The Children's & Young Adult Literature Collection in the James E. Brooks Library is provided as a resource for students in CWU's teacher education programs, as well as for children and other interested members of our community. This collection includes literature for a variety of ages from beginning readers to young adults. An important role of this collection is to support CWU's School of Education by providing students with access to a diverse collection of children's literature that can be used to practice teaching and developing curriculum.
Special attention is put into making sure the Children's & Young Adult Literature Collection represents a wide range of topics, time frames, authors, and styles. Individual materials include historical children's books, classic children's stories, picture books, young adult and chapter books, comics, fairy tales, fiction, non-fiction, and books written in multiple languages from authors around the world. The Children's & Young Adult Literature Collection also contains notable award winning children's books from several categories. For a list of recent award wining children's books you can check out the Notable Children's Book Awards section below.
We are excited to share the collection with you, and encourage you to reach out to a librarian or library staff if you have any additional questions or need help findings a specific resource!
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