Children's Literature: Databases

"CLCD’s Enterprise PreK-12 is a comprehensive resource to locate and research children’s literature books and media spanning from beginning to young adult readers. The service combines over a 1.3M title dB including valuable supporting content of over 600K professional reviews, 1.25K award sources representing 110K book awards, reading measurement programs, author links plus lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers multiple options including 50 search filters for locating materials to determine interest and reading levels including a 18 STEM terms search feature. Excellent teaching tool to assist in selecting trade books based on standards; creating thematic reading lists, annotated biographies; interpreting reviews; developing classroom collections and more."

Primary Search is a go to database for elementary school age magazine and journal articles. This database is specifically geared towards elementary schools. All articles have reading level assigned to them in the form of Lexils. Please see below for Primary Search's lexil chart:

Index of hundreds of teaching, education, curriculum dev.titles
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Contains a wealth of essential material for learning and research across the disciplines, including peer-reviewed articles.

JSTOR is a interdisciplinary database of full text journals.