Developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
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In August 2025, all TeachingBooks accounts with @indiana.edu email addresses were updated to @iu.edu email addresses. No further action is needed.
A comprehensive online readers' advisory tool. Search hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more.
Content is crafted by librarians and reading authorities who are experts in the field.
Reviews of thousands of children's and young adult books, videos and software, with full MARC catalog records.
Includes critical reviews of children's books, videos and software, ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. CLCD is not affiliated with any publisher and accepts no advertising. Children's Literature reviewers are book authors, librarians, writers and editors, teachers, children's literature specialists and physicians. Also includes entries for more than 200,000 awards, prizes, best book list and reading list entries.
On August 21, 2025, CLCD support updated all active CLCD accounts using @indiana.edu email addresses to use @iu.edu email addresses. No further action is needed.