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Reviews for Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies: A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography

$49.50	Paper	Feb 2007	0-8108-5874-6 / 978-0-8108-5874-9	298pp

"a useful place to start for people interested in children and childhood studies."—March 2008, ARBA

"...each chapter contains valuable information on the scholarly process that all undergraduate researchers will find useful...this accessible guide will be a practical addition to undergraduate research collections. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower/upper-level undergraduates."—Choice

"Scholars and academic librarians offer a guide to useful resources for literature searches in the emerging interdisciplinary field of children and childhood studies (CCS). Bowman (reference librarian, Rutgers U.-Camden, New Jersey) presents a definition of CCS, a brief history of the field, and scholarly research and writing basics. Contributors offer perspectives, research tips, and annotated resources from fields including the social sciences, art, education, and English, but excluding medicine and law. A sample paper titled "Collodi's Pinocchio: Biblical and Cultural Rites of Passage" on the theme of the prodigal son is appended."—May 2007, REFERENCE & RESEARCH BOOK NEWS