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For collection development, readers’ advisory, and curriculum support. Children's Core Collection covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, graphic novels, and magazines recommended for readers in preschool through sixth grade. Professional literature for the children's librarian, both periodicals and books, is also covered. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available. The catalog also includes an annotated list of recommended web resources for children and professionals working with children.

New features in Children's Core Collection are the coverage of graphic novels, and recommendations of periodicals for children and professionals.

Selected and recommended by specialists in library service to children, listed books encompass a wide variety of topics, including a new abundance of books on technology, social sciences, and sciences.

About Bowker's Book Analysis System™

Online Format: an annual subscription on WilsonWeb

Children’s Core Collection on WilsonWeb brings you all the rich content available in the print edition, but with the convenience of enhanced online search capabilities. All the content of the new 19th Edition is already available on WilsonWeb! Search over 13,000 titles (including over 3,000 analytical entries for parts of collections or anthologies) in one easy-to-use database. Additional entries are seamlessly incorporated into the database as new books are added to the Catalog. 

Search by:

• Keyword

• Publication Year

• Title

• ISBN

• Subject

• ISSN

• Publisher

• Document Type: Books, Book Chapter, CD-ROM

• Author

• Dewey Decimal Classification Number

Additional features, available exclusively on WilsonWeb, make Children’s Core Collection even more valuable for collection development and curriculum support:

• Entries link to additional review excerpts from Wilson’s Book Review Digest Plus database.

• Retrieve records in machine-readable MARC format.

• Instantly check your library’s holdings via a link to your OPAC.

• Search descriptive and critical annotations for specific words.

• Search simultaneously with other Wilson Core Collections or other Wilson databases, including Readers’ Guide.

• Now updated continuously on WilsonWeb—no need to wait for annual printed updates to get the latest information on new books.

Online Format: Annual subscription on WilsonWeb.
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Print Format: 4-year service

Order now and you receive the hardcover main volume as soon as it is published in October 2006. The paper supplements will be sent to you in 2007, 2008, 2009.

Children’s Catalog, 19th Edition brings you over 8,500 entries in the main volume (2006), more than 5,000 new titles since the previous edition was published. Some 2,200 new titles in annual paperbound supplements published 2007 through 2009.

Each book includes the following:

• Classified Catalog
  Features entries by Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification, with separate sections for nonfiction, fiction, short story collections, and easy books (picture books for children from pre-school to grade three).

• List of Recommended Web Resources
  Guides you to both subscription databases and free websites, including such handy information as the publisher’s name and telephone number, price, grade level and URL.

• Author, Title, Subject and Analytical Index
  Includes author, title, subject, and analytical entries; added entries for publishers’ series, illustrators, joint authors, and editors of works entered under title; and name and subject cross-references, all arranged in one alphabet. Notations with each listing indicate where the main entry for the book will be found.

Print Format: 4-year service
(Includes hardcover volume plus 3 annual paperbound supplements)
◘ $195
◘ $210 (outside the U.S. and Canada)
◘ ISBN 0-8242-1073-5
◘ Hardcover volume: October, 2006, 1,250 pages
◘ Paperback supplements: 2007, 2008, 2009, each approximately 170 pages