Subject Guides: Language and Early Literacy: Finding Children's literary awards books

Finding Books that have received Children's Literature Awards at Trexler Library

To search Trexler Library’s “Encompass” Search for books awarded various Children’s Literature Prizes, follow these instructions.

Use a “keyword” search in Encompass by entering kw: and then the name of the award in quotes.

Note that the searches will get you books and articles about the awards as well as the books themselves.

On the results page, you can filter by
1. format (i.e. Print or electronic)
2. Whether it is held by Muhlenberg
3. Sort or filter by date

The links below after "Search in Encompass" will take you directly to the search in the catalog.

The search will include only Print books, but you can expand to ebooks if you want.
To limit to only books held by Trexler Library use the Filter on the left side to check “Muhlenberg College Trexler Library”

Newbery Award (NOTE: Newbery has only one r)

Search in Encompass kw:"Newbery Award"

Caldecott Award

Orbis Pictus Award

Search in Encompass kw:"Orbis pictus"

Coretta Scott King Award

Scott O’Dell award

Pura Belpre award

Michael L. Printz award

Search in Encompass kw:"Printz award"

To locate books in the following two categories you will need to identify the book you want, then search by title

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