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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marilyn Courtot CLCD Company, LLC (301) 469-2070 1-800-508-5782 marilyn@childrenslit.com October 29, 2004 - The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database, LLC (CLCD) announces the inclusion of links to curriculum tools. These are lesson plans and teaching guides on children's books, authors and illustrators from a variety of sources. Publishers such as Farrar Straus & Giroux, Harcourt, HarperCollins, Orca Book Publishers, Scholastic and the Houghton Mifflin trade division have already provided information to facilitate access their teaching guides. Other sources include children's book authors, children's literature specialists, and teachers. The first of these were added to the database in October, with hundreds to be added over the next few months and updates will be made whenever new items are identified for inclusion. A section called "Curriculum Tools" will appear on the full display page along with the book reviews, author and illustrator web site information, awards, honors and prizes, reading lists and reading measurement programs, MARC records, subject headings, and book jacket images. Records with associated "Curriculum Tools" will be identified, and you will be able to search for them. Marilyn Courtot, President of the CLCD, states, "We have had many requests from library and educational professionals for these curriculum tools, and we are delighted with the response that we have received from publishers and other teaching guide and lesson plan creators. With this most recent addition, the CLCD is certainly the key place to turn for information about children's and young adult materials." About The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), is an Internet based acquisition, research, and reference service, offering more than one million MARC records and over 200,000 reviews of children's books, multimedia, audio books, etc. from 33 sources including The ALAN Review, Booklist, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, CCBC Choices, The Five Owls, The Horn Book Guide, Audio Reviews, Inis, KIRKUS Reviews, KLIATT,, Resource Links, Science Books & Films and VOYA. Subscribers can search for specific titles, authors, subjects and see the associated reviews, prepare annotated lists/bibliographies, and locate and download MARC records. CLCD also contains jacket images and has thousands of links to author and illustrator web features. In addition to the review data, the CLCD database has information about thousands of books that have been recognized as having particular merit. There are over 260,000 entries identifying these select books. National, state and international awards back to the first Newbery in 1922. There are over 60 best books lists, plus all state reading lists. The reading measurement parameters of the Accelerated Reader, Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile and Reading Counts have been incorporated into the basic bibliographic record for each evaluated book. The CLCD is on the web at www.childrenslit.com ###
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