FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marilyn Courtot CLCD Company, LLC (301) 469-2070 1-800-508-5782 marilyn@childrenslit.com CLCD ADDS BRITISH REVIEW SOURCE May 15, 2006 - The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Company, LLC (CLCD) is pleased to announce that reviews from Books for Keeps, the UK's leading magazine about the children's book industry, are now accessible through CLCD. Books for Keeps was launched in 1980 and currently has a readership of over 45,000 worldwide. The journal reviews over 1,000 children's books each year including fiction, poetry and nonfiction, paperback and hardback. Reviews are organized into helpful teaching ranges with special Editor's Choice and New Talent slots which aim to support fresh, original writing and illustrating for children. "With so many titles published simultaneously and consecutively in the US and the UK it seems only natural that we participate in the CLCD. Our subscriber base is quite similar: librarians, teachers, publishers, university students and professors," states Richard Hill, Managing Director of Books for Keeps. "One of our goals is to broaden our base for our international clientele. In addition to the wide range of quality reviews from American sources the CLCD also includes reviews from Resource Links and Canadian Review of Materials (Canada), Inis (Ireland), and Lollipops - What's on For Kids (Australia). We are delighted that we can now offer our subscribers access to these fine reviews from the UK. In expanding our scope we open new avenues for all our subscribers," adds Marilyn Courtot, President of the CLCD Company, LLC. For subscriptions to The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) in the UK contact EBSCO. 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 About Books For Keeps In its journal form, Books for Keeps also publishes articles about every aspect of children's books - reading them, teaching them, promoting them, producing them and assessing them. There are practical how-to-do-it articles and regular news of what's happening in the children's book world. In 1996 Books for Keeps won the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished services to children's books. ###