Youth Collection Book Lists and Class Resources
These lists contain great books on a variety of topics to meet your personal or course needs.
Library Guides for the UNI Youth Collection
Topics in the Youth Collection
This master list contains book titles and descriptions of various issues as framed in children's literature. The purpose of this list is to facilitate cultural competence in pre-service teachers.
The following library guides enable faculty and students to explore various sociopolitical issues in children's literature. These guides supplement the Topics in the Youth Collection master list.
- Alphabet Books by Developmental Stage
- Articulation Therapy: Picture Book List
- Bibliotherapy: Wellness in Picture Books
- Early & Emergent Readers (sorted by developmental stage)
- Finding Diverse Children's and Young Adult Literature
- LGBTQ+ Literature
- Mental Health in Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Metafictional Picture Books (books that know they're books)
- Science (LibGuide for L. McCartney's Teaching Elementary Science Class)
- Social Stories: book lists to preview common childhood experiences (going to the doctor, sleepovers, manners, etc.)
- Thanksgiving Stories
Variations on Favorite Stories (versions of fairy tales and folk tales)
Book Awards
- National Award-Winning Books
- Iowa Goldfinch Award list of winners
- Iowa Children's Choice Award list of winners
- Iowa Teen Award list of winners
- Iowa High School Book Award list of winners
Course Resources
- 110 Books for Elementary Social Studies (update for Spring 2022)
- Social-Emotional Learning book list for Art Education (created for Wendy Miller's class, Fall 2021)
- 100 Books for Elementary Social Studies (created for Linda McCartney's class, Fall 2021)
- Recent International Picture Books & Graphic Novels (created for Taraneh Matloob's LITED 3121 class, updated Fall 2019)
- Traumatic/Disruptive Childhood Experiences in Picture Books (created for Children's Literature for Diversity & Social Justice / LITED 3121, Fall 2020)
- Creating Classroom Cultures of Compassion and Connection (created for Children's Literature for Diversity & Social Justice / LITED 3121, Fall 2020)
- 65 Books for Elementary Social Studies (created for Irenea Watson and Linda McCartney's classes, Fall 2018)
- 59 Books for Elementary Social Studies (created for Linda McCartney's class, Fall 2017)
- 51 Books for Elementary Social Studies (created for Nancy White's class, Spring 2017)
- Human Relations Book Lists LibGuide (created for Kathy Oakland's classes, Fall 2016; updated 2017)
General Information
- Resources & Services for Book Challenges
- Identifying Frequently Challenged/Banned Books
- Three Ways to Find Book Reviews for Youth Books (updated Fall 2021)
- Finding Wordless Picture Books (updated Spring 2020)