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Children's Literature • Authors & Illustrators: Last Name K - O

This guide is a starting point for children and YA author and illustrator resources.

Juvenile Collection

Browsing the Collection

Juvenile fiction falls under the Library of Congress subject heading P, language and literature; specifically PZ for general juvenile fiction. To help browse the collection, signs are posted in the stacks.  The table below is a similar to available signs, featuring frequently used subject headings for juvenile books. 


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Class P Language & Literature
   
  Subclass Description
  PE English Language
    1155 Alphabet Books
    1591 Juvenile Thesaurus
    1628 Juvenile Dictionaries
       
  PN Literature (General)
    6110 Poetry Anthology
    6371 Riddles
    6727 Graphic Novels Categorized for YA Readers
       
  PR English Literature
      Individual Authors: Poetry, Prose, Drama
       
  PS American Literature
      Individual Authors: Poetry, Prose, Drama
       
  PZ Fiction & Juvenile
    PZ 5 Collections
    PZ 6 Early to 1860 / 1870
    PZ 7 Juvenile Fiction
    PZ 7.1 Juvenile Fiction *
    PZ 7.5 Novels in verse
    PZ 7.7 Graphic Novels Categorized for Young Readers
    PZ 8 Fairy Tales
    PZ 8.1 Folklore, Legends, Romance
    PZ 8.2 Fables
    PZ 8.3 Stories in Rhyme, Nursery Rhymes
    PZ 10.3 Animal Stories
    PZ 23 Languages, French
    PZ 73 Languages, Spanish

 

* Authors who began to publish from 1870 through 2014 are classed in PZ7. Authors who began to publish in 2015 and later are classified in PZ7.1. (LOC Classification, 2014).

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