Children & Young Adult Literature 

Updated monthly.

The Faculty of Education Resource Centre holds an extensive collection of children and young adult fiction and non-fiction material in both French and English. This collection is international in scope and includes essential litterature classics as well as contemporary titles that are delighting young people today. The FERC collects children's books that are relevant to all areas of the K-12 curriculum.

The University of Ottawa Library Online Catalog is used to find titles availabe at the Faculty of Education Resource Centre (FERC)

• Use the title and author search when you wish to locate a specific title.
• The bibliographic record of the book will contain the information you need to locate it on the shelves
• The keyword search screen will allow you to create more complexe searches combining fields such as keyword and subject to find results relevant to your topic.Some useful subjects for finding children's literature are: children's literature, juvenile fiction, children's stories, juvenile poetry, and folklore.
• You can limit your results to materials found at the Faculty of Education Resource Centre.

For additional help, consult the help guide for the catalogue.

The children and young adult literature collections are located in clearly identified sections of the Resource Centre. Books are shelved according to age group for which the material is appropriate and by author.

There is one exception to this shelving system: the fairytales. They are located near the children literature area and are catalogued using the 398 class of the Dewey Decimal System.