How to Find Books in the Catalog
Finding Specific Types of Books
Looking for a specific type of children’s book? Let Dewey come to your rescue.
The Dewey Decimal System categorizes books by subject: In particular, the numbers from 800 to 899 are reserved for literature while 390 to 399 are for customs and folklore. Use the following Dewey numbers to find the types of children’s books you need.
|390–399||Customs, Etiquette, & Folklore|
|810–819||American Literature in English|
|811||American Poetry in English|
|820–829||English & Old English Literature|
|860–869||Spanish, Portuguese, & Galician Literature|
Databases of Children’s Nonfiction
These collections contain nonfiction works aimed at younger readers.