I am going to have to focus this a lot more.
Here are some potentially helpful resources through TCL:
Global Books In Print (though it may return way too many search results)
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (which I am very comfortable with!)
Books and Authors (pretty self-explanatory)
Wilson Core Collections
One way that I could focus in is by looking at the war books that have won awards in the past 60 years. By narrowing in on the Caldecott winners, I am guaranteed to get picture books... plus it might be interesting how many of the selections are about war.
This website lists the books without description so I can just look up these titles in World Cat (which was the best source to check out the descriptions in compared to Amazon & Children's Literature Comprehensive Database)
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal.cfm#60s
Just to see if this would be a good gauge- I looked up the titles for 50-53 and found one pertaining to war (called America's Ethan Allen- a biography of the patriot and soldier who led the Green Mountain Boys in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775).
Isn't it interesting the challenges that 'we' face as we try to make our research interests fit with the real world of the way things work/are/etc.
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