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To locate books for infants and toddlers in URSUS click on the tab.
Now click on URSUS in blue.
Now limit URSUS in the drop down menu to Children’s Materials.
This will limit the search to children’s books and young adult books.
Let us say you are interested in books related to children’s development of the ability to communicate emotions.
Two search words that might be used are feelings and emotions.
To search for either of these terms enter feelings OR emotions into the search box.
The first book that comes up is called The Science of Emotions.
You can see that this book cover has photographs of children that are much older than
infants and toddlers, so it is unlikely that this book is appropriate for our age group.
The second book listed is The Pigeon has Feelings too!
The note says it is a board book in which the pigeon expresses a variety of emotions.
If you click on More Information you can check for book reviews.
The review from School Library Journal lists preschool as the target age for this book.
There are two copies of this book in URSUS.
One is in the Learning Materials Collection at UMaine and the other is in Farmington. To get
the book in the Learning Materials Collection, write down call number. If Fogler’s copy is not
available you can have the other copy sent to UMaine by clicking on the Request link.
If you have more questions please contact me.