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How to find Children's books about certain countries

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Finding Children's Books: International Focus

1. Use both the country and nationality in your search. Combine with capital OR and use parenthesis.

Netherlands OR Dutch

Try this search before moving on to step 2. 

2. If needed, add the genre such as one of the following, connected with AND to create a search strand:

  • tales
  • folktales
  • fairy tales
  • legends
  • stories
  • fiction

(Netherlands OR Dutch) AND stories

3. Select UW-Whitewater, and limit your search by location to the Curriculum Collection areas. 

screenshot of search for (Netherlands OR Dutch) AND stories, with books, media, & more selected


4. Too few results? Select UW-System instead. Click Use Get It to Request and follow the prompts to place a UW Request.

screenshot of search result for The Dutch Twins with text to request circled

Reference books and bibliographies can often point you to children's books about different cultures.

Click the titles below to locate or access these resources. They provide lists of children's books by topic.

Reference Titles for Multicultural/International Children's Books

These books contain listings of children's books by country. 

Many other reference books in the PN1009 section will contain indexes of titles by country. Search the index by country name or search for "Foreign lands", for example "Foreign lands - Mexico."