How to Understand our Book Pages - The Details

When you go to our book page, we provide you with up to ten important details about the work.

YEAR PUBLISHED

 

This was the year the publisher released the book to the world.

There is only one year published for each edition of a particular book.

Here is an example from our book page for The Island's True Child (2003):

CIRCA

 

This means the date listed is approximate. That is because the exact year published is not known.

Here is an example from our book page for Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1950):

TYPE

 

We indicate the type of book we referenced for each book page. We keep track of 27 Types.

Peruse our Types by scrolling through this list:

Activity Book

Blank Book

Board Book

Book with Record/CD/Tape

Box set

Calendar

Card book

Catalog cover

Cloth book

Coloring book

Foldout book

Hardcover

Moveable

Panels

Panorama

Periodicals

Play

Pop-Up

Portfolio

Poster

Shape book

Softcover

Stamp book

Sticker book

ebook

Scans online

Toy book

Here is an example from our book page for Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1950):

GENRE

 

All books are either non-fiction or fiction.

Those two types of books can be further divided into many different sub-types, called "genres."

A Genre is a category of book based on stylistic criteria such as tone, content, or setting. There are many Genre of books. We provide more than 150 Genre.

Peruse our Genre by scrolling through this list:

AAA

ABCs/Numbers/Colors/Words

Adventure

African

African American

Airplanes

American

American Indian

Animal Fantasy

Art and Architecture

Australian

 

BBB

Babies

Bears

Biblical

Biography

Board Book

Boarding School

Boy Scouts

Boys Growing Up

British

 

CCC

Calendar

Camping

Canadian

Cats

Circus

Comic Strip

Cookbook

 

DDD

Dogs

Dolls

 

EEE

Engineering

Epic

Essays

Etiquette

European

Exhibition Catalog

Exploration – America

Exploration – Polar

Exploration – Africa

 

FFF

Fables

Fables (La Fontaine/Aesop)

Fairy Tales – Classic

Fairy Tales – Modern

Families

Fantasy – miscellaneous

Fantasy – American

Fantasy – English

Far East

Farm Life

Fiction – novel

Fiction – short story

Folk Tales

 

GGG

Games

Geography

Ghosts and Ghouls

Girls Growing Up

Gods and Heroes – Greek

Gods and Heroes – Norse

Gods and Heroes – Roman

 

HHH

Health

Historical Fiction – Age of Exploration

Historical Fiction – Ancient

Historical Fiction – Civil War

Historical Fiction – Colonial

Historical Fiction – Crusades

Historical Fiction – Egyptian

Historical Fiction – Greek

Historical Fiction – Middle Ages

Historical Fiction – Napoleonic Wars

Historical Fiction – Pioneers

Historical Fiction – Renaissance

Historical Fiction – Revolutionary

Historical Fiction – Roman

Historical Fiction – Vikings

Historical Fiction – World War I

Historical Fiction – World War II

History – American

History – Ancient

History – British

History – European

History – French

History – German

History – Irish

History – Medieval

History – Scotch

Hobbies

Holidays

Horses

How-To

Humorous

 

III

Irish

 

JJJ

Japanese

 

KKK

King Arthur

 

LLL

Letters

 

MMM

Magic

Mexican

Mice

Monsters

Mystery

Myth

 

NNN

Nature – Amphibians and Reptiles

Nature – Birds

Nature – Dinosaurs

Nature – Fish

Nature – Flowers

Nature – Insects

Nature – Mammals

Nature – Plants

Nature – Trees

Nonsense

Nursery Rhymes

 

OOO

Orphans

 

PPP

Paper Dolls

Pets

Picture Book

Pioneers

Play

Poetry – Ballads

Poetry – Epic

Poetry – Humorous

Poetry – Lyric

Poetry- Miscellaneous

 

RRR

Reference

Religious

Robin Hood

Robinsonnade

Romance

Running away Home

 

SSS

Science Fiction

Sea Stories

School – kindergarten

School – grade school

School – high school

School – college

Science – Astronomy

Science – Biology

Science – Geography

Science – Mathematics

Science – Palaeontology

Science – Physics

Science – Chemistry

Social Studies

Songs

South American

Sports – Baseball

Sports – Basketball

Sports – Football

Sports – Field

Sports – Miscellaneous

 

TTT

Toy Book

Toys

Trains

Travel and Exploration

Trucks/Cars/Big Machines

True Life Animal

 

VVV

Vocational

 

YYY

Young Entrepreneur

 

ZZZ

Zoo

 

Here is an example from our book page for A Matter of Pride (1959):

AGE RANGE

 

The Age Range is our estimate of the age of child that a given book will appeal to.

We have five Age Ranges:

  • Ages 1-5: Picture Books
  • Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books
  • Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
  • Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
  • Ages 13-18: Young Adult

Here is an example from our book page for A Matter of Pride (1959):

PAGES

 

This is the number of pages in the print book.

Here is an example from our book page for A Matter of Pride (1959):

ISBN-10

 

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. In the early years, each ISBN had ten digits. Those numbers are referred to as ISBN-10.

Here is an example from our book page for Half Magic (1954):

ISBN-13

 

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. In more recent years, each ISBN has 13 digits. Those numbers are referred to as ISBN-13.

Here is an example from our book page for Half Magic (1954):

LCCN

 

The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a serially-based system of numbering cataloged records in the Library of Congress in the United States.

Here is an example from our book page for Half Magic (1954):

OCLC

 

OCLC is an American nonprofit cooperative organization. Their online database, called WorldCat, is widely used by the general public and by librarians for cataloging and research.

Here is an example from our book page for Half Magic (1954):

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