Children's Literature
Children’s Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
This web site contains various links to such topics as: authors and illustrators on the web, children’s book awards, journal and book reviews, teaching ideas for children’s books and stories on the web.
Kay Vandergrift’s Children’s Literature Page
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ChildrenLit/
Kay Vandergrift is a professor at Rutgers University School of Communication and Library Science. Her web site provides a thorough look at many aspects of children’s literature.
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection is one of North America's leading research centers in the field of children's literature. This web page provides information about the collection which focuses on American and British children's literature, historical and contemporary.
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children’s Literature
This web site provides quite a bit of information on children’s literature, authors and illustrators, books reviews and discussions.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This is a collection of reviews of great books for children, ideas on how to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
Internet School Library Media Center
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/litgen.htm#A
Dr. Inez Ramsey, Professor Emeritus of James Madison University, has provided a wealth of information including bibliographies, a storytelling handbook, and links to many children’s literature and language arts sites.
Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Children’s Literature Resources
http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/index1.htm
Author Cynthia Leitich Smith’s web page provides a number of links to children’s literature resources, specifically mentioning multi-cultural and ethnic materials. It also contains a section on writing for children and young adults.
African Children’s Literature
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/children.htm
Lillian Temu Osaki from the University of Florida provides an introduction to African children’s literature. The site includes information about authors, a short bibliography and links to other web sites about African children’s literature.
Children’s Literature (19th Century)
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/kidlit/kidlit/kidlit.html
Originally exhibited at Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina, Children’s Literature chiefly from the Nineteenth Century, the text and pictures on this web site show the growth and transformation of children’s literature in the 1800’s.
American Library Association/Association for Library Service to Children
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/awardsscholarships.htm
The newest information on children’s book awards, including the Newberry and Caldecott Medals, can be found on the Association for Library Service to Children web site.
Yahoo! Directory Children's Literature
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Children_s/
Yahoo presents an organized list of useful sites dealing with children’s literature.
The Horn Book
This is the home page of The Horn Book Inc. which publishes the Horn Book Magazine and the Horn Book Guide. Reviews of children's books, articles and interviews of authors and illustrators, and a history of the Horn Book are available on this site. Also included is a listing of all Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winners since 1967.
Aesop’s Fables Online
This online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of more than 655 fables which are indexed in table format, with morals listed.
Amazon.com Book Search
This searchable database is the Web’s closest equivalent to Books in Print.
Children’s Book Council
The Children’s Book Council (CBC) is a non-profit trade organization which encourages literacy and the use and enjoyment of children’s books. Their home page provides an online catalog from which readers can order books or posters as well as information on writing and illustrating children’s books.
The Library of Congress Children’s Literature Center
The Children's Literature Center serves organizations and individuals who study, produce, collect, interpret, and disseminate children's books, films, television programs, or other forms of materials regarding children's material, usually outside the classroom. Reference service is available by email or visit to the center.
The National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature
The National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (NCRCL) facilitates and supports research exchange in the field of children's literature. This website provides information about (primarily UK) resources, activities, and individuals, and links to useful World Wide Web sites.
Internet Public Library – Kidspace
http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/browse/rzn0000
The Reading Zone has links to on-line stories for children and information about their favorite books and authors.
HarperCollins Children’s Books
http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/
This web page has resources for parents, children, teachers and librarians. It includes a section on teen reading.
Kathy Schrocks Guide for Educators - Literature and Language Arts
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html
The site contains a number of well researched links to children's language arts resources.
Scholastic Home Page
http://www.scholastic.com/sitemap.htm
A guide to all that scholastic has to offer to children, parents, teachers and librarians.
SimonSaysKid.com
The home page of Simon & Schuster offers information for educators, parents and booksellers.
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/
This Random House web page has links to their many series for children, including Golden Books.
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