Notable Children's Literature Sites

 

General Web Sites | ALA Book Awards | Other Children's Book Awards | Research Centers | Authors and Illustrators | Associations and Organizations | Electronic Journals | Other Electronic Resources |

General Web Sites

• The Children's Literature Web Guide: The most comprehensive guide to children's literature resources on the web. The site includes information on award-winning books and new publications, as well as resources for teachers and parents. Also includes links to publisher, bookseller and author web sites.
• Kay Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page: An excellent resource that covers all genres of children's literature.
• de Grummond Children's Literature Collection: The web site for one of the leading children's literature collections and research centers. Site contains virtual exhibits of some of the collection's materials.
• Fairrosa Cyber Library: This site includes articles, book reviews, a discussion forum and a special page devoted to Lewis Carroll.
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: A great resource for book reviews and ideas for incorporating literature into the classroom curriculum.
• Internet School Library Media Center
• Once Upon a Time...A Children's Literature Web Site -- by Mary Ellen Van Camp at Ball State University

American Library Association Book Awards

• Caldecott Medal Home Page
• Coretta Scott King Award
• Newbery Medal Home Page

Other Children's Book Awards

• YBP's List of Children's Book Awards

Research Centers

• Reading About Children's Literature: A Bibliography of Criticism -- by Perry Nodelman
• Social History of Children's Literature -- Kay Vandergrift
• de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
• The Center for Children's Books - from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Authors and Illustrators

• Authors and Illustrators on the Web -- by David Brown
• Fairrosa Cyber Library
• Index to Internet Sites: Children's and Young Adults' Authors and Illustrators -- by Inez Ramsey at James Madison University
• Children's Literature -- an electronic and print book review source
• National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature - a museum for original art from children's picturebooks that also provides educational programming that relating to illustrations in children's literature

Associations and Organizations

• AASL
• ALSC
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College
• Children's Book Council (CBC)
• Children's Literature Assembly (CLA)
• Children's Literature Association
• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)

Electronic Journals

• Book Links
• Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
• Children's Literature
• Horn Book
• School Library Journal

Other Electronic Resources