Links: Academic

• ABC-Lit: An Index to Children's Literature Scholarship (database, still in progress...) 


• The ALAN Review (journal) 


• Banned Books Week, sponsored by the American Library Association. Includes links to the Top 100 Challenged Books, 1990-2000, and information on Challenged and Banned Books 


• CHILD_LIT listserv, maintained by Michael Joseph, whose site includes an E Directory of Scholars of Literature for Children and Young Adults, a list of Journals that publish articles on children's literature theory and criticism, the Newbery Classroom Home, and more. Recommended. 


• Children's Literature Association 


• Children's Literature Association Quarterly (the scholarly journal, ed. Richard Flynn) 


• Children's Literature (monthly newsletter that reviews children's books) 


• Early Childhood Research & Practice (journal) 


• Image [&] Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative (journal, published by the Institute for Cultural Studies) 


• The Lion and the Unicorn (journal, published by Johns Hopkins UP) 


• The Looking Glass (journal) 


• Marvels & Tales (journal) 


• Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (conference) 


• Monitoring the Future ("a continuing study of American youth") 


• Leonard S. Marcus (homepage of the children's book historian and author) 


• Perry Nodelman's Home Page (scholar and Y.A. novelist, University of Winnipeg) 


• Radical Change (book and critical approach by Eliza T. Dresang) 


• Anita Silvey (homepage of the children's book scholar and editor) 


• "Head injuries in nursery rhymes: evidence of a dangerous subtext in children's literature" by Sarah M. Giles and Sarah Shea. Parody at Canadian Medical Association Journal 169[12] (9 Dec. 2003):1294-96.