Links: General Resources

• Margaret Vail Anderson's Children's Literature section of her Digital Librarian pages (active, growing, and quite extensive collection of links, updated regularly) 


• Authors & Illustrators for Children ("an organization of authors & illustrators of children's books (and their friends) dedicated to creating a better world for children") 


• Bibliographies: Children's Literature Resource Guide (at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education) 


• Booktrusted.co.uk ("for all those concerned with what children read") 


• Alan Brown's Just for Kids Who Love Books 


• David K. Brown's Children's Literature Web Guide, including several pages of links to Children's Authors and Illustrators on the Web. Not updated as frequently as it once was, but still good. 


• Canadian Illustrated Books in English (University of British Columbia) 


• Kathleen Duey's list of over 4,000 Children's Bookstores 


• Eleanor's Books' Children's Books Central ("Your guide to children's books on the Web") 


• Children and Young People page by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK) 


• Children's Book Council 


• Fairrosa's CyberLibrary of Children's Literature, featuring Children's Literature -- Authors & Illustrators (a good collection of links). 


• Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD Company) 


• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site 


• Children's Peace and Non-Violence Curriculum (Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse) 


• Alta Murrieta Elementary School Library's Click & Go Authors 


• International Children's Digital Library 


• International Reading Association 


• Internet School Library Media Center's Index to Children's Book Authors and Illustrators 


• Kansas State University Libraries: Children's Literature Subject Guide 


• Marxists Internet Archive's Children's Literature pages, featuring an Annotated Bibliography, Texts and Illustrations, and Resources and Reference. 


• Mary Helen Lewis' Only the Best for My Child: A Bibliography of Children's Picturebooks Featuring Powerful, Positive Female Characters (Courtesy of the Wayback Machine)


• New York Public Library's Children's Literature site 


• New York Public Library's On-Lion for Kids! 


• New York Times Book Review's Children's Books (index of reviews since January 1997) 


• Deidre Johnson's 19th Century Girls' Series site 


• Sharyn November's children's books page, including Authors A-E, Authors F-J, Authors K-O, Authors P-S, and Authors T-Z 


• Denise Ortakales' Women Children's Book Illustrators site. Recommended. 


• Cynthia Leitich Smith's Children's Literature Resources 


• Jim Trelease's Trelease-on-reading.com 


• Harold Underdown's The Purple Crayon and great page of Children's Book Resources (useful pages with good links) 


• Kay E. Vandergrift's Learning About the Author and Illustrator Pages -- highly recommended. May be the most extensive collection of links on the web. 


• Susie Wilde's Wilde Writing Works 


• Yahoo's Literature Pages: Genre -- Children's