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Children's Literature

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Argot Library

ACHUKA Childrens' Books UK

Aesop Fables from Classics at the Online Literature Library

Alice in Wonderland An interactive Adventure

An Animated History of Books
from 50000BC to the Future. From the BBC

Authors An edsites links list

Best Books of the Year
The Children's Literature Web Guide provides a list of notable books for children from the American Library Association, Booklist Editor's Choice, Blue Ribbon Books, Publisher's Weekly, and the International Reading Association.

The Best Children's Literature on the Net
A compilation of links to available texts of the best works of literature for children and young adults

Bibliomania
Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, and research texts

Book Units including lesson plans. An edsites links list

The Bookhive
A database of children's book reviews from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Bookworm Great books for kids 6-12

Books for Children Edmonds School District US

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Bunyips
An exhibition that reveals the legends surrounding one of Australia's special creatures and highlights one of the few Indigenous Dreaming stories to cross cultures. This extensive interactive web site from the National Library of Australia offers information and illustrations about bunyips. The exhibition contains: Aboriginal Stories; Fun and Games; Evidence; Imagination; and Education material in .pdf format for all KLAs at Lower Primary, Upper Primary and Secondary levels

Carol Hurst's Literature Site

CHILDE - Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe
Contains over 1,000 images from children's books from collections in England, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany. Images are searchable by author, title, illustrator, catagory and free text. A project, funded under the European Commission's Culture 2000 program

Children's Author and Illustrator Links
A links list from The Shy Librarian

Children's Book Council of Australia

Children's Books At About.com

Children's Books Central

Children's Literature New Mexico State University Library Gopher

Children's Literature
Includes Reading Aloud Nonfiction, Readers Theatre with K-2 Students, Mini-Lessons for Helping Children Learn from Nonfiction Texts, Semantic Mapping, Group Summarizing and Exemplary Science Books for Grades K-3. From Project Primary

Children's Literature
Historical Children's Literature Collection at Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina

Children's Literature Activities for the Classroom

Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources
Internet School Library Media Center

Childrens Literature Collections
State Library of Victoria Exhibition

Childrens' Literature Internet Field Trip
Provides quick suggestions for using targeted Web sites to teach a specific topic. From Scholastic

Children's Literature Online
New Mexico State University Library Gopher

Children's Literature Ring

The Children's Literature Web Guide
David K. Brown, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
Contains abstracts of over 4000 picture books for children, preschool to grade 3. Search over 900 keywords (topics, concepts, and skills) to locate books with storylines adaptable to your curriculum or program

Children's Storybooks Online

Cinderella books An edsites links list

The Classic Bookshelf Children's Books
Search for online books for children

Classics for Young People
Online classics listed at The Children's Literature Web Guide

Database of Award-winning Children's Literature
Includes Caldecott, Newberry, Jane Addams, Coretta Scott King, ALA Noteable, Carnegie Medal, and Kate Greenway Medal awards. Searchable by age level, genre, award, publication date, format, setting, historical period or keyword

Dr Seuss books

Fairrosa Cyber Library of Childrens' Literature
Created and Maintained by Roxanne Hsu Feldman, Senior Middle School Librarian, the Dalton School

Folk and Fairy Tales An edsites links list

Handbook for Storytellers

Harry Potter links An edsites links list

History of Children's Books and Other Media
The History of Education and Childhood

History of Children's Literature by Kay E. Vandergrift

The Hockliffe Project
Contains digitized versions of about 100 late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British books for children. Created by Matthew Grenby at De Montfort University

The International Children's Digital Library
This Library is currently being built by The Internet Archive, the largest library of the Internet, and The University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab, a leader in children's interface design, supported by a grant from The National Science Foundation. Through The Children's Library, children from around the world will be able to participate in the largest bookmobile ever. Focusing on the inherent promise of the Internet, to provide direct and global access to information, anytime, The Children's Library will digitize 100,000 books and make them available through out the world.
The Children's Library seeks help on the next phase of development:
1. Create a coalition of librarians, authors, publishers, children advocates, educators, philanthropists and technologists to leverage their expertise and knowledge.
2. Organize a Coalition summit to identify tangible goals, exiting barriers, strategies for achievement, and funding possibilities
3. Establish a working Board of Directors

Just For Kids Who Love Books

KidsReads.com
Provides a place to find out about new and favorite books, series, and authors. Includes book reviews, excerpts (sometimes the entire book), author interviews, biographies, where to write to a favorite author, trivia games, word scrambles, and contests.

The Little Red Riding Hood Project
A text and image archive containing sixteen of the more common versions of Little Red Riding Hood from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. From the University of Southern Mississippi

The Looking Glass
New Perspectives on children's books. Toronto Centre for the Study of Children's Literature

Multicultural Children's Literature in the Classroom
guidelines for selecting multicultural literature

Myths and Legends An edsites links list

OzKids Literature

Page by Page: creating a children's book
Explore the creation of the picture book,Zoom Upstream, written by Tim Wynne-Jones and illustrated by Eric Beddows. Trace the book's progress from idea through finding the illustrator and pictures, to printing, selling the book, and the readers. The section on pictures shows how the illustrator gets every detail exactly right, beginning with analyzing the text for the words and concepts that need to be represented in the pictures. Includes a list of links and a lesson plans section is planned. From the National Library of Canada

Picture Books Internet Public Library

Reading Room Book Stacks
Links to favorite novels, short stories, and fairy and folktales. Fairrosa Cyber Library of Childrens Literature

Recommended Literature: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve
An annotated list that can be searched by grade level, language, culture, genre, type of book, curriculum connections, and awards won, as well as by author, title, and keywords. From the California Department of Education

Selected Children's Literature Special Collections
Selected by Kay E. Vandergrift

A Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Stories From the Web

Story Place
The children's digital library from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. Contains PreSchool Library, Elementary Library, Book Hive, with primt out activities, stories, themes, and reading lists

Winnie the Pooh

Reading School Libraries

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