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  • Amelia Bloomer Project

    Provides an annual list of fiction and non-fiction titles which "celebrate the authors, illustrators, editors, and publishers who create and produce feminist books for young readers." Archived from 2002.

  • Center for Children's Books

    Features resources for children's librarians. Includes lists of best books, reviews, and programming resources.

  • Children's Book Council

    "The Childrens Book Council (CBC) is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of childrens books, and is the official sponsor of Young Peoples Poetry Week and Childrens Book Week each year. The Councils Members include U.S. publishers and packagers of trade books for children and young adults."

  • Children's Literature Association (ChLA)

    This organizations goals are: To encourage serious scholarship and research in children's literature.to enhance the professional stature of the graduate and undergraduate teaching of children's literature andto encourage high standards of criticism in children's literature.

  • International Reading Association: Choices Booklists

    "Each year, thousands of children, young adults, teachers, and librarians around the United States select their favorite recently published books to be included in the Choices annotated booklists. Published annually by the International Reading Association, Childrens Choices, Teachers Choices, and Young Adults Choices booklists are used in classrooms,libraries, and homes to help young people find books they will enjoy reading." This site features these lists back to 1998.

  • Mother Goose Society

    "The Mother Goose Society was founded in 1987 to encourage a love for the warm tradition of Mother Goose rhymes and Mother Goose's comforting embrace and to promote the annual celebration of Mother Goose Day (May 1st)."

  • National Center for the Study of Children's Literature

    Childreen's book reviews 2003 - present.

  • Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

    "SCBWI acts as a network for the exchange of knowledge between writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, librarians, educators, booksellers and others involved with literature for young people."

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