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A searchable site which refers to itself as "the most comprehensive edition of Andersen's fairy tales in English (American) on the internet."

Survey of the author's life and work.

Full text of works by American children's author L. Frank Baum (1856-1919.

Audio version, accessible through Real Player.

Library of Congress exhibition feature a scrapbook kept by Lewis Carroll. Includes an essay, a portrait gallery, and a timeline.

Full text of works by Victorian writer Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), including the Wind in the Willows.

"The Ezra Jack Keats Virtual Exhibit highlights original materials from seven titles featuring the character, Peter, who first appeared in 1962 with the publication of The Snowy Day. The materials are part of the Ezra Jack Keats Papers housed in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi. For each of the seven titles, the website includes an annotation, a finding aid, and original materials such as corrected typescripts, storyboards, and sketches."

Full text, from Project Guttenberg.

Resources related to the life and work of the author of Anne of Green Gables.

BBC News fact sheet.

Dartmouth has published this 157-page finding-aid reflective of the contents of all of the Dr. Seuss volumes. Available as a PDF download.

Searchable index to article citations devoted to children's literature scholarship from 1995 to the present.

Searchable and browsable versions of Aesop's Fables in various languages.

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.

A section of the American Library Association Gred Websites for Kids directory.

The Wizard of Oz exhibit at the Library of Congress.

Bilingual journal of criticism and reviews for children and young adults.

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

Website dedicated to the preservation and promotion of early children's book collections from across Europe. Digitized images are searchable by author, title, illustrator, subject, literary genre, and book type.

"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."

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.

An online version of 19th century texts housed in the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.

This website presents "a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. The Cinderellas presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Materials to construct this archive were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University ofSouthern Mississippi."

An article and exhibit by Ann Montanaro.

One of North America's leading research centers in the field of children's literature. Although the Collection has many strengths, the main focus is onchildren's literature, historical and contemporary. Founded in 1966 by Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond, the Collection holds the original manuscripts and illustrations of more than 1200 authors and illustrators, as well as 70,000+ published books dating from 1530 to the present. Part of Special Collections at The University of Southern Mississippi, the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection is housed in the McCain Library and Archives.

Home of the original Winnie-the-Pooh toys.

From the English translation: H.P. Paull (1872).

The goal of ICDL is to create a digital library of more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet.

This website presents "a text and image archive containing several Englishversions of the fairy tale. The Jacks presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. The materials were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi."

An excellent, academically-oriented website which, in the author's words, "reflects many of my concerns as a professor of children's literature and grew in response to two divergent but complementary calls heard fairly consistently from colleagues in the field. The first was for more and better theoretical and critical knowledge of children's literature and the second for practical assistance in the teaching of that literature."

This site offers "a text and image archive containing sixteen English versions of the fairy tale. TheLittle Red Riding Hoods presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. The materials were drawn from the de Grummond Children'sLiterature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi."

Childreen's book reviews 2003 - present.

An anthology of works for children, from 1800 to 1872.

Extensive directory of links to "illustrators whose primary design style would be suited to and sought for use in the children's market."

"Passport was created from an United States perspective and defines international children's literature as anything outside of your borders. Passport regards international literature as distinct from multicultural literature. International children's literature is the body of books originally published in one country and later published in another country." Provided relevant annotated links.

Bibliography from the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection.

The Water-Babies online exhibit at the Library of Congress.

"Continuously updated."

"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."

Site devoted to the history of children's book illustrationand the role women played.