Best of the Web
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Searchable and browsable versions of Aesop's fables in various languages.
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From the English translation: H.P. Paull (1872).
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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."
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Companion to a British Library exhibit features a timeline, short essays, images from the exhibition, and related links.
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Survey of the author's life and work.
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Full text of works by American children's author L. Frank Baum (1856-1919.
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Digitized version of the 1988 edition illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
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Audio version, accessible through Real Player.
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In this online version, "the works of several different illustrators have been selected for inclusion on the Alice In Wonderland story page. The varying styles offer a fascinating window into artistic creativity, allowing us to enjoy the historical as well as the contemporary illustrative renderings of this whimsical tale."
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Library of Congress exhibition feature a scrapbook kept by Lewis Carroll. Includes an essay, a portrait gallery, and a timeline.
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Audio version, accessible using Real Audio.
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Full text of works by Victorian writer Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), including the Wind in the Willows.
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Selected Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm in RealAudio.
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"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."
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Full text, from Project Guttenberg.
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Information on the real stuffed bear who inspired the creation of Winnie the Pooh and now housed in the Central Children's Room at the Donnell Library Center, part of The New York Public Library.
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Resources related to the life and work of the author of Anne of Green Gables.
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Provides text and audiop versions of many of Potter's tales.
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BBC News fact sheet.
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Companion site to a PBS program which "reveals how popular children's author Theodor Geisel advocated social change, teaching generations of children not only how to be better readers, but better people as well."
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Dartmouth has published this 157-page finding-aid reflective of the contents of all of the Dr. Seuss volumes. Available as a PDF download.
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Full online text by the English writer Anna Sewell (1820-1878), from Project Guttenberg.
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Searchable index to article citations devoted to children's literature scholarship from 1995 to the present.
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British magazine-style children's book site featuring reviews, profiles, and interviews with authors.
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Searchable and browsable versions of Aesop's Fables in various languages.
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Publication of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English.
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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.
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Awards for Children's and Young Adult literary works which "authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States." From the Consortium of Latin American Studies Program.
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Description of the collection at the University of South Carolina.
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A section of the American Library Association Gred Websites for Kids directory.
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"The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 93,000 volumes published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the 1990s."
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"The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. . .in all categories, including: Nursery Rhymes, Fables, Folk Tales, Myths, Legends and Hero Stories, Literary Fairy Tales, Bible Stories, Nature Stories, Biography, History, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Games, and Craft Activities."
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The Wizard of Oz exhibit at the Library of Congress.
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Annotated bibliography arranged by topic.
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Awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
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Bilingual journal of criticism and reviews for children and young adults.
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A selected annotated bibliography.
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Features resources for children's librarians. Includes lists of best books, reviews, and programming resources.
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"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."
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Browsable site includes historical discussions and book-cover images. Exhibition from McGill University Libraries, Canada.
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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.
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This website "is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided byothers: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world."
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An online version of 19th century texts housed in the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.
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Bibliography of children's literature criticism.
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A collection of scanned full text antique children's books from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Titles include the Peter Rabbit books, Grampa in Oz, Pinnochio and dozens of others. Many are translated into various languages including Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, Finnish, Swedish, German, Greek, Maori and other languages.
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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."
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Reviews "Canadiana of interest to children and young adults, including publications produced in Canada, or published elsewhere but of special interest or significance to Canada, such as those having a Canadian writer, illustrator or subject."
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An article and exhibit by Ann Montanaro.
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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.
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From the English translation: H.P. Paull (1872).
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International Board on Books for Young People
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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.
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"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.
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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."
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Browsable database of juvenile and young adult series books.
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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."
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"Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950." Currently contains 564 works.
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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."
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"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)."
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Childreen's book reviews 2003 - present.
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Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
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An anthology of works for children, from 1800 to 1872.
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Extensive directory of links to "illustrators whose primary design style would be suited to and sought for use in the children's market."
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Extensive directory of links to "sites about the authors of books for children and these authors' works, arranged alphabetically by the authors' names."
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"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.
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Recess! is a daily 3-minute public radio program about children's literature and culture. The site has audio and transcripts for over 1,000 programs.
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Bibliography from the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection.
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The Water-Babies online exhibit at the Library of Congress.
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Site features a hypertext version of "Snow White" which can connect to 36 alternative editions a series of illustrations excerpts on the context of fairy tales and issues in their study selected links and a bibliography.
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"Continuously updated."
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"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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Alphabetical listings of authors, illustrators, and publishers.
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Site devoted to the history of children's book illustrationand the role women played.
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