Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York

Children's Literature

100 titres pour le livre de jeunesse - CulturesFrance, Juin 2006
Achuka: Children's Books UK - News, profiles, interviews and awards. (Some sections available to subscribers only.)
Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy - Searchable, full-text version of Padraic Colum's 1918 book includes illustrations. (From Bartleby.com.)
Aesop's Fables - John R. Long's site includes the full texts of 655 fables. Most were translated by George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914). Some fables have images and sound.

Aesopica: Aesop's Fables in English, Latin & Greek - Laura Gibbs, Faculty Liaison for Information Technology at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She also maintains the following web sites:
Bestiaria Latina: Stories about Animals in Latin - With Blog
Biblia Vulgata: Bible Stories for Latin Students
Legenda Aurea: Stories about the Saints in Latin
Mythologiae: Classical Myths for Latin Students

Africa Access - "Africa Access was founded in 1989 to help schools, public libraries, and parents improve the quality of their children's collections on Africa. Our online database, Africa Access Review, contains over 1000 annotations and reviews of books for children. These critiques and descriptions are written by university professors, librarians, and teachers most of whom have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in African Studies." A search in for Sudan, for example, retrieves 26 results in Africa Access Review: Annotations and Critiques of Children's Materials on Africa, compiled and edited by Brenda Randolph. Hear about the Children's Africana Book Awards in News & Notes with Ed Gordon,, May 2, 2005.
ALAN Review - Journal contains articles on YA literature and its teaching, interviews with authors, reports on publishing trends, current research on YA literature, a section of reviews of new books, and ALAN membership news. Provides access to full-text articles from Winter 1994 to Winter 1999. (ALAN is an acronym for the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English.)
Aleph-Bet Books - Helen & Marc Younger, dealers in rare and collectible children's books in Pound Ridge, New York. Other dealers specializing in collectible children's books include Bromer Booksellers (Boston) and Justin G. Schiller (New York). For additional dealers can be located through the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Robert Stockton
Amazon.com Children's Books
American Antiquarian Society - Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the AAS is a "learned society and national research library of pre-twentieth century American history and culture." They have a strong Children's Literature Collection and provide access to their online catalog. There's also a 19th Century American Children's Book Trade Directory. Among the collections is the McLoughlin company archives. "McLoughlin Bros., Inc. was a New York publishing firm that pioneered the systematic use of color printing technologies in children's books, particularly between 1858 and 1920. The firm's publications served to popularize illustrators including Thomas Nast, William Momberger, Justin H. Howard, Palmer Cox, and Ida Waugh."
American Children's Literature - One of the Curriculum units (1978-1997) from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, "a partnership between Yale University and the New Haven Public Schools designed to strengthen teaching and learning in local schools and, by example, in schools across the country." Topics include: Literature of the U.S. Civil War, World War II As Seen Through Children’s Literature, Examining African-American Culture Through the Use of Children’s Literature and Understanding Hispanic/Latino Culture and History Through the Use of Children’s Literature. There is also a Index of all Curriculum Units, 1978-2000.
American Juvenile Collection - Research collection of children's fiction and folklore at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University. The collection, which covers the years 1910 -1960, is keyword searchable.
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books - Laura Gibbs
Anne of Green Gables Encyclopedia Page - Thomas P. Grelinger
Art of Illustration: A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Children's Book Illustrators - Exhibition at the National Library of Canada from April 24 to December 7, 1997.
Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) - ALA division provides an assortment of children's literature resources including the winners of the John Newbery Medal, the Randolph Caldecott Medal, the Mildred L. Batchelder Award and Other Awards & Notables which include the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award and the Pura Belpré Award for a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator. There is a useful collection of Resources for Librarians.
Asterix - Official site
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Audio Books For Free (AudioBooksForFree) - Free portions of over 200 audio stories for children including:
At the Back of the North Wind - By George MacDonald. Read by Stan Pretty.
King of the Golden River - By John Ruskin. Read by Silas Hawkins.
Mowgli - By Rudyard Kipling. Read by Margaret Wooster.
Austrian Children's Literature Database (ALIDA) - "Digitalisierung von Daten zur österreichischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur."
Author Pages - Official pages of children's writers and illustrators include Avi, Bernard Most, Brian Jacques, Anna Grossnickle Hines, Anne McCaffrey, Katherine Paterson, Jan Brett, Janet Stevens, Jean Marzollo, Joan Irvine, Kevin Henkes, Jonathan Allen, Suse MacDonald, James Gurney, Judy Blume, Seymour Simon, Lois Duncan, Eric Carle, Michael McCurdy, Daniel Pinkwater, Virginia Hamilton and Jean Craighead George. Additional author sites can be located at Random House: Author Web Sites, Yahoo! Children's Authors and Kay Vandergrift's Learning about the Author and Illustrator Pages.
AuthorTracker - Margaret Wise Brown, Peggy Parish and Norma Fox Mazerare just a few of the authors in the database.
Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature - University of Florida, Gainesville. "Contains more than 100,000 volumes published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the current year. Its holdings of more than 800 early American imprints is the second largest such collection in the United States." You can browse by genre in the Digital Colllection:
Bank Street College Children's Library - See also the Children's Book Committee and their annual list of recommended books and Awards.
Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents - Located at California State University in San Marcos, the Center offers a database of 7,000 titles in Spanish as well as a database of 700 titles in English about Hispanic/Latino people and cultures. (Centro para el Estudio de Libros Infantiles y Juveniles en Espanol).
Belinus Press
Beyond Nancy Drew: Girls' Literature in the Sallie Bingham Center For Women's History and Culture - Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia - Provides full-text access to Studies in Bibliography, searchable or browsable by volume (vols. 1-52, 1948-1999) and author. Articles on children's books include Four Children's Books by A. A. Milne by John R. Payne, Vol. 23, 1970, pp. 127-139, The Motives of Puffing: John Newbery's Advertisements: 1742-1767 by John Dawson Carl Buck, Vol. 30, 1977) pp. 196-210 and English Editions of French Contes de Fées Attributed to Mme D'Aulnoy Vol. 27, 1974) pp. 227-232 by Nancy and Melvin Palmer.
Biblioteca de literatura infantil y juvenil - Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
Book Links: Connecting Books, Libraries, and Classrooms - Homepage of the ALA publication "designed for teachers, librarians, library media specialists, booksellers, parents, and all other adults interested in connecting children with high quality books." Provides a useful cumulative index which covers 1990-2001.
Book TV: Children's Books - C-SPAN. Some programs are available online. Recent programs include Jennifer Armstrong's Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World (8/31/02) , Susan Provost Beller's Billy Yank and Johnny Reb: Soldiering in the Civil War (6/29/02), Amy Nathan's Yankee Doodle Gals: Women Pilots of World War II (5/4/02), Sally Walker's Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth (9/21/02) and Leslie Sills' In Real Life: Six Women Photographers (2/3/01).
BookHive - Site created by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County provides "hundreds of recommended book reviews in a variety of reading levels and interest areas".
Booklist - The website for this American Library Association publication provides indexes from 1997 to the present.
British Library - Their National Sound Archive is "one of the largest sound archives in the world." You can listen to Raymond Briggs reading an excerpt from Jim and the Beanstalk.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - "One of the nation's leading children's book review journals for school and public librarians," it is affiliated with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. Monthly online features include Starred Titles, Bulletin Dozens a theme-based lists of titles, the Big Picture, a monthly in-depth look at selected new titles and trend, and Rising Star, a focus on a particular author or artist. Provides the annual Blue Ribbon winners, with an archive of past winners from 1990 to the present. The Bulletin Homepage Archive provides selections from past Bulletins from 1997-2002.
Caldecott Medal Home Page - Site provided by the American Library Association also provides the past winners, a quick, print-out-able list of winners, and information about the Randolph Caldecott Medal.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907–21) - 18 volume encyclopedia is arranged chronologically and has an Index to Authors, Index to Chapters and an Index to Bibliographies. There are chapters on children's Books by F. J. Harvey Darton and Algernon Tassin. Provided by Bartleby.com.
Canadian Children's Book Centre - Toronto.
Canadian Children's Illustrated Books in English - Project funded by the the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada directed by Judith Saltman, Canadian children's literature authority and professor in the University of British Columbia's School of Library, Archival & Information Studies. Provides useful bibliographies and links to other resources.
Canadian Children's Literature/ Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse (CCL/LCJ)- "Bilingual refereed academic journal with the purpose of advancing knowledge and understanding of the texts produced for children in Canada a range of media in English, French and other languages."
Canadian Encyclopedia - There are articles on Picture Books and Illustrations, Barbara Reid, Farley Mowat, Ernest Thompson Seton, Timothy Wynne-Jones, Children's Literature in English, Children's Literature in French, and Literature for Children in French.
Canadian Literature Research Service - Library and Archives Canada. Their Children's Literature Service has a Canadian Children's Literature Database, also known as PIKA, has "records for all children's books held in the National Library's Canadian Children's Literature Service Collection -- over 35 000 titles. The collection contains Canadian children's books in English, French and other languages, dating from the 19th century to the present day." Other resources include Read Up On It!, Bibliiographies, Exhibitions, and links to Authors & Illustrators.
The Candy Man: Why children love Roald Dahl’s stories—and many adults don’t. By Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, July 11, 2005. "Dahl is also, however, a children’s writer whom many adults over the years have disliked or distrusted, though they have not always found it easy to say why."
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - "Collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."

Celebration of Women Writers - Extensive collection of links to texts and biographical material, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom. The collection is browsable by author name, century, country and ethnicity. (See Local Editions: Children's Books for additional titles.) Children's titles include:
Big Fire Engine Book (1958) - By Virginia Brody, Illustrations by Mazoujian.
Chronicles of Avonlea (1912) - By Lucy Maud Montgomery
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1921) - By Eleanor Farjeon
Mopsa the Fairy (1910) - By Jean Ingelow
Tales of the Punjab (1894) by Flora Annie Steele
Understood Betsy (1917) - By Dorothy Canfield (Fisher)
The Velveteen Rabbit, or, How Toys Become Real (1922) - By Margery Williams
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1922) - By Selma Lagerlöf

Center for Children's Literature (Center for Børnelitteratur) - Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark. Contains one of the largest collections of children's literature in Europe. The Danmarks Pædagogiske Bibliotek has an online catalog (select Dansk Pædagogisk Base). (Try a search for tegneserier (strips, cartoons, comics), børnebibliotek, skolehistorier (school stories), manga, humor, fantasy, illustration, litteraturkritik or Peter Plys (Danish version of Winnie the Pooh). In each record Ukontrollerede emneord (DBC) and DPB-emneord provide subject headings and cross references.
Centre National du Livre
Centre québécois de ressources en littérature pour la jeunesse (CQRLJ)
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals - UK association for librarians and information managers. They have a Youth Libraries Group which publishes the Youth Library Review. The Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded annually by the Library Association for "outstanding illustration in a children's book" and the Carnegie Medal is "awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children".
Child_Lit - Unmoderated discussion group convened for the express purpose of examining the theory and criticism of literature for children and young adults.
Children's Book Committee - Located at Bank Street College, the CBC assembles an annual list of recommended books. Provides names of current and past winners of the the Josette Frank Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award and the Claudia Lewis Award, as well as acceptance speeches from the award ceremonies. The Best Children's Books of the Year is published annually.
Children's Book Council - New York. Provides access to catalog which has posters, bookmarks and other materials related to Children's Book Week.
Children's Book Guild - Washington, DC. Provides biographical material on members among whom are Mary Downing Hahn, Katherine Paterson, Jane Leslie Conly, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Laura Krauss Melmed.
Children's Laureate - "Awarded once every two years to an eminent writer or illustrator of children's books, to celebrate outstanding achievement in their field."
Children's Literature Center - Library of Congress.
Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism - Online edition of annotated bibliography by Linnea Hendrickson, (published by G.K. Hall/Macmillan, c1987) is searchable by keyword and includes critics, authors, titles and subjects indexes.
Children's Literature, Chiefly from the Nineteenth Century - Online exhibit from the Historical Children's Literature Collection at Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina.
Children's Literature Publishers: A Directory of Publishers and Vendors - AcqWeb, Vanderbilt University
Children’s Literature Research in Germany. A Report - Hans-Heino Ewers
Children's Literature Web Guide - Collection of children's literature resources created by David K. Brown of the University of Calgary. Particularly useful are Best Books of the Year, which includes best books lists and awards for the last four years and Children's Authors and Illustrators.
Children's Picture Book Database - Bibliography for designing literature-based thematic units for all disciplines, including health education, for teachers, librarians, parents, and students. Created by Valerie A. Ubbes, an associate professor of health education at Miami University, the database provides abstracts for over 5,000 children's picture books. You can browse by keyword or category.

Children's Poetry Archive - Poets reading their poems:
Allan Ahlberg (1938-)
James Berry (1924-) - Reading Childhood Tracks, Trick a Duppy, Seashell, Isn't my name magical?
Valerie Bloom
Jean "Binta" Breeze
Robert Browning
Charles Causley
Gillian Clarke
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Roald Dahl - Reading "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
John Heath-Stubbs
Langston Hughes
Kathleen Jamie
Jackie Kay
Brendan Kennelly
Galway Kinnell
Wes Magee
Ian McMillan
Spike Milligan
Adrian Mitchell
John Mole
Edwin Morgan
Brian Moses
Judith Nicholls
Brian Patten
Andrew Fusek Peters
Michael Rosen
Kit Wright
William Butler Yeats

Children's Resource Booklists - Seattle Public Library provides useful categorized book lists including:
Concept Books
Doorways to African American Culture & Tradition
Doorways to Native American Culture & Tradition
Sensitive Issues: Bullying
Sensitive Issues: Death
Sensitive Issues: Divorce

Chinaberry - Online book store for families.

Chris Beetles Art Gallery- London Gallery has a searchable index. You'll find a number of children's book illustrators including:
Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)
Quentin Blake (1932- )
Emma Chichester Clark
Michael Foreman (1938- )
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Atholl McDonald
Edward McLachlan
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)
Charles Robinson (1870-1937)
Ernest Shepard (1879-1976)
Margaret Tarrant (1888-1959)

Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book - With full-text, illustrations, biographical information and textural history. Department of English, University of Windsor.
Chronicles of Earthsea - Edited transcript of Ursula Le Guin's "online Q&A, in which she answered readers' questions about anarchism, utopias, Harry Potter, her favourite planets and the best Dr Who." Guardian,February 9, 2004.
Cinderella Project - Text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale, ranging in date from 1729 to 1912; de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Russell A. Peck's Cinderella Bibliography, part of the Camelot Project at the University of Rochester, is another excellent resource for collections of Cinderella narratives.
Clearinghouse on Reading, English & Communication at Indiana University - Indiana University School of Education. Offers bibliographies on mnay topics, including children's book authors.
Compleat Bellairs: A Compendium Dedicated to the Gothic Works of John Bellairs - Jonathan Abucejo
Concordances of Great Books - Contains a number of children's books with complete text, searchable on one or two words, by phrase, and even includes a thesaurus search for similar words. The Children's Books section includes Aesop's Fables and works by Lewis Carroll, Beatrix Potter, Dickens, Barrie and Baum.

The Connection - Dick Gordon was the host of this WBUR, Boston (NPR) show. The last broadcast was on August 5, 2005. Other WBUR shows include Here and Now and On Point. The Connection content related to chldren's literature includes:
Archives
Children's Book Awards (12/24/2003)
Children's Books (6/4/2001)
Children's Book Art (12/12/2002)]
Coming to America (Jacqueline Wilson) (2/14/2005)
Angela Johnson's Genius (10/9/2003).

Consumer Reports for Kids

Cooperative Children's Book Center - Located at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Charlotte Zolotow Award "given annually to the author of the best picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year." Among their Publications:
Thick-skinned, Thin-skinned, the Skin I’m In: Books about Bullying, Teasing, Relational Aggression and School Violence (2008) - Compiled by Tessa Michaelson
Fifty Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know (2006)
Natural World in Books for Children and Teenagers (2000)
Recommended Picture Books Featuring Interracial Families (2006)
Books for Beginning Readers (1998)

Coretta Scott King Book Awards - With current and past winners back to 1970.
Cotsen Children's Library - Princeton University collection is "one of the great concentrations of primary source material (20,000 items), principally in the form of illustrated books, but including prints, drawings, manuscripts, games, puzzles, hornbooks, and toys, among a great many other objects. These range from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries in a variety of languages from French and German to Farsi and Urdu." The Reading Room has a selection of articles (in pdf format) about the Cotsen Collection that have appeared in the Princeton University Library Chronicle.
A Critical Bibliography of North American Indians, For K-12 - Compiled in September 1996, this excellent resource for teachers and librarians describes over 800 books. There are sections organized by culture area and tribe and further divided into non-fiction and fiction, biographies, and traditional stories. From the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History. There are sections for the Northeast, Southwest, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Arctic, Plains, Great Basin, Subarctic and the Southeast.
Crockett Johnson Homepage - This site, devoted to the author of Harold and the Purple Crayon, is maintained by Phil Nel, an Assistant Professor of English at Kansas State University.
Curious George - Houghton Mifflin
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature - Compiled and indexed by Lisa R Bartle, a librarian at Ohio State University, the database contains over 3,500 records from over 49 awards. A search form enables you to search by keyword, or limit by a number of criteria including age of reader, format, setting, genre, ethnicity of protagonist, historical period, publication date, and award. Bartle is interviewed about the database on the August 7 1999 by All Things Considered.
Definitive Laura Ingalls Wilder Pages - Jennifer Slegg
de Grummond Children's Literature Collection - One of the top research collections in the field of children's literature located at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 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." Fairy Tale Projects consist of Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project (1997), the Cinderella Project (1995), and the Little Red Riding Hood Project (1995). The manuscript collection includes the papers of such authors as Barbara Cooney, Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lenski, James Marshall, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Maud and Miska Petersham, and Taro Yashima. Access is provided to the online catalog and you can search finding aids, pathfinders, and vertical file indexes. Doubleday Book Clubs' Best in Children's Books, 42 volumes published from 1957 to 1961, consists of a Volume List, Author Index, Illustrator Index and a Title List. Useful Bibliographies include Resource Bibliography for the Study of African-American Children's Literature, Cinderella Multi-Cultural Database, Civil Rights Movement Bibliography, Best in Children's Books Index and Children's Literature Research Guide. Virtual Exhibits include Kate Greenaway Almanacs, Neubert Valentine Collection, Ezra Jack Keats, and Curious George Comes to Hattiesburg. The newsletter of the de Grummond Collection, Juvenile Miscellany, is available online from Spring 1996 and has an Index. "Each issue lists accessions of the de Grummond Collection, details activities of the Children's Book Festival, and highlights significant holdings of the Collection."

Digitalisierte historische Kinderbücher - German children's book digitization project. Books are listed by title and author. Among the 392 primarily German titles in the collection are a few in English:
A book of nonsense by Edward Lear
The Baby's Own Aesop with illustrations by Walter Crane
Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book
A Day in a Child's Life by Kate Greenaway

Doucette Library of Teaching Resources - University of Calgary. Especially useful is the Children's Literature Index , which provides "K-12 literature-Based teaching ideas."
Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons - Although not children's literature, most people are not aware of this aspect of Geisel's career. The online exhibition consists of 388 political cartoons published by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) in the newspaper PM during the years 1941-43. From the Dr. Seuss Collection in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego.
Drafts of Donald Hall's "Ox Cart Man" - University of New Hampshire
Electronic Text Center - Literature for Young Readers - Literature for children with full-text available online from the University of Virginia's Modern English Collection. 1,800 publicly-available Ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, were made available in August. These texts can be read using Microsoft Reader software (free). Among the Illustrated Classics available are 13 titles by Beatrix Potter, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, and Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz.
Elizabeth Nesbitt Room: A Goodly Heritage - University of Pittsburgh collection includes a Chapbook Collection consisting of 258 titles.
Encyclopedia Mythica - Encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 6100 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.
Enid Blyton: An Unofficial Homepage - Andre Jarvis.
ERIC: Education Resources Information Center - "ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES)." A search for "children's literature" retrieves over 9,000 articles and other publications.
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art - Amherst, Massachusetts. You can listen to a Lynn Neary's five-minute interview with Eric Carle in which he talks about his work and the museum on National Public Radio's All Things Considered (12/6/02).
Fairy Tales - Department of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Fairy Tales: A Guide to Resources on the Web
Tales Collected by the Brothers Grimm
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature - Edited by Roxanne Hsu Feldman, a Middle School librarian at the Dalton School in New York. (Last Updated: August 24, 2006.)
Family Reading Partnership - Located in Ithaca, the FRP is a "non-profit community coalition that has joined forces to create a culture of literacy. FRP coordinates a variety of programs designed to promote family reading, often by using books as gifts to carry the message." (607 274-2223)
Federation of Children's Book Groups - Hosts the annual Children's Book Award for the best work of fiction for children in which children select the winners.
Fractured Fairy Tales - Betsy Fraser provides a bibliography of stories that that parody the traditional fairy tale.
From A to Z: An Exhibition of ABC Books Selected from the John O.C. McCrillis Collection - March through June 1998, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Gallica - Digitization project at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A search (recherche) for Perrault, Charles (auteur) retrieves Les contes des fées and Contes; textes établis par Gilbert Rouger. Other full-texts available at Gallica include Contes moraux pour la jeunesse par madame de Genlis, Contes choisis des frères Grimm, Contes choisis de la famille, Les mille et une nuits and Fable de La Fontaine / avec les dessins de Gustave Doré and Nouveaux contes de fées pour les petits enfants par Mme la Comtesse de Ségur.

Galaxy of Stories - Times Online. "Famous names from the worlds of film, TV and comedy tell memorable children’s stories and bring them to life in their own unique way."
Alice in Wonderland - Imelda Staunton
Aladdin - Tom Baker
Brave Tin Soldier - Shane Ritchie
Cinderella - Ashley Jensen
Dick Whittington - Clive Anderson
Emperor's Birthday Suit - Richard E Grant
Gingerbread Man - Maureen Lipman
Golden Goose - Harry Enfield
Jack and the Beanstalk - Jack Davenport
Little Match Girl - Tamzin Outhwaite
Little Red Riding Hood - Miranda Richardson
Princess and the Pea - Samantha Morton
Puss in Boots - Julian Clary
Rapunzel - Greta Scacchi
Rumpelstiltskin - Robert Lindsay
Sinbad - Christopher Eccleston
Snow Queen - Joanna Lumley "reads a chilling version of The Snow Queen"
Tinderbox - Geoffrey Palmer
Three Little Pigs - Laurence Llewelyn Bowen
Ugly Duckling - Sanjeev Bhaskar

Golden Fleece - Searchable, full-text version of Padraic Colum's 1922 book includes illustrations. (From Bartleby.com.)
Governor General's Literary Awards - National Library of Canada. Readers include children's authors.
Great Books Foundation - Has information on Junior Great Books.
Grimm's Fairy Tales - 209 tales, from the OnLine Books Page. See also Brothers Grimm, Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers, Grimm Brothers' Home Page Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers and Grimm Brothers, National Geographic's presentation of 12 unvarnished tales, based on a 1914 translation.
Growing Good Kids – Excellence in Children's Literature - American Horticultural Society and the Junior Master Gardener program award for outstanding children’s gardening and nature books. With a list of 2006 Award Winners and a list of Classics representing "the TOP 40 books of the last 100 YEARS."
Hans Christian Andersen 2005 - Centre for Children's Literature (Center for Børnelitteratur), Copenhagen
Hans Christian Andersen's life and works: research, texts and information - Hans Christian Andersen Center, Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. The Complete Anderson translated by Jean Hersholt "is the most comprehensive edition of Andersen's fairy tales in English (American) on the internet."
HarperCollins Children's Books - Sections of interest include Lemony Snicket, Narnia and Meet the Author with interview archives. There is also an Authors page.
Historical Fiction Listed by Date - Arranged chronologically by the date the story takes place. (Ben Franklin Middle School Library, Chantilly, Virginia)
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH) - "Core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Published between 1850 and 1950..." (Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.) Titles of interest include A Mother's List of Books for Children (1912) by Gertrude Weld Arnold, Children's Reading, a Guide for Parents and Teachers (1925) Lewis Madison Terman, Nursery School Education (1920) by Grace Arlington Owen and How to Tell Stories to Children (1905) by Sara Cone Bryant.
Horn Book - Sections include News and Current Issues, Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards, and Fanfare. In addition, there is an annotated list of recommended titles for Black History Month and Children's Classics: A Booklist for Parents.
Institut für Jugendliteratur
International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) - This organization presents the Hans Christian Andersen Awards every other year and they also compile the biennial Honour List. With links to IBBY National Sections.
International Book Collectors Association - With an issue on Collecting Children's Books
International Children’s Digital Library
International Reading Association - Provides links to councils and affiliates.
Internet Archive Children's Library
Internet Public Library Author Page - Provides interviews, biographies and links to other resources.
Internet School Library Media Center - Sites of possible interest to librarians and teachers, organized and annotated by Inez Ramsey, a Professor of Library Science at James Madison University. Useful sections include Index to Children's Books Authors and Illustrators, Children's Literature Awards and Native American Authors.
Into the Wardrobe: The C. S. Lewis Web Site - John Visser
J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page - Eric Lippert.
Jean de la Fontaine - Provides 124 Fables. La Cigale et la Fourmi, for example, is also translated into English (The Cicada and the Ant) and Latin (Cicada et Noctua) and you can also hear the fable being read (in French) by clicking on the postage stamp illustration. (Put online during their school vacation by Francois, Julien, Pierre et Emilie Vidaud.)
La Joie par les livres: livres et lecture pour la jeunesse
Kay Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page - Kay Vandergrift, a professor at the School of Communication Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, provides a variety of useful sections including Learning about the Author and Illustrator Pages, with over 500 links to author pages, Social History of Children's Literature, Snow White, Young Adult Literature Page, and A Study of The Golem Illustrated by David Wisniewski.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Washington D.C. Hear Judith Viorst''s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and other stories and poems for children in Storytime Online (in their Multimedia Archive).
Kids' Corner - Features nine stories by Beatrix Potter including a Peter Rabbit audio slide show. From Wired for Books, a production of the Ohio University Telecommunications Center.
KidsClick: Web Guide and Search Tool for Kids by Librarians - Almost 1,800 records for Internet resources of interest to kids that have been selected, annotated and categorized by a team of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System in New York.. The Literature section includes an extensive collection of Folklore links.
KIDiddles - Provides lyrics to children's songs.
LANIC: Primary & Secondary Education in Latin America - Latin American Network Information Center has a number of links to children's literature in Spanish or Portuguese.
Leonard Everett Fisher Papers: The Non-Fiction Book Series - A Resource Guide for Educators - Frances A. Miceli, Archives & Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut . With lesson plans.
Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition - Exhibition at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Lewis Carroll Society of North America - Includes biographical information, a Centenary Exhibit, and links to Carroll Texts On-line.
Library of Congress Digital Collections - See the entire text of Stories from Hans Andersen with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911 and The song of sixpence picture book with illustrations by Walter Crane, London & New York, 1909. Others online titles in the Juvenile Collection include The cheerful cricket and others (1907), A Little pretty pocket-book (1787), London Town (1883), Jimmy Crow (1902), Gobolinks, or shadow-pictures for young and old (1896), and William Tell Told Again (1904).
Library of Congress Online Catalog - To locate children's books do a guided search for Juvenile literature as a subject.
Library of Congress Information Bulletin - Full-text from 1997 to 2001 (ceased publication in July/August 2001). Articles relating to children's literature including A Child's Garden of Books, July 1998, Young at Heart: A Celebration of Remy Charlip, June, 1997, and Building a Nation of Readers, March, 1998.

Library of Congress Webcasts - Childrens' book authors and illustrators include:
M. T. Anderson - 2007 National Book Festival, 29 September 2007
Stan & Jan Berenstain - Part 1 and Part 2), 4 October 2003
Holly Black - 2007 National Book Festival, 1 August 2007 (podcast - 20 minutes)
Holly Black - 9 October 2004
Norman Bridwell - 12 October 2002
Marc Brown -9 October 2004
Ashley Bryan - 12 October 2002
Meg Cabot - 24 September 2005
Eric Carle - 12 October 2002
Andrew Clements - 30 September 2006
Lucille Clifton - 17 March 1988
Esme Raji Codell - 4 October 2003
Judith Ortiz Cofer - 30 September 2006
Bryan Collier - 30 September 2006
Floyd Cooper - 9 October 2004
Sharon Creech - 24 September 2005
Tony DiTerlizzi - 30 September 2006
Sharon Draper - 30 September 2006
Russell Freedman - 8 September 2001
Jack Gantos - 24 September 2005
Patricia Reilly Giff - 24 September 2005
Steven Kellogg - 4 October 2003
Hilary Knight - 24 September 2005
Kathleen Krull - 9 October 2004
Betsy Lewin - 9 October 2004
Betsy Lewin - 30 September 2006
Patricia MacLachlan - 2007 National Book Festival,, 14 August 2007 (podcast - 18 minutes)
David Macaulay - 9 October 2004
Megan McDonald - 2007 National Book Festival, 3 August 2007 (podcast - 26 minutes)
Patricia & Frederick McKissack - 8 September 2001
Stephenie Meyer - 30 September 2006
Wendell Minor - 4 October 2003
Pat Mora - 24 September 2005
Shelia Moses - 30 September 2006
Christopher Myers - 4 October 2003
Walter Dean Myers - 24 September 2005
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - 24 September 2005
Kadir Nelson - 30 September 2006
Laura Numeroff: - 24 September 2005
Mary Pope Osborne - 26 September 2005
Katherine Paterson - 8 September 2001
Richard Peck - 30 September 2006
Pinkney Family (Part 1 and Part 2), 12 October 2002
Jerry Pinkney - 17 February 2004
Jerry Pinkney - 24 September 2005
Sharon Robinson - 30 September 2006
Eric Rohmann - 4 October 2003
Louis Sachar - 30 September 2006
Allen Say - 12 October 2002
Cynthia Leitich Smith - 12 October 2002
Jerry & Eileen Spinelli - 4 October 2003
R. L. Stine - 24 September 2005
Mark Teague - 30 September 2006
Terry Trueman - 30 September 2006
Judith Viorst - 30 September 2006
Rosemary Wells - 2007 National Book Festival,, 30 August 2007 (podcast - 28 minutes)
Rosemary Wells - 12 October 2002
David Wiesner - 2007 National Book Festival, 25 July 2007 (podcast - 25 minutes)
David Wiesner - 12 October 2002
Janet Wong - 4 October 2003
Ed Young - 12 October 2002

Lilly Library Chapbook Collection - Searchable collection of "1,900 chapbooks from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and the United States." Provides bibliography (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Literature for Children - Searchable collection of nearly 400 full-texts English and American children's books, from 1850 to 1905. A publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM), State University System of Florida.
Little More Montgomery: Lucy Maud Montgomery in Ontario - Yuka Kajihara.
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - University of Virginia "hypermedia presentation" includes electronic version of text, biographical information, chapter summaries, and bibliography.
L. M. Montgomery Institute - University of Prince Edward Island
LM_NET - Discussion group for school library media specialists worldwide
Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of Rare Illustrated Children's Books - John Hay Library, Brown University. ("To see all 380 records enter a search for the name heading "Aldrich Collection (Brown University)" in the Brown University Library catalog.")
Magic Pencil – Children’s Book Illustration Today - British Library Exhibition included thirteen children's book artists: Angela Barrett, Patrick Benson, Stephen Biesty, Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, John Burningham, Lauren Child, Emma Chichester Clark, Sara Fanelli, Michael Foreman, Tony Ross, Posy Simmonds and Charlotte Voake.
Making of America - Digital library of primary sources in contains over 8,000 books and journal volumes with imprints between 1850 and 1877. Joint project of the University of Michigan and Cornell. You can browse periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. In it, for example, is the four volume Riverside magazine for young people (1868-70).
Les Manuels scolaires québécois - Searchable database of over 7,000 Québec school books from 1765 to 1964. Includes illustrations par thème, texts and history. Maintained by Paul Aubin, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. (In French). Also available in pdf format. (In French.)
Marguerite deAngeli Collection - Lapeer County Library, Michigan. Three of the Ted and Nina Story Books are available online.
Martha's Kidlit Newsletter - Specialty publication for dealers and collectors out-of-print children's books edited by Martha Rasmussen.
Maurice Sendak: Helping Children Survive - Named by President Clinton as 1996 National Medal of Arts recipient. (See also Hamida Bosmajian's Memory and Desire in the Landscapes of Sendak's Dear Mili).
Maxine Waldron Collection of Children's Books and Paper Toys - Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts & Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Library.
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature - Young Adult Library Services Association
Midwest Book Review: Children's Bookwatch
Morgan Library - Originally the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, this New York library and museum has an outstanding collection of early children's books. Access is provided to the online catalog. A search (name browse) for Carroll, Lewis, for example, retrieves 140 results.
Movable Book Society
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature - Abilene, Texas
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) - They select the Notable Trade Books for Young People and the Carter G. Woodson Book Awards for the most distinguished social science books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States.
National Council of Teachers of English - With the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children.
National Library of Canada Canadian Children's Literature Service - Among the resources for children's literature are links to Canadian Children's Literature: Authors & Illustrators, Canadian Children's Literature: Award-Winning Books 1992 to the present and the annual annotated bibliography for the Read Up On It program.
National Portrait Gallery - London. Has a Picture Library Search with information on approximately 10,000 works in which you can search for artist, sitter of by title or by NPG number. (In Advanced Search you can restrict your search to images available on web site and you can search by NPG number.) There are over 100 children's authors with online portrarits (paintings and photographs) including:
Quentin Saxby Blake (NPG x125005)
Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (NPG P726)
Charles Kingsley (NPG 2525)
Rudyard Kipling (NPG 1863)
Charles Lamb (NPG 507)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
Alan Alexander ('A.A.') Milne (1882-1956)
Clive Staples ('C.S.') Lewis (1898-1963)
Beatrix Potter (Mrs Heelis) (1866-1943) (NPG 3635)
Philip Pullman (1946-)
Arthur Michell Ransome (1884-1967)
Joanne Kathleen ('J.K.') Rowling (1965-)
Robert Louis Stevenson (NPG 1028)
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)
National Public Radio - Good source for audio files of author interviews. A search for children's books, for example, retrieves over 100 results. There are archived interviews for such children's book authors as Avi (All Things Considered 7/12/98), Judy Blume (Talk of the Nation 12/24/98), Eric Carle (All Things Considered 12/6/02), Beverly Cleary (All Things Considered 8/16/99), Christopher Paul Curtis (Fresh Air 1/26/00), Christopher Paul Curtis (Weekend Edition/Sunday 2/6/00), Tom Davenport (Morning Edition 6/29/98), Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket (Fresh Air 12/10/01), David Macaulay (All Things Considered - 12/25/99), Gary Paulson (Fresh Air 3/8/02), J.K. Rowling (All Things Considered 12/03/98), J.K. Rowling (Morning Edition 10/27/00), Allen Say (Weekend Edition - Sunday 8/4/02), Chris Van Allsburg (Weekend Edition 11/17/02). There are also obituaries for Barbara Cooney (All Things Considered 3/17/00), Astrid Lindgren (All Things Considered 1/28/02), Kay Thompson(All Things Considered 7/7/98), Shel Silverstein (Weekend Edition - Saturday, May 15, 1999), Shel Silverstein, and Virginia Hamilton (Tavis Smiley Show 3/18/02). (Talk of the Nation 5/11/99).
New York Times Book Review - There is a special Children's Books issue and a list of Children's Book Reviews from January 1997 to November 18 2001, arranged alphabetically by author. Also provides access to Back Issues of the NYTBR from January 5, 1997 to April 21, 2002 and to a Children's Books Best Sellers. Audio resources include Readings from 'The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury' Recorded at The Central Park Zoo, September 15, 1998 and Life & Times of E. B. White.(Free registration.) Other newspapers with occasional reviews of children's books include the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, the Boston Book Review, Boston Globe, London Review of Books, the London Times, Toronto Globe & Mail and USA Today.
Newbery Medal Home Page - American Library Association. With a Quick, Print-out-able List of All Newbery Medal Winners, 1922-2002 and a more detailed Past Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books.
19th-Century German Stories - Robert Godwin-Jones, Department of Foreign Languages, Virginia Commonwealth University, provides the illustrated German originals (with English translations). There is a Story Index. Samples include Der Struwwelpeter, Hans Huckebein, Max und Moritz, and Der Froschkönig (The Frog King). There is a section devoted to Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers. Rumpelstilzchen and Aschenputtel (Cinderella) have audio files.)
Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read - Created by Pat Pflieger, an English professor at a state college in Pennsylvania.
19th Century Girls' Series - Deidre Johnson provides biographies and bibliographies of 14 authors of girls' series.
19th Century Schoolbooks - Full-text collection of 30 books, a project of the Digital Research Library, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh.
Online Books Page - Alphabetical list, by author, of full-texts available online. Authors include Alger, Bannerman, Baum, Burnett, Caldecott, Carroll, Dodge, Field, Grahame, Greenaway, Gruelle, Hawthorne, Irving, Kipling, Lamb, Lang, Lear, London, Longfellow, MacDonald, Nesbit, Optic, Poe, Potter, Rackham, Service, Stevenson, Stratton-Porter, Tarkington, Twain, Verne, Wells, Wiggin, and Wyss.
Only the Best for My Child: A Bibliography Of Children's Picture Books Featuring Powerful, Positive Female Characters - Compiled by MaryHelen Lewis, Seattle, Washington in 1996.

Open Library
Tailor of Gloucester (1903) - by Beatrix Potter
Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904) - by Beatrix Potter
Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906) - by Beatrix Potter
Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903) - by Beatrix Potter
Tale of Tom Kitten (1907) - by Beatrix Potter

Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books - Toronto Public Library
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 - Cooperative project between the National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council.
Oyate - "Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that all people will know our stories belong to us ... Our work includes evaluation of texts, resource materials and fiction by and about Native peoples; conducting of teacher workshops, in which participants learn to evaluate children's material for anti-Indian biases; administration of a small resource center and library; and distribution of children's, young adult, and teacher books and materials, with an emphasis on writing and illustration by Native people." There is an online catalog which organizes the books by grade level and provides short summaries and a list of Books to Avoid.
PBS TeacherSource: Recommended Books - For the following categories: Arts & Literature, Health & Fitness, Math, Science & Technology and Social Studies.
Page by Page: Creating a Children's Book - National Library of Canada site describes the making of Zoom Upstream by Tim Wynne-Jones and illustrated by Eric Beddows (Ken Nutt).
Peter Rabbit Web Site - F. Warne's "official and definitive site about the world of Beatrix Potter."
Picturing A Canadian Life: L.M. Montgomery's Personal Scrapbooks and Book Covers - Online exhibition curated by Dr. Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, founder of the L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI.
Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books from University of California Collections, 1550-1990 - Online version of the catalog produced to accompany an exhibition held at UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, April 16 through June 29, 1997.

Pop Goes the Page: Movable and Mechanical Books from the Brenda Forman Collection - Exhibition at the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library is organized by artist, genre, space, format and series:
Lothar Meggendorfer
Ernest Nister
Voitech Kubasta
Space
Contemporary
Tableau
Pop Up
Rivet Books
Slats, Tabs, Cards
Dean and Son
Bookano
Blue Ribbon Pleasure Books
Jolly Jump Ups

Pop-Up World of Ann Montanaro - Exhibition of pop-up books at Rutgers University.
Project Gutenberg - Michael Hart's huge undertaking to digitize public domain texts is searchable by author, title, subject and notes. Children's authors include Aesop, Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger, Victor Appleton, pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, Mary Mapes Dodge, Kenneth Grahame, Laura Lee Hope, Washington Irving, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Lamb, Andrew Lang, Edward Lear, Hugh Lofting, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edith Nesbit, Oliver Optic, Eleanor H. Porter, Beatrix Potter, Howard Pyle, Anna Sewell, Johanna Spyri, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gene Stratton-Porter, Sir John Tenniel, Mark Twain, and Kate Smith Wiggin. (Alternate Access to Project Gutenberg). Try using the OnLine Books Page to locate books in Project Gutenberg (by author and title).
Projekt Digitalisierung farbiger Kinder- und Jugendbücher des 19. Jahrhunderts - Digitization of 19th century children's titles owned by Universitaetsbibliothek Oldenburg. There are Title and Author indices. Most of the texts are German but there are a number of English books with illustrations by Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway. You can access the full-text of Edmund Dulac's Fairy-book (see p.29 Seven Conquerors of the Queen of the Mississippi). To access the full-text, click on Öffnen on the bottom right of the screen and then click on the right arrow (Blättern) to turn pages.
Publishers Weekly Children's Bestsellers - Publishers Weekly. There are bestseller categories for children's fiction and children's picture books.
Pura Belpré Award - ALA award "presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth."
Purple Crayon: A Children's Book Editor's Site - Harold Underdown
Random House Kids
Bibliography of Children's Literature Criticism - Perry Nodelman
Reading Rainbow
Reading Rants: Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists - Compiled by Young Adult librarian Jennifer Hubert.
Recent Studies in 18th-Century Children's Literature - James E. May. "Revised and updated version of the "Bibliography of Studies on Early Children's Books" originally printed in the May 1999 issue of The East-Central Intelligencer."
Renier Collection at the National Art Library - Largest special collection of children's literature in the U.K. given by Anne and Fernand Renier to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1970.
La Revue des Livres pour Enfants - "La Revue des Livres pour Enfants publie bimestriellement un panorama critique des nouveautés de l'édition, des informations, interviews, échos, articles et dossiers thématiques sur le livre et la lecture des jeunes."
Robert J. Lang Origami
Rosenbach Museum & Library - Philadelphia. Has a Maurice Sendak Gallery. You can search for manuscripts and objects in the online database. (Try a search for Tenniel)
Royal Society - UK's national academy of science, they manage the Aventis Prizes for Science Books which "celebrate the very best in popular science writing for adults and children."
Scholastic
School Library Journal Online
Science Fiction and Fantasy for Children: an annotated bibliography for educators - Searchable database of over 400 science fiction and fantasy titles compiled by Linda Day, a librarian at the University of Guelph Library.
Seussville! - Random House
Smithsonian Magazine - Site is searchable and offers a list of issues from January 1995 to the Present. Examples of articles related to children's literature include:
Once Upon a Time - March 2003
Notable Books for Children - December 2002
Notable Books for Children - November 2001
The Amazing Author of Oz - June 2000
Notable Books for Children - November 2000
Notable Books for Children - November 1999
Notable Books for Children - November 1998
Notable Books for Children - November 1997
Notable Books for Children - November 1996
Notable Books for Children - November 1995
The Amazing Author of Oz - June 2000
The Man Who Dreamed Up Madeline - July 1998
The Man Who Draws Dinosaurs All Day - May 1995

South Asian Children's Books - SAWNET (South Asian Women's Network)
Stories from the Web - Browse library of online stories for readers aged 8 to 11 or 11 to 14 by title or by type. (A Reader Development Programme managed by Birmingham (UK) Libraries.)
Storynory: Free Audio Stories - Founded by Matthew Lynn and Hugh Fraser, the stories are read by Natasha Gostwick. The Archives contain over 100 stories for children which can be listened to on your computer, transferred to an iPod, or burned to a CD. See For bedtime stories, just press play by Ying Wu, Wall Street Journal, June 16-17, 2007.
Stratemeyer Syndicate Records - New York Public Library provides information on Edward Stratemeyer and his popular series of children's books (Tom Swift, Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Dana Girls, Rover Boys).
Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America - 163 Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865, drawn from the collections of Michigan State University Libraries and the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University Libraries. (American Memory, Library of Congress.)
SurLaLune Fairy Tales - Librarian and researcher Heidi Anne Heiner has collected, annotated and enhanced 17 fairy tales. Cinderella, for example, has illustrations, history, similar tales from other cultures, modern intrepretations, annotations and a bibliography.
Tales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World - Richard Darsie
Teen Book Video Awards - 2006 winners: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray and How I live Now by Meg Rosoff
Teen Hoopla: An Internet Guide for Teens - YA book reviews. (Young Adult Library Services Association.)
Texas Bluebonnet Award - Established in 1979 by the Texas Library Association "to encourage Texas children to read more books, explore a variety of current books, develop powers of discrimination, and identify their favorite books."
Tolkien Archives
Tolkien Society
Trelease on Reading - Offers a complete guide to Jim Trelease's work and is aimed at parents, teachers, librarians, and college students.
Treasure Island - Information about Robert Louis Stevenson, the characters of the book, tropical islands, pirates, buried treasure; Steve Hill and Sarah Ormes, UKOLN
True Mother Goose - Songs for the Nursery, Or, Mother Goose's Melodies for Children (1895) - Full-text with illustrations. Notes and Pictures by Blanche McManus, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe. (Jeff Kelley, Kellscraft Studio.)
Two Roman Mice - Marilynne Roach's retelling of Horace's famous story of the town mouse and the country mouse. (American Academy in Rome.)
221B Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective - Michael Sherman provides links to the full-text of 48 of the 60 stories.
UNESCO Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance
University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections - Internationally recognized center of research in the field of children's literature at the University of Minnesota, the collection contains manuscripts, artwork, galleys, and color proofs, for over 7,000 children's books. Provides web-based access to online catalog. There are five special collections: the Kerlan Collection, one of the world's great children's literature research collections of books, original manuscripts and illustrations; the Hess Collection, George H. Hess Jr.'s collection of dime novels and other popular literature; the Paul Bunyan Collection, a collection of folklore or fakelore on the legendary logger; and the Oz Collection of Oziana, other Baum-related materials, and miscellaneous children's literature and the Treasure Island Illustrated Editions Collection, morethan 450 books collected and donated by Lionel Johnson. Some of the authors in the Kerlan Collection collection include Dahlov Ipcar, Wanda Gag, and Eleanor Cameron. See the Online Finding Aids for the Children's Literature Research Collections.
Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig - Kinderbücher - Digitized texts of children's books, including many in English. Some of the authors and illustrators in the collection include Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott. Of special interest is the Meggendorfer-Album, a 107 page album with original drawings and sketches by the German illustrator Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925).
W. Harrison Cady Papers in the Archives of American Art - Illustrator of Thornton W. Burgess children's stories.
Wizard of Oz: An American Fairytale - Library of Congress exhibition.
Women Children's Book Illustrators - Denise Ortakales
World of the Child: Two Hundred Years of Children's Books - Online exhibition, curated by Iris R. Snyder, Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library (February 17 - June 12, 1998). Includes books for children from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries including early primers and chapbooks, illustrated classics, and pop-up and movable books.
Yahoo! - Children's Literature - Provides links to Authors and Book Awards.
YALSA Home Page - Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the ALA. With Best Books lists.
Yesterday and Today: Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era - Virtual exhibition curated by the Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Libraries (part of the Digital Collections Program).
Young Adult Librarian's Help
ZYX Exhibit - An exhibition of selected ABC books from the Jean Trebbi Collection, Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.