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Children's
Literature: A Guide to the Criticism
The 1987 edition of the book by Linnea Hendrickson, a reference librarian
and a college instructor in English, social sciences, and humanities,
now online and searchable. "Covering works as diverse as a historical
survey of the alphabet book and an analysis of the young adult novels
of Judy Blume, this annotated bibliography draws together significant
articles, books, and dissertations of children's literature criticism.
Compiled from a wide variety of popular and scholarly sources, Children's
Literature: A Guide to the Criticism provides a thorough and easy-to-use
resource to this burgeoning field of study. Children's Literature
categorizes and assesses the critical response to fiction, drama, poetry,
and some nonfiction written for children between the ages of one and sixteen.
The children's literature covered ranges in format and style from the
picture book to the young adult novel. The emphasis is on twentieth-century
children's literature, although classics from earlier centuries have been
included."
Children's
Literature from the Google Web Directory
The
Children's Literature Web Guide
David K. Brown's don't miss site. David K. Brown has done an excellent
job of collecting web resources relating to children's literature. Lists
of awards, best books, links to homepages devoted to authors and stories
on the web are just a few of the available options. A search engine is
located at the bottom of the first page. Be sure to check out The Doucette
Index, which provides access to websites that contain useful teaching
suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators
of those books.
Children's
Literature in a Time of National Tragedy
Prepared by: Mei-Yu Lu
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication Digest #165
While America
recovers from the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, parents and educators
are seeking assistance to help children cope with the impact of this national
tragedy. This Digest is intended to guide parents and teachers in helping
children deal with this issue through the use of literature. It begins
with suggestions, guidelines, and strategies which parents and teachers
can use to help children deal with this tragedy, and it discusses the
role of literature in helping children at a time of national disaster.
The second part of this Digest offers resources intended to help children
understand and appreciate cultural differences through the use of literature,
as well as to provide materials that will help children cope with stresses
in their lives and in particular, the events that took place on September
11th, 2001.
Children's
Picture Book Database
"Located at Miami University, the Children's Picture Book Database
indexes abstracts of over 4,000 picture books for children. Designed as
tool for teachers creating literature-based thematic units for all disciplines,
the database is searchable by a set of topical keywords (over 900) organized
by discipline or alphabetically, or by a boolean combination search. Entries
include title and author, an abstract, and a list of related keywords.
Many of the topic listings also provide related links. A well-organized
and useful site for preschool to third grade teachers, parents, and librarians."
Internet Scout Report
The
de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
is 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 on American and British children's literature, historical and contemporary.
Fairrosa
Cyber Library of Children's Literature from School librarian Roxanne
Hsu Feldman; includes links to:
- Authors and Illustrators
- Articles
- Book Lists
- Reading Room
Kay
E. Vandergrift's Special Interest Page
This is the gateway to an extensive, in-depth, don't miss site. Kay is
Professor and Associate Dean, School of Communication, Information and
Library Studies at Rutgers University. Her website includes beautiful
illustrations, thoughtful essays on issues in children's literature today,
and a list of readings she assigns for graduate courses she teaches. More
scholarly in tone than most Children's Literature sites, it includes links
for:
- Children's Literature
- History of Children's
Literature
- Snow White and The Golem
- Gender and Culture in
Picture Books
- Young Adult Literature
- Linking Literature with
Learning
The
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (NCCIL)
View exhibits online.
Parents
and Children Together Online
"Parents and Children Together Online, a magazine whose goal
is to promote family literacy and parent-child read-alongs, is now freely
available via the Web...The magazine is a part of The Family Literacy
Center at the ERIC Clearinghouse for Reading, English and Communication."
Internet Scout Report
Great
Web Sites for Kids
"An annotated directory of hundreds of links for children, young
teens, and adults caring for children, with topics such as games, music,
stories, sports, technology, politics, and religion; there is a small
collection of sites in Spanish. The site's selection criteria page includes
guidelines for judging the quality of Web sites. Maintained by the Great
Web Sites Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children
(ALSC), part of the American Library Association (ALA)." Librarians'
Index to the Internet
Book
Reviews
100
Favorite Children's Books from the New York Public Library.
The
ALAN Review
ALAN (The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents), A Special-interest
group of the National Council of Teachers of English. Founded in November
1973, ALAN is made up of teachers, authors, librarians, publishers, teacher-educators
and their students, and others who are particularly interested in the
area of young adult literature. The Assembly publishes The ALAN Review
three times each year (fall, winter, and spring) with a current circulation
of 2,500. The 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.
Amazon.com:
Children's Books
Booklist
The digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist
magazine. For more than 90 years, Booklist has been the librarian's
leading choice for reviews of the latest books and (more recently) electronic
media. Every year we review nearly 4,000 books for adults, more than 2,500
titles for children, more than 500 reference books and electronic reference
tools, and 1,000 other audiovisual materials. We also publish a wide variety
of feature articles including author interviews, bibliographies, book-related
essays by well-known writers, and a selection of columns. And be sure
to take a look at our Editors' Choice '99, which includes our picks of
the top books and videos of the previous year. The Booklist Web
Site is also the place to go for our ongoing cumulative index to the print
version of Booklist. You can download a current index to Booklist,
the magazine, with entries under author, title, and illustrator, as well
as find a hot-linked index to the Booklist Web Site. Check out
the many different indexes available on our Index page. Our site is also
searchable.
Book
Links: Connecting Books, Libraries, and Classrooms
Published
by Booklist Publications, Book Links is a magazine designed for
teachers, librarians, library media specialists, booksellers, parents,
and all other adults interested in connecting children with high quality
books. On these pages you will find previews of ideas and information
that will appear in future issues of Book Links; two cumulative
indexes of all issues of the magazine, one consisting of articles arranged
by feature title, the other of subjects, authors/illustrators, and book
titles highlighted in Book Links; submissions guidelines, and links
to other Booklist publications. We have also added selected feature articles
from recent issues of Book Links, as well as an archived listing
of Book Links' articles beginning with the September 1998 issue.
CBC
Online--Children's Book Council
"The CBC, administrator of National Children's Book Week since 1945,
offers suggestions for ways to celebrate National Children's Book Week
to teachers, parents and librarians. Year round this site provides a rich
source of information and links related to children's literature. Within
one of the five general user catagories, visitors can take a sneak preview
at new children's books in the Hot Off the Presses section, consult an
extensive bibliography of established children's books, learn about the
75 children's authors and illustrators that everyone should know, or browse
the bi-monthly topical bibliography section." Internet Scout
Report
Carol
Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This site offers numerous children's literature resources created by Carol
Hurst, "a nationally-known storyteller, lecturer, author and language
arts consultant." The site's main section consists of a large collection
of book reviews and ideas for how to use them in the classroom. Reviews
of Featured Books also includes discussion topics, activities, related
books and links to other subjects and resources. Users will also find
resource collections (book titles, activities, related links) for specific
curriculum areas and selected themes. In addition, the site contains a
number of professional resources including a quarterly children's literature
newsletter. Scout Report for Social Sciences
Center
for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents = Centro
para el Estudio de Libros Infantiles y Juveniles en Espanol
"Readers interested in children's books in Spanish can visit this
site provided by Isabel Schon of California State University, San Marcos,
to browse and search versions of 'recommended books in Spanish for children
and adolescents published around the world.' The database, at present,
contains bibliographic information on over 3,000 books that have been
selected for 'quality of art and writing, presentation of material, and
appeal to the intended audience.' It can be searched by any of thirteen
fields, or browsed by author or title. Each bibliographic item contains
a short description, along with information on whether the book was reviewed
in any of the numerous books Ms. Schon has written on the topic."
Internet Scout Report
The
Children's Bookwatch
A very extensive list of reviews on new children's books for toddlers
through young adult, updated monthly. Includes reviews on:
Book Lists
101
Out-Of-This-World Books For Kids Ages 8-13
Compiled by the Arrowhead Library System, Janesville, Wisconsin.
African-American
Voices in Children's Fiction
Compiled by the Arrowhead Library System, Janesville, Wisconsin.
Booklists
of Children's Literature from Children's Services, Monroe County Public
Library, Indiana.
Booktrusted
book lists Annotated lists from Booktrust, an independent UK educational
charity working for - and with - all those concerned with children and
what they read.
Children's
Booklists on the Web: A guide to theme-related bibliographies Annotated
by Children's Services, Monroe County Public Library, Indiana.
Children's
Choices, Teachers'
Choices, and Young
Adults' Choices from the International
Reading Association.
Goals:
- To develop an annual
annotated reading list of new books that will encourage young people
to read.
- To help teachers, librarians,
booksellers, parents, and others find books that young readers will
enjoy.
- To provide young readers
with an opportunity to voice their opinions about the books being written
for them.
Books
for Children and Young Adults from the Cooperative Children's Book
Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. There
are thousands of new books published for children and young adults each
year, and tens of thousands available through public and school libraries,
or for purchase at bookstores, at any given time. The CCBC helps librarians,
teachers, child care providers and others navigate the abundance of choices
to locate the best books possible to meet their needs.
Awards
Awards
for Children's Books from the School of Information and Library Science
at UNC, Chapel Hill, this project deals with the award origins, criteria,
medal descriptions, and award books for Newbery and Caldecott Awards.
The project is limited to Newbery and Caldecott Awards from 1985-1994.
The
Caldecott Medal Home Page
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator
Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library
Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to
the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Children's
Book Awards from The Children's Literature Web Guide. Includes International
Awards, Canadian Awards, United States Awards, British Awards, Australian
Awards, New Zealand Awards, Children's Choice Awards, & Best Books
of the Year Lists.
Children's
Book Prizes from Booktrust, an independent UK educational charity
working for - and with - all those concerned with children and what they
read.
The
Newbery Medal Home Page
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller
John Newbery. It is 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.
Fables, Fairy Tales & Folktales
Andersen's
Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen from Project Gutenberg.
The
de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
is 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 on American and British children's literature, historical and contemporary.
Look for the links to Fables Fairy Tales & Folktales.
Fairy
Tales and Mythology on the Internet
from Montgomery College Library, Conroe, Texas.
Feminist
Interpretation of Fairy Tales
This two-part discussion of feminist interpretations/discussions of fairy
tales took place on WMST-L in June, 1994. WMST-L is a large, international
e-mail forum or "list" for discussion of Women's Studies teaching, research,
and program administration.
Folklinks
Folk and Fairy-Tale Sites
Links compiled by Professor D. L. Ashliman, a folklore research specialist.
Grimm's
Fairy Tales
This online book contains 209 tales collected by the brothers Grimm. The
exact print source is unknown. The etext appears to be based on the translation
by Margaret Hunt called Grimm's Household Tales, but it is not
identical to her edition.
Marvels
& Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.
Marvels & Tales is a central forum for the multidisciplinary study
of fairy tales. In its pages, contributors from around the globe have
published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe,
North America, Asia, and Africa. Find abstracts for articles and order
them via Interlibrary Loan.
Suggested
Texts for Feminist Interpretations/Discussions of Fairy Tales
compiled by Stacey Horstmann, Emory University. June 1994.
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