Links to Children’s Literature
The Big Three:
David Brown's website at the University of Calgary
Quite extensive, and lots of links to other sites.
Carol Hurst's website
This is full of practical pedagogical suggestions for using children's literature in the classroom.
Kay Vandergrift's website at Rutgers University
This is perhaps the most extensive. Lists of suggested books, critical material, an incredible selection on variants of the Snow White tale.
Other great resources:
American Library Association (ALA)
The oldest and largest library association in the world. Contains extensive information about award winning texts, as well as library advocacy news and events.
Bookbox
This is a wonderful resource for chapter book readers and young writers. The site contains a database of British authors with succinct yet engaging autobiographical information, book recommendations organized by preferred themes, and innovative and engaging games. One of the most exciting sections, however, is the “Writer’s Toolkit,” which dispenses video advice from different authors on the craft of writing.
The Children's Literature Web Guide
This website features resources for parents, teachers, storytellers, writers, and illustrators. In addition, it has a variety of different on-line book discussion groups.
Children's Literature Web Site
This site has a database for children's literature and extensive information on illustrators and authors.
ISLMC Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources
This site not only includes children's literature awards and book reviews, it also has resources organized by genre.
Kerlan Collection, University of Minnesota
"One of the world's great children's literature research collections."
Mazza Collection, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH
This teaching gallery aims to promote literacy and nurture a love of children’s literature. It includes a visual tour of famous picturebook illustrations and access to the organization’s newsletter.
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature
This non-profit organization’s website celebrates the work of prominent children’s literature illustrators, highlighting biographical information, a showcase of their work, activities for children, and exhibit information.
Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books
Over 80,000 rare and notable modern chlldren's books classified in three parts: the Osborne Collection of books published to the end of 1910; the Lillian H. Smith Collection of modern notable titles; and the Canadiana Collection of materials written, published or substantially related to Canada.
Perry Nodelman
This website of Perry Nodelman includes information about his children's books as well as theory related to children's literature - including feminist and critical literacy perspectives.
The SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages by Heidi Anne Heiner
Self-described as “an ardent hobbyist,” Heidi Anne Heiner is a children’s librarian who began this site as a graduate student at the University of Tennessee. The site takes a historic approach, with emphasis on the history of specific fairy tales and their variants, and classic illustrations. You can also find annotated versions, similarities across cultures, modern interpretations, and extensive bibliographies. A wonderful and complete resource for fairy tale lovers!
Children's Authors:
The following websites are about specific children's authors.
 | In this website, the popular author of bilingual Spanish-English texts discusses her background and the inspirations for her many children’s books. The site is jam-packed with pictures of Alma Flor Ada in various contexts, links to extensive information about her books, and details of her experiences as a writer, researcher, and professor. |
 | Jan Brett, author and illustrator of many children's books, maintains a wonderful website with teaching ideas, language arts materials, and contests. Children love the masks and puppets that can be downloaded from this site! |
| The official website vibrates with Eric Carle’s unique illustrations, and his life and art come alive through snippets about each text, answers to frequently asked questions, a bulletin board to exchange ideas (titled, appropriately, the “Caterpillar Exchange”), upcoming news and events, and a breathtaking museum of picture book art. |
| Enter the colorful world populated by the characters of Beverly Cleary’s famous books, and let them help you discover information about the author! Includes games for kids and resources for teachers. |
| This fantastically active, colorful, engaging website is positively addictive! Select your tour guide by spinning a wheel, and one of Roald Dahl’s famous characters will guide you through sections about the author, teacher resources, games, and information about Roald Dahl’s many texts. Characters move freely through the pages as you navigate this exciting site. Take a test to see if you are a Miss Honey or a Trunchbull, visit RD TV, and play educational games such as the Wonkalator. This site is a must see. |
| Contains information about Tomi dePaola’s books and illustrations, his biography, and ways of contacting the author. |
| Mem Fox's website has wonderful graphics and plenty of information about the author and her books. In addition, you can access audio of her actually reading her books! |
| This site includes textual and biographical information, updates on news events, a full bibliography, notes on locating used and rare books, and a discussion on the “tesseract,” the central concept of A Wrinkle in Time for thinking 5-dimensionally about time and space. |
| This humorous website is just what you would expect from the author of books such as Dogzilla and The Adventures of Captain Underpants. It features fun and games as well as information about him and his books. |
| This website features Faith Ringgold's artwork as well as information about her children's literature. |
| This official site is full of Steig’s signature illustrations. Read information about his new book and his previous works and browse through reading guides, author information, articles, and book reviews. Games include matching characters to plots of particular texts – great for author studies! |
