J. Conrad Dunagan Library: Education: Children's Literature
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A CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site indicates that a site has been selected by the editor's of CHOICE a review journal published by the Association of College and Research Libraries as a highly recommended site. A indicates that a site has been selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Web Site from among those sites previously selected as highly recommended.

Link to selected Dunagan Library Social Science Databases and full-text materials

Children's Literature

 

Comprehensive, Research & Award Sites

Bibliography of Children's LiteratureCriticism
University of Winnipeg
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
 remote access restricted to UTPB currently enrolled students
CCBC: Cooperative Children's Book Center  CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site
One reviewer described the site as Current, varied, and of high quality, CCBC is a site to visit regularly Funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site
Hurst's site offers a wealth of helpful information for elementary teachers and their students, including how to bring literature into the classroom and how literature can easily be incorporated into other subject areas such as science and mathematics. This site is huge, itself presenting an enormous amount of material as well as linking to other sites.
Chilren's Literature Web Guide  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
Dr. D. K. Brown, University of Calgary authors this site; its goal is to use electronic resources to further the reading of books. With more than a million visitors to the page since April 1998, he seems to be succeeding. Features include What's New!, What We're Reading: Commentary on Children's Books, and Web-Traveler's Toolkit: Essential Kid Lit Websites.
International Children's Digital Library
an ambitious effort to digitize children's books from around the world; currently about 400 titles; most titles are picture books; the search interface includes searches by title, author, illustrator, language, and publication date; one can also browse by language, title, author, category, or country of origin
ISLMC Children's Literature and Langauge Art Resources
Internet School Library Media Center; a search engine, index and site map are provided for this award winning and very extensive site
The Literacy Web CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site
the site is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literary instruction; University of Connecticut
Literature for Children
provides access to over 550 high-quality digitized children's literature titles, 19th century to about 1950; exceptional color images combined with some unique titles make this a noteworthy resource for researchers.
Merrycoz.org: Works for Children, 1800-1872 CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site
The site offeres transcriptions and images from a variety of 19th-century children's books and magazines; Dr. Pat Pflieger (English, Univ. of Pennsylvania) the site's author aruges that children's books and magazines from this period are important because they what 19th-century American citizens, voters, and politicians read in their most impressionable years This site offers far more commentary and contextual information about these publications than the similar areas on Project Gutenberg or the International Children's Digital Library.
Once Upon a Time . . . A Children's Literature Web Site
1997-2007; archived and maintained by Dr. Mary Ellen Van Camp
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
has more than 60,000 entries articles, books, news reports, obituaries, motion picture reviews, and other materials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror; indexes both scholarly and fan writings, it covers all aspects of these genres except for book reviews. Not even the MLA Bibliography has coverage to match this index.
Social History of Children's Literature
Rutgers University
Storytellers: Native American Authors Online CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site
not specifically a children's literature site, the site contains a rich array of information on native american writers and storytellers
The Web English Teacher CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
a review stated: English teacher Carla Beard, who created this Web site, tells users to "think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale." Because it is so focused, this site offers comprehensiveness and depth of materials that most English teachers will find helpful. The site is mostly geared toward middle and high school levels...
Between the Lions
Won the 2001 Notable Children's Web Site award from the ALA
Caldecott Medal Home Page
 
Coretta Scott King Award
 
Newbery Medal Home Page
 
The History of Nursery Rhymes & Mother Goose 
a brief paper from Waterloo University, Canada
The Mother Goose Pages: Nursery Rhymes 
a page based at the University of Michigan
Aesop's Fables Online Collection  
more than 655 fables; many now with Real Audio narrations
Peter Rabbit Website: Beatrix Potter 
a .com site; but the Beatrix Potter page gives links to her early childhood sketches, come of her picture letters and information about her life
 

Electronic Journals

Project Muse provides access to numerous journals of interest to children's literature and education.
Book History 1998-present; Childrens Literature 2003-present; Children's Literature Association Quarterly beginning in 2005; The High School Journal 2001-present; Libraries and the Cultural Record 2001-present; The Lion and the Unicorn 1995-present; Marvels and Tales 2001-present; Oral Tradition 2003-present; Tolkien Studies 2004-present
ProQuest Research Library
Provides access to The Horn Book 1992-present; Bookbird 1998-present; Literary Calvacade [aimed at high school students] 1998-present; Storyworks 1998- present. Related materials include: Writing 1998-present and The Writer 1988-present; Analog: Science Fiction & Fact 1998-present; Extrapolation 1997-present; Fantasy and Science Fiction 1998-present.
EbscoHost: Academic Search Complete
Provices access to Children and Libraries  2003-present;   Children's Literature in Education  1993-present;  The Explicator  1976-present;  Fabula  2003-present;   Library Media Connection 1989-present;   School Library Journal 1974-present;  Young Adult Library Services 2004-present  
Primarily reviews   Book Links  1994-present, from ALA;   Booklist  2002-present, from ALA;  Library Journal 1976-present;   Kirkus Reviews 2001-present 
 

Author and Illustrator Sites

Authors and Illustrators on the Web
 
Fairrosa Cyber Library: Authors and Illustrators
 
Children's and Young Adult's Authors and Illustrators
 
Meet Authors and Illustrators
 
 

Organization and Association Web Sites

American Association of School Librarians
 
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College
 
Children's Book Council Online
 
Children's Literature Association
 
International Reading Association Choice Highly Recommended Academic Web Site
The IRA site is attractive, well organized, well maintained, and user friendly
 

Selected Links to: Web Design and How-To-Do-It Sites, Useability Issues, Desktop Publishing

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys
hosted by The Discovery Channel; in addition to lesson plans on how to evaluate and utilize web sites, this excellent site provides printable surveys appropriate for all major grade levels-- elementary, middle and secondary.
HTML Code Tutorial  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
The goal of the site is to "provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere." To this end, it offers a fairly broad scope including sections on links, Java applets, fonts, images, scripts, Cascading Style Sheets, and tables. Each tutorial includes many examples displayed right in HTML so one can see the code that created them as well as how they look on the screen
The Web Developer's Virtual Library
The "CHOICE" review reads as follows: At a time when Web reference and electronic magazine sites are proliferating at a staggering rate, it is refreshing to find one with such professional polish. Slow to load at first, the lushly graphical page design of the Web Developer's Virtual Library has the feel of a glossy magazine, ... This site is an "encyclozine," a combination encyclopedia and electronic magazine, featuring several articles each month that are then integrated into the site's hierarchical content. One of the oldest Web developer archives on the Web, the library boasts more than 1,200 pages with nearly 6,000 links, providing comprehensive information ranging from a beginner's introduction to the World Wide Web to the latest trends in [web technologies].... Quality of writing and painstaking attention to navigational aids set this resource apart from sophomoric or pedantic competitors. Navigating through the content is made easy by the pyramid of buttons repeated at the bottom of each page, by a site map, and by intuitive use of links. General readers, from Web novice to Web master, will find this a site worth bookmarking.
Web Publishing Curriculum Resources CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site
The site's instructional materials are made up of objectives, an outline of the materials presented, and exercises. It provides an overview of elementary Web publishing techniques that are necessary for a beginning Web publisher. Also, there are links to other more advanced Web publishing resources such as Builder.com and WebMonkey. The site contains a list of recommend reading, as well as a list of development tools that can make Web publishing much easier. This excellent introductory Web publishing site will be very useful to individuals teaching introductory Web publishing and those seeking to publish materials on the Web. However, advanced users will find the material too basic.
Lissa Explains It All
Composed by a 13-year-old, this site displays interesting design choices, as well as providing a very straightforward "how-to-build-it" guide aimed at a K-8 audience.
AnyBrowser.org
Campaign for a non-Browser Specific World Wide Web, includes Accessible Design Guide
Jakob Nielsen's Web Useability Site CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
The original and leading advocate of web useablitity.
Fontcraft's Free Web Fonts
Fonts designed by a leading electronic type foundry for readability and useability.
Yahoo's Desktop Publishing Area
 
Yahoo's World Wide Web Area
 includes a link to Beginner's Guides as well as a good introduction to Netiquette
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