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Web Pages for Children's Literature
For web pages of individual authors, go to the relevant subpages of More Children's Books
Achuka
This is a superb independent
children's books website, with lots of information about (and links to)
authors, books and awards.
The ALAN Review e-journal
dedicated to the study of young adult literature.
American
Indians in Children's Literature
BookTrusted
Another superb web site with
lots of useful links.
Carnegie
Medal This is the
home page of the Carnegie Medal, one of the most prestigious awards for
children's books.
Centre for Children's Books based
at the University of Illinois; publishes The Bulletin of the Center
for Children's Books, one of the US's leading children's book review
journals for school and public librarians.
Centre for Research in Young People's
Texts and Cultures publishes the Canadian Children's Literature
journal.
Children's
Literature Association academic society that organises conferences
and publishes the Children's Literature journal (in association
with the Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature)
and the Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
The
Children's Literature Web Guide Useful internet resources related
to books for children and young adults, including a comprehensive internet
guide to children's book awards.
CIRCL
(Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture,
Media) A leading specialist research centre based at the University
of Reading.
Cool-Reads Excellent
web site run by young (10-15 year old) readers, with lots of book reviews
by 10-15 year old readers.
Floris
Books The publisher of the Kelpies series, which reprints Scottish
children's books.
Glasgow
University Library: Children's Literature: Sources of Information
(honours and graduate students at Strathclyde can get access to GU library)
Guardian
Children's Fiction Prize
IBBY:
International Board on Books for Young People; publishes Bookbird:
A Journal of International Children's Literature
International
Research Society for Children's Literature
Jordanhill
Library The Jordanhill section of the University of Strathclyde
Library contains the largest collection of contemporary children's books
in Scotland, with some 19,000 volumes, together with a substantial collection
of secondary criticism and scholarship on children's literature. The library
web site includes a Children's Literature Themes Index that allows readers
to search for children's books that deal with particular themes or topics.
The web site includes an excellent set of links to Children's Literature
Internet Sites.
Museum
of Childhood, Edinburgh
National
Library of Scotland: Collections of Children's Books
The
National Literacy Trust Includes lots of resources on Children's Literature
Scottish Book Trust Website
of the Scottish Book Trust, with pages on children's book information
and on two awards (The Blue Peter Book Award and the Fidler Award) run
by the Scottish Book Trust.
Scottish Publishers Association
Has a useful page on New Scottish Books, including children's books.
Newbery Medal Homepage
of the prestigious children's book award.
Opie
Collection of Children's Literature Online catalogue of a huge collection
of children's books held by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
Whitbread Awards
Includes the prestigious Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award.
For further information about the Children's Literature class, please contact Dr Tom Furniss at t.furniss@strath.ac.uk
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