Children's Literature

Selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for children from preschool through sixth grade.

Publishes "first-rate scholarship in Children's Literature Studies" and offers book reviews.

This peer-reviewed journal features interviews with children's authors, presents critiques of children's literature, and contains articles on prose, fiction, poetry, and picture books.

This journal publishes "theoretically based articles that address key issues" in the field of children's literature and has an "international reputation as the pre-eminent publication in the field."

This site "gives teachers, librarians, parents, and students a place for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects." The site allows search capabilities for over 950 keywords and offers abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books.

This database allows the user to search for quality children's literature based on any of several search parameters, such as, gender of protagonist, ethnicity/nationality of protagonist or tale, historical period, setting, award, suggested age of reader, and genre.

"Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages." Review the Children's Literature journals or perform a search for additional journals on specific topics.

"The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community." Click on "Read Books!" to go to a colorful page of choices (categories, ages, features, etc.) to help find just the right book.

Committed to a "serious, ongoing discussion of literature for children," this journal includes "comparative studies of significant books and genres, new developments in theory, the art of illustration, the mass media, and popular culture."

From the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) cooperative, "Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950."

This collection of children's books is comprised of "original stories by Yiddish authors that include Sholem Aleichem, Jacob Pat, and Sholem Asch. The collection also includes Yiddish translations of non-Jewish children’s stories by such authors as Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, and Jacob Grimm."