Resources for English 325: Children's Literature

Final Exam Help

• Preparing for exams
• Study questions for the final (from old exams)

Class Information

• Course requirements and expectations
• Term Project Guidelines and Updates
• Online Visual Literacy Project (Pomona College)
• History of Children's Literature (Kay Vandergrift)

Web Resources

General Reference

• 1999 ALA Awards (Newbery, Caldecott, and Others)
• Children's Book Awards lists (David Brown, University of Calgary)
• Children's Literature Web Guide (David Brown, University of Calgary)
• DeGrummond Children's Collection (University of Southern Mississippi)
• Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature (includes indexes of authors and illustrators)
• Index to Children's Book Authors and Illlustrators (Internet School Library Media Center)
• The Purple Crayon (Harold Underhill )
• Scholastic Books
• The Scoop: Children's Book News (Cindy Orban)
• Thematic Book Lists (Fairrosa)
• The Web: Celebrating Children's Literature (Wendy Betts) - now defunct, but some old articles are archived here
• Kay Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page (good source for issues-oriented research)

• Achuka - Children's Books in the UK
• ALAN Review: Literature for Adolescents
• Booklist - American Library Association
• The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
• CM: Canadian Reviews
• The Horn Book

• The Cinderella Project (University of Southern Mississippi)
• Cinderella Bibliography (Russell A. Peck, University of Rochester)
• The Jack in the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant Killer Project (USM)
• Red Riding Hood Project (USM)
• Russian Fairy Tales (David Birnbaum and others at University of Pittsburgh)
• Snow White (Kay Vandergrift)

• Fish Stories, a page of "Bible" stories for kids (Linda Abel)

• Scholastic's links to author pages
• Unofficial Beverly Cleary Page (Karen R. Pederson)
• Jean Fritz (Putnam Berkley)
• Katherine Paterson links
• Welcome to Seussville (Random House)
• The Dr. Seuss Page (David Bedno)
• Louis Sachar: Reviews of Holes (Amazon)
• E. B. White Page (R. Linner)
• Audrey Wood
• Don Wood

•  Censorship, The Internet, Intellectual Freedom, and Youth (Kay Vandergrift)

• Feminist Studies and Children's Literature (Kay Vandergrift)
• Gender and Culture in Picture Books (Kay Vandergrift)
• Young Adult Literature (Kay Vandergrift)
• The Ring around the Rosie FAQ (Looks as if Peter may be right after all)

• Childlit
• Kidlit-L

• Children's Writing Resource Center

6/11/99  Karen Saupe