ENGL 484: Children's Literature

Books organized by subject, age, trending topics, and author and illustrator interviews.

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Recommendations of books by lexile level.

The Children's Literature Web Guide attempts to gather together and categorize the number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults.

Bibliographies on topics such as seasons, sports, food, arts, grief and loss, and survival, created by CCBC librarians. Book reviews, webcasts of CCBC-sponsored speeches by children's and young adult book creators, and many more unique resources for educators.

Memorabilia, correspondence, groundbreaking articles, interviews, letters, and more. Highlights include Laura Ingalls Wilder's Wilder's recipe for gingerbread, an original Beatrix Potter illustration, and Johanna Hurwitz' membership card to the now defunct "Horn Book League" for budding child authors.

Has more than 70 carefully selected lists of multicultural and social justice books by theme and reading level.

An annual list "best of" list of feminist titles for readers 18 and under.

An annotated bibliography of books for girls written in the last two hundred years which reflect the roles for girls considered proper at the time. Topics include: etiquette, nurses, detectives, adventure, tomboys, and working girls. These titles are drawn from the collection at the Sallie Bingham Center For Women's History and Culture at Duke University.

This site, created by Pat Pfieger, contains images and exerpts from a number of children's materials published within the specified time period.