| Achuka
Children's Books UK http://www.achuka.co.uk
-
about children's book market in the UK, includes author database, new publications,
bookprize information, on-line magazine |
| Andrew
Crumey's Scottish Writers on the Internet Site
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9172/scot.html
- a personal site, useful for the history of Scottish literature; author index |
| Bookends
http://www.bookends.co.uk - the bookplace
magazine (children's section has news, reviews and competitions) |
| Book
Trust http://www.booktrust.org.uk
- independent, educational charity founded to promote books and reading,
encouraging readers of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy books -
includes: annotated book lists, directory of UK book awards and children's
book prizes, events. There is also a web site dedicated to children's
books and reading - http://www.booktrusted.com |
| Carol Hurst's
Children's Literature Site http://www.carolhurst.com
- includes listings of subjects used in children's books |
| Child-Lit
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mjoseph/childlit/about.html
- unmoderated mailing list maintained at Rutgers University dealing with research
issues in connection with authorship, illustration, publication, promotion, readership,
reception, criticism and literature's changing social functions and implications. |
| Children's
Books UK http://www.ukchildrensbooks.co.uk
- has lists of modern authors and illustrators with links to their sites. |
| Children's
literature (American)
http://www.childrenslit.com
|
| Devon
School Library Service
http://www.devon.gov.uk/eal/dsls/primarylinks.htm
- has useful
book related web sites for primary schools. |
| European
Virtual Children's Library http://www.stuttgart.de/chilias/
- based in Germany but with links to British sites. |
| FableVison
Animation http://www.fablevision.com
- lots of lively animation, stories and games. Visit the Fable Library. |
| Fairrosa's
Cyber Library of Children's Literature
http://www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/
-maintained by a NYPL librarian with a passion for children's literature, this is an
interesting site to browse with lots of useful links to other children's literature sites.
Good review section divided up thematically - books suggested by readers and
sometimes reviewed by them. Interesting author/illustrator links to their home
pages, interviews or official sites. |
| Federation of
Children's Book Groups
http://www.fcbg.mcmail.com |
| Highland
Schools Virtual Library
http://www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk
- produced by
the Education Service, this site includes a section called Reading
Webs. This contains lots of useful material to promote reading for
fun and reviews and recommendations to support Higher and Advanced Higher
contemporary English literature. |
| International
Association of School Librarianship (IASL)
http://www.rhi.hi.is/~anne/iasl.html
-
school librarianship issues and a vast amount of information on children's literature
(American) |
| National
Library for the Blind http://www.nlbuk.org
- has a useful Fiction-cafe |
| National
Literacy Trust http://www.literacytrust.org.uk
|
| Notes from
the Windowsill http://www.armory.com/~web/notes.html
- an electronic journal of book reviews. Archived back copies which can be
browsed. All reviews include bibliographic information and age indication.
"Notes from the Windowsill (formerly The WEB Online Review) is a resource by
and for people who love children's books. Our primary goal is to evaluate books
seriously, but with enthusiasm, concentrating both on how well the book is written and on
how much it entertains us". |
| Online
Library of Literature http://www.literature.org
- full text of classic books. |
| Oxford
Brookes University - Catchup Project
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/education/catchup.html
-(designed to help 7-8 year olds who are struggling with reading). |
| Reading is
Fundamental http://www.rif.org.uk
emphasis on the fun side of reading: interviews with authors, book
reviews, competitions and on-line stories by top authors. |
| Scottish Book
Trust http://www.webpost.net/bts -
administers the Writers in Scotland scheme and maintains and publishes The Writers'
Register. The site lists local authors registered with the scheme with a short
biography and bibliography as well as an indication of the age group for which they are
writing. |
| Stories From
the Web http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/stories
- public library website for children aged eight to eleven. The site is part of a
Libary and Information Commission funded project exploring how public libraries can use
the Web to provide reading promotion and development services to children. The site
allows children to read extracts of stories and poems online and then send in reviews,
their own stories and enter competitions. |
| Trapped in
the Real World http://www.cix.co.uk/~asc/trapped/
- reviews children's books by genre, by author and by illustrator. |
| University of
Strathclyde Library - Jordanhill Campus
http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/JHLibrary/childl.html
- children's literature pages. |
