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Internet Resources for Librarians
Children's Literature (and Other Wonderful Things)

Ray Ostrander, Ph.D. Associate Professor (Andrews University)
Lecture, presented at the ASDAL 2000 Convention, July 12, 2000

PURPOSE

To create participant awareness regarding some of the many web
resources for children's literature
To explore specific resources so participants will have a better
understanding of what the sites contain
To stimulate participants vision to enable them to future how they
can use these resources in a library setting

Children's Literature Guide on the Web
A cyber source for children's reading and reading related information:

Childen's Books
Best Books Lists
Children's Bestsellers
Online Children's Stories
Children's Songs and Poetry
Readers' Theatre

Written by Children, Related Associations on the Internet, and Other
Internet Sites for Families and Kids

The On-Line Books Page
This site includes more than 11,000 English works in various formats
All are free for personal, noncommercial use
The user can search by:

Author
Title
Subject
Serial Archives

The Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library is the first public library of the Internet
Some of the stated reasons for this site are:

to provide library services to the Internet community
to learn and teach what librarians have to contribute
in a digital environment
to promote librarianship and the importance of libraries
to share interesting ideas and techniques with other
librarians.

Aesop's Fabels On-Line
Includes a total of 655+ fables, indexed in table format, with morals
listed. Also in this site are:

Real Audio Narratives
Classic Images
Random Images
Random Fables
Search Engine
Message Forum

Recently added were 1327 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
along with 209 Grimms Fairy Tales.

Folk Tales from Around the Word
The stories in this collection represent a small sampling of the rich
storytelling art that is the common heritage of humanity. Included
are folk tales from:

Africa
Central Asia
China
Middle East
Ireland

just to name a few

Fairrosa Cyber Library
This is a very nicely arranged site with links to authors and illustators,
booklists, discussions, reviews, on-line books, and much more.

Multicultural Book Review Homepage
The purpose of this page is to create a qualitative list of multicultural
literature for K - 12 educators and librarians
This site presents more than just lists of books. It presents to its
readers the opportunity to discover more information about multicultural
literature

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This site is an excellent resource for librarians to be able to reference
for and to teachers
In this site is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of
ways to use them in the classsroom and collections of books and
activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and
professional topics

The Children's Literature Resource
Children's literature is a field of writing intended to be enjoyed by children
up into their early teens and which may have existed since as far back as the 1400's.
As with any genre of literature there are various sub-genres including fantasy stories,
picture books, realistic fiction, biographies, non-fiction, etc.
Many children's stories feature pictures to accompany the tales.
The resources provided here can be used to immerse yourself in the world of children's
literature where you can learn about the authors, learn where to go to begin writing
your own children's stories, and much more.