Sunday, October 31, 2010

Children's Literature Websites

Here are just some of the websites I found that focused on children's literature.

1. Children's Book Council
http://www.cbcbook.org
This group puts out reading lists for teachers, librarians, parents, and booksellers. There are two sections on their mainpage. One section is for new books, while the other has a theme. The theme right now is fall and is called "Sounds and Sights of Autumn".

2. Reading Rockets
http://www.readingrockets.org
This sight is for teachers who are trying to teach children to read and also for children struggling to read. They break their books into different sections. Each section takes on a certain theme. An example being emotions and this category is divided into sections. An example of this would be the section under themes entitled "moving".

3. International Children's Digital Library
http://www.en.childrenslibrary.org
This site gathers children's books from across the world so that children who move have the ability to read books in their native language. This is to help further their understanding of their culture. These books are available to children all over the world.

4. KidLitosphere
http://www.kidlitosphere.org
This is a central site for bloggers who write on children's and young adult literature. Going through the blogs was neat because the bloggers do some pretty interesting stuff with the books they write about.

1 comment:

  1. Rebecca, I went to the same places as you did, and had a similar reaction! I found the contrast between the bookstore and library to be particularly interesting, but I do think it makes sense for a public library to have a more diverse selection; hopefully we can work for a day when our bookstores will be the same

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