Children's Literature: Websites

A collection of illustrated antique books

For elementary and middle school students this collection contains fiction and nonfiction.

Preview books by seeing the interior of the book, reading comments and creating your own bookshelf.

"Offers over 49,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers."

The British Library has released over a million public domain illustrations and other images to the public through Flickr for anyone to reuse, remix or repurpose from public domain books in its digitized collection, which includes over 65,000 books from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

"This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."

"Encouraging high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children's literature."

Information center within the Lirbary of Congress for Children's Literature.

"The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards."

Librarian's choice of useful web sites.

"The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas"

This site focuses on children's literature in education. Teachers, library media professionals, parents and students will find information on children's literature and associated language arts here.

Many annotated fairy tales, "including information about their histories, similarities with various tales, bibliographies and other tidbits."