Children's Literature

Finding Children's Books

* indicates restriction to UF affiliates and on campus users
See also guide for ProTeach students

• Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)*
• The Horn Book Guide Online *
• The Children's Book Room at Bowker's booksinprint.com *
• Bibliographies of Juvenile Literature at Amazon.com
• What Do I Read Next? *
• Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program

Awards Lists

• ALA Awards Lists
• Aesop Prize (Children's Folklore Section/ American Folklore Society)
• Randolph Caldecott Medal
• Past Caldecott Medal and Honor Books, 1938-Present
• Newbery Medal Home Page
• Past Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present
• Sibert Medal Home Page
• Geisel Medal Home Page
• Batchelder Medal Home Page
• Belpré Medal Home Page
• Coretta Scott King Award Home Page
• Printz Award Home Page
• Carnegie Medal Home Page
• Wilder Medal Home Page
• Hans Christian Andersen Medal (USBBY)
• IBBY Honour List
• NCSS Notable Tradebooks for Young People
• NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
• NCTE Orbis Pictus Non-fiction Award

Digital Libraries (full text access)

• Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature at UF
• International Children's Digital Library
• Literature For Children (PALMM)
• PALMM Yiddish Childrens' Books

Literary Criticism and Author Information

* indicates restriction to UF affiliates and on campus users

• Literature Online (LION) *
• Literature Resource Center *
• MLA International Bibliography Only *

Associations (some sites provide book lists)

ALSC Web Sites for Children

Children's Literature Assembly --see Notable Books
--an affiliate of the National Council for the Teachers of English

International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)

Read Write Think
--partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation.

United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)

The Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Award for Children's Non-fiction
--an annual award "honoring an author or author-illustrator whose total work has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children."