http://www.dalton.org/libraries/fairrosa/   Fairrosa past and present authors and illustrators information and links, for and about and by. First choice when looking for author or illustrator material. 120 plus listed. Some have complete text and illustrations or link to. Also this site is their birthday page. Edited by Roxanne Hsu Feldman, a children's librarian at New York Public Library.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calendar.htm Authors' Calendar select the calendar day and see which authors have that as their birthday.  Find a quote, short biography and list of selected works.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/authors.html Books Online Authors an A to Z index of online texts by author.

http://www.childrensbookguild.org/index.html The Children's Book Guild, check out their listing of member authors and illustrators, with links to their home pages and publishers.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html Children's Literature Web Guide: provides a directory of author and illustrator sites. Over 100 sites, some historic, all are described in a sentence or two. Also links you to other sites to find authors.

http://www.rarebooks.org/authors.htm IBCA link site for past and present authors and illustrators, excellent link to personally developed sites many non-commercial

http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/ilintro.htm Illustration on Bob Speel's website, UK 19^th century slant with just over 200 artists, including painters, illustrators, engravers, sculptors and architects. Biographies short but detailed with illustration.

http://www.internetbookinfo.com/   Internet Book Information Center: Literature Authors Page

http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/youth/AskAuthor/ Internet Public Library site provides interviews, biographies and links to other resources.

http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/ The Online Literary Criticism Collection from IPL has links to critical and biographical sites about authors and their works. Browseable by author, title, or literary period. Contains 1253 websites.

http://promo.net/pg/index.html   Project Gutenberg: Author and Titles listing.

http://www.trussel.com/f_books.htm Author Pseudonyms at Books and Bookcollecting as of 11/98 7227 entries (2680 real + 4547 pseudo)

http://home.earthlink.net/~criswell/authors/author.htm Author signatures  Linda Criswell has assembled a page of some 200 scanned author signatures, many of them with authentication information, at her My Book House site, which also includes many author links.

http://www.rosenbach.org/main.html  Rosenbach Museum and Library holdings include one of the largest and most important collections of Carolliana worldwide. And the major repository for the illustrations and manuscripts of Maurice Sendak. Developing site with Lewis games in the Kids section and Teachers page coming soon.

http://www.studyweb.com Study Web "Focusing the Web for education."  Go to their Writers & Writing or Literature to find links to authors and illustrators.  Easy to locate your topic of interest among the 73,000 sites, with concise descriptions of each site and rating the visual content and appropriate grade level.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Children_s/   Yahoo's links to authors.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm Young Adult Authors and Illustrators Internet Home Pages. Inez Ramsey, a Professor of Library Science at James Madison University, provides links to biographical information on authors for children and young adults, meta site.

 

RESOURCES

Resources note: Web sites are now offering to publish authors and illustrators on-line, this is a great way to try your hand but weigh all the aspects, as if publishing in print. Who holds the copyright, what benefits do you receive, is the site getting hits or awards or recognition as a site to view and what are they doing to increase site traffic, you know, read the fine print. Let's look to publishers to simultaneously print on-line and in print.

http://www.scbwi.org The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators formed in 1968, national organization based out of LA, open to all who share an interest in. Current membership 10,000+, worldwide. Bulletin is a bi-monthly update on contests, awards, market reports, and events in the field both legal and cultural.

http://www.scbwi.org/bulletin.htm SCBWI getting started, promote, script, query, web and computer technology, copyright, and more, each topic covered in one concise page.

http://www.scbwi.org/grants.htm Grants: available each year to both full and associate members of the SCBWI. "Work-in-Progress Grants": Four grants--General, Contemporary Novel, Nonfiction Research, Previously Unpublished Author--to assist individual members complete specific projects. "Don Freeman Memorial Grant-In-Aid": To aid individual artist members working in this picture-book field. "Barbara Karlin Grant": To recognize and encourage the work of aspiring picture-book authors.

http://www.achuka.co.uk/ Achuka, children's books UK. A site bookmarked by writers, illustrators, and the book trades for its original, reliable, informative, thought provoking content. Shows current prize winners and has featured artists, with old reviews online. Interviews and more, UK slant but world vision.

http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/   Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, book review journal, this is a source to watch for trends. Each month it focuses on a particular artist or author.

http://www.eric-carle.com Eric Carle with 25 + years experience, answers many of the questions about being an author and illustrator at his site in plain simple terms.

http://www.CBCBooks.org/ The Children's Book Council: a resource introduction for writers, illustrators, publishers, librarians, parents and teachers. Many source items for sell.

http://www.absolute-sway.com/pfp/html/childrens.htm Children's Books Links: this site links to writers and illustrators' resource centers, publishers, reviews, award winners, kids sites, and more.

http://www.write4kids.com Children's Writing Resource Center, only a starting point with its chat, reviews, and bulletin board. Many pages contain self-promoting "offers."

http://members.aol.com/thedrawing/ The Drawing Board For Illustrators, links to many sites from on-line materials to the questions of copyright, large list of mail lists, good links and on-line information for the children's illustrator to be.

http://www.dalton.org/libraries/fairrosa/ Fairrosa past and present authors and illustrators information and links, for and about and by. First choice when looking for author or illustrator material. 120 plus listed. Some have complete text and illustrations or link to.

http://www.rarebooks.org/authors.htm IBCA link site for past and present authors and illustrators, excellent link to personally developed sites many non-commercial

http://www.inkspot.com/ (this wonderful resourse has disappeared) Ink Spot for authors and illustrators, with specific pages for children's books and the young writer. Links to children's author and illustrator directories. A valuable part of the site is Inklings with its interviews with authors and articles for writers. The Craft of Writing with its FAQ pages, courses for writers, teaching writing in the classroom and writing centers. Networking with its many links is invaluable.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-bng/misc.writing.html Misc. Writing Home Page, lists and advice from the newsgroup misc.writing, useful information for the writer and writer to be, also links to other misc. news group FAQ. (postings by way of Department of Computer Science at University of Utrecht.)

http://www.pw.org/ Poets & Writers magazine Online, no magazine but some good links; check out their classifieds

http://www.underdown.org The Purple Crayon written by a children's book editor. With his insights into the business of children's books his articles for writers and illustrators provide some excellent advice, some "really basic advice." Included at this site are links to resources for the author and illustrator.

http://www.bookmom.com/retreat/index.shtml   Reader's Retreat, articles for and about writing.

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html Repositories of Primary Sources lists over 4600 websites that describe holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photos, and other primary sources for research scholars.

http://www.robinsnest.com Robin's Nest for Writers and Web Surfers, many good links reached from here.  Check out the writers resources she has listed.

http://www.societyillustrators.org/ Society of Illustrators (started 1901), Museum of American Illustration, history, membership, career guidance, traveling shows, collection

http://www.planetzoom.com/storybookpark.html Storybook Park publishes original stories on-line.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Voice of the Shuttle woven by Alan Liu of UC Santa Barbara, once there go to Technology of Writing Page (electronic publishing, hypertext, hypermedia, etc.)

http://www.webtales.com/ Amazing Web Tales Online serials, free individual display pages for writers & publishers, writing forums, message boards, features, add your link, kiosk, more.

http://www.writers.net/ Writers Net: trying to become an important "matchmaking resource for writers, editors, publishers, and literary agents on the internet, and a cooperative effort among writers." Excite does online search of published writers, literary agents, editors and publishers, from that where you go is up to you. Also sections for discussion groups and writing assignments.

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