Illustrations note: other on-line sources for illustrators work is book dealers that specialize in children's books or illustrations, galleries that show and sell children's illustrators, and of course the illustrators own page or fan created page.

http://www.lucasbooks.com/part11.html Lucas Books The Essentials of Book Collecting, Book Illustrations and Illustrators. A must read introduction to illustrators.

http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks Children's Picture Book Database Searchable bibliography of over 4000 children's picture books that are held by the Instructional Materials Center of the Miami University Libraries.

http://www.dalton.org/libraries/fairrosa/ Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature: 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.nlc-bnc.ca/events/illustra/eintro.htm The Art of Illustration: A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Children's Book Authors, on-line version of the exhibit by the National Library of Canada.

http://www.betweenthecovers.com Dan Gregory's Between the Covers, RareBooks site has one of the most extensive collections of modern first-edition dust-jacket images on-line.

http://www.bookgarden.com/ Book Garden Gallery, offers a nice selection of books for sell, has illustrated stories on-line, links to interesting sites.

http://www.princeton.edu/~cotsen Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University collection is "one of the great concentrations of primary source material (20,000 items), principally in the form of illustrated books, but including prints, drawings, manuscripts, games, puzzles, hornbooks, and toys, among a great many other objects. These range from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries in a variety of languages from French and German to Farsi and Urdu."

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/art/ Famous Artists' works available to view, what you expect to find in museums is available on the web.

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/history.html History of Children's Literature, Kay Vandergrift: excellent selection of off line resources, online articles include many illustrations and links to biographies of many illustrators. Good introduction to many 19^th and 20^th century illustrators.

http://www.aber.ac.uk/~tplwww/horton.html Horton Collection Exhibition, early children's printed books. Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales.

http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/schoenberg/schoenberg.html Illuminated manuscripts from the Penn Library, although not children's book illustrations, a site worth examining.

http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/bios.html Illustration House auction company's bio list, short bios and example illustrations. More illustrations in current and past auctions and prices realized. Links to Rockwell Museum.

http://special.lib.umn.edu/clrc/   Kerlan Collection, University of Minnesota: contains over 7000 children's books, color proofs, artwork and manuscripts.

http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/collections.html Lilly Library index for collections with limited graphics, usually just two to six illustrations.

http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/  Literture for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950. At the core of this Collection are books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, housed in the Department of Special Collections and Area Studies at the University of Florida. Books from the Departments of Special Collections at the Florida Atlantic University, Florida State University, and the University of South Florida join volumes from the Baldwin Library to complete the Collection.

http://www.nypl.org/branch/kids/gloria.html New York Public Library, 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/childhood/index.htm Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books from University of California Collections, 1550-1990. "Online version of the catalog produced to accompany an exhibition held at UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, April 16 through June 29, 1997"

http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm#illustopage Bud Plant Illustrated Books, children's to adults sci-fi, heavily illustrated site, good biographies, more.

http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/carroll/nursery/index.html Alice with Tenniel's illustrations in color, and easy on eyes background.

http://www.lib.usf.edu/spccoll/child.html University of South Florida Children's Literature Collection. Good collection of series literature, (animal, boys, girls, Horatio Alger, chap books) pop up books and early American textbooks.

http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/8910/liw.html Jill Morgan's lovely Laura Ingalls Wilder page has scans of jackets, books and pages from the early "Little House" series.

http://www.wondersociety.com/rws/fable/index.html Wonder Society, supporting the book arts with six illustrated online books. The Mole and the Owl went from online to print. Well developing sight, illustrator profiles, more

http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/child/ University of Delaware, World of the Child exhibition of 200 years of children's books. Historical exhibit with illustrations.

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