http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/acqs.html   ACQWEB the gathering place for librarians and other professionals interested in acquisitions and collection. Directories for publishers including online publishers, books new or used, web resources on authors and illustrators, conferences and exhibits, references available online, and links to Acqtalk a threaded discussion page. Very up to date information and quite a wide range of coverage.

http://www.bookwire.com/   Book Wire: "The first place to look for Book Information on the World Wide Web." A good index to books in general: book sellers, publishers, and resources. Framed links to: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, and Literary Market Place (their current and past articles can be reviewed from this site)

http://www.bookwire.com/index/other-resources.html   Bookwire Other resources, from book binding to authors and illustrators who visit schools. If it has to do with books it might just be here.

http://www.absolute-sway.com/pfp/html/childrens.htm   Children's Books Links: this site links to reviews, award winners, kids sites, writers and illustrators' resource centers, publishers, and more. Short choice list, dozen plus sites, some a little rusty. Of value, are other book related list links available elsewhere on site.

gopher://lib.nmsu.edu:70/11/.subjects/Education/.childlit   Children's Literature Gopher Site may help you find resources not on the Web. Includes conferences, bibliographies, journal abstracts, links to electronic children's classics, links to other gopher sites, and much more. And since it is a gopher site, it is fast and well organized. Maintained at the University of New Mexico,

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/   Children's Literature Web Guide: The educational link for literature from Calgary, features award winners, bestsellers, discussion boards, links to authors, illustrators, publishers, with resources for parents, teachers, storytellers. David Brown's award winning site is at the top of any list that has the words children and literature.

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. Features include Dragons, Lewis Carroll, reviews, and the reading room, where you find links to online classics, fairy tales, and kids magazines.

http://www.unm.edu/~lhendr/  Linnea Hendrickson's Online Book: Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism. Available there, are the in print resources that were used.

http://www.carolhurst.com   Carol Hurst collection: 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; for storytellers, teachers, librarians, parents and students. Includes links to authors and in site search. Great reviews of books and authors. Free quarterly newsletter.

http://www.rarebooks.org/authors.htm   IBCA (International Book Collectors Association) author link site that connects you to some complete text, reviews, opinions, illustrations; each site privately done so there is a wide variety of quality here. Many excellent interesting links to start from. A Rare Books Ring Member.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html   Internet School Library Media Center: a well indexed, growing number of sites of interest to librarians and teachers.  Everything from book awards to art ed. to voed, links to author and illustrator home pages, online library catalogs, and much more.  Provided by Inez Ramsey, a Professor of Library Science at James Madison University.  This award winning site truly is the Media Center for librarians and teachers.  Meta site.

http://ansernet.rcls.org/libland/llchil.htm  Library Land Resources for Librarians, music, storytelling, resources, authors, reading clubs, parenting, library skills and more.

http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/  Literature Resources for the High School and College Students. Literature by date or author, books on-line, writer's resources, magazines, more.

http://www.trussel.com/f_books.htm    Master Search for set making and bookcovers. Connects to over 25 book search engines. Bookseller Lists and Associations with direct links. Mail-lists, magazine sellers, ISBN a simple explanation and validator, Book Terms, Glossaries, books and book collecting links. Author Pseudonyms 7220 entries (2675 real, 4545 pseudo) Reference Books is an excellent listing of off line text available on almost every book topic.

http://childrensbooks.about.com/parenting/childrensbooks/   About.com covers Children's Books with links to other internet resources, detailed reviews, and this excellent resource includes regularly updated features. Some of the links available: kids interactive, authors, awards, education, online books, picture books, publishers.

http://home.about.com/index.htm About.com home site to try out the many other feature areas of the site, including Book Collecting, family, parenting, kids.

http://www.winsor.edu/library/libguide.htm The Public Service Librarian's Professional Guide to Internet Resources provided by The Winsor School Library, Boston MA. As the name implies there is a lot here but a bit difficult to resource quickly, definitely worth the look though.

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html   Repositories of Primary Sources 'lists over 2700 websites that describe holdings of rare books, manuscripts, archives, historical photos, and other primary sources for research scholars.' Some rusty links here but defiantly a wealth of information searchable by location from Alabama to Zambia. Of special note: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Special Collections linking list found under the Additional General Links.

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