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Welcome to the Children's Literature Subject Guide.

The Education Library has a large collection of literature to support teacher education programmes and the Children's Literature courses.

Resources include:

• picture books, fiction, drama and poetry for children and young adults
• myths, legends and folklore from New Zealand and around the world 
• nursery rhymes, alphabet and counting books
• audio visual materials (videos, CDs, cassettes, kits, posters)
• secondary resources about childrens literature and library science
• encyclopedias of authors and illustrators in childrens literature, and folktales and myths

Maurice Gee's classic novel coming to the big screen soon:

http://www.flicks.co.nz/movie/under-the-mountain/

The Oxford companion to children's literature / Humphrey Carpenter. 1984. 

International companion encyclopedia of children's literature / Peter Hunt. 2004.

A critical handbook of children's literature / Rebecca J. Lukens. 1999. 

Who's who in children's books : a treasury of the familiar characters of childhood / Margery Fisher. 1975.

'Children's Literature' in vol. 1 of The Greenwood guide to American popular culture / ed. by M. Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall. 2002.

The Oxford companion to Australian children's literature / Stella Lees and Pam Macintyre. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Oxford Reference Online Offers simultaneous searching of a number of literature reference books.

Talespinner

Twentieth-Century Children's Writers /ed. D. L. Kirkpatrick. London : Macmillan, 1978. Biographical information, list of books published and a short critical article on each author.

The ALAN review /National Council of Teachers of English.  Assembly on Literature for Adolescents

Poetics of Children's Literature / Zohar Shavit

Storylines Supporting Children's Books and Literature in New Zealand

Create Readers A blog about Children's and YA literature written by National Library staff.

The Margaret Mahy Collection of New Zealand Children's books, Christchurch City Libraries

Story-go-Round  Lorraine Orman's guide to children's books in New Zealand. Includes advice for aspiring writers and the top 100 NZ Children's books of the 20th century.

HarperCollins Children's Publisher's website with teaching and reading guides for books.

The International Children's Digital Library.  Digital copies of books from around the world, New Zealand books included.

Eclipse Exemplary Children's Literature Interface Project for Scholarly Education 

The Children's Literature Web Guide Links to authors and stories on the web, childrens book awards and best sellers, teaching resources and organisations.

The current Children's Laureate is Anthony Browne.  The previous one was Michael Rosen.

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts compiled by D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh. Organised by subject and type. Includes fairy tales.

Kidlitosphere Central  A portal for blogs and resources associated with children's literature.

Bibliography of Children's Literature Criticism 
To accompany Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer's Pleasures of Children's Literature. Extensive list of books and journal article references arranged under such headings as: How to read childrens literature, Theories of reader response, Childrens as readers, Children as implied readers.

BUBL directory of Internet resources: Children's Literature links to a wide range of internet resources, including bibliographies, reviews and sites focusing on series such as Oz, Narnia and Harry Potter.

Australian Authors and Illustrators for Young People

Boy's reading choices Includes book suggestions and articles.

HarperCollins Children's Publisher's website with teaching and reading guides for books.

Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project
Antique childrens books to view page by page or download the book as zipped file. Click on the 'Library' link to view titles. Excellent quality reproductions of the illustrations.

Classic Reader: childrens titles
'Where you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature '-children's section includes authors such as Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Darlington, Hugh Lofting.

Lewis Carroll section of the Victorian Web
A rich site offering short critical articles on a variety of themes and aspects of Lewis Carroll's work. The articles are written by independent researchers, students and faculty members of Brown University. Includes social history information and the complete Alice illustrations.

Gaslight's G.A. Henty page
Full text of The Young Colonists: a story of the Zulu and Boer Wars, plus a bibliography of Henty's books.

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