The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), is a professional network for librarians, children's literature experts, publishers, and educators. This site includes awards, book lists, programming ideas, and links.

The Children's Book Council is the national nonprofit trade association for children's trade book publishers. The council publishes book lists including Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, and Children's Choices.

9/16/2019
Children's Literature Network Closes Its Doors and Website: However, several of their initiatives — including a newsletter and magazine — will be carried on by their parent organization, Winding Oak. (bookology magazine)

Network of Upper Midwesterners with a proffesional interest in children's literature.

Searchable database to assist in designing literature-based thematic units.

The CCBC at UW-Madison is a library devoted to research and examination of children's and young adult literature. Articles, book reviews, and information about intellectual freedom can be found here.

Dozens of annotated book lists organized by theme from Reading Rockets.

California Dept. of Education.

Click "Search for Books" to search a database that provides Lexile (reading level and text complexity) information about books.

Storytime themes with recommended books, flannel board activities, rhymes and fingerplays.

Download free PDFs of children's books.

Features digital children's books in English and many other languages.

Free E-Books for children ages 3-11

Discover expert advice, educational resources, and free eBooks to support your student's learning here.
Please note you will need to create a free account to access the online e-books, which are divided by age for parental/guardian ease of use.

Online, interactive stories designed to teach children how to read with phonics.

An online streaming video program featuring actors and actresses reading popular children's books. Also includes activities.

Online stories and activities from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.

A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies.

Florida State University Libraries. This collection of full-text scanned images of over 30 children's books includes ABC books, holiday stories, and other examples of 19th century picture books.

Children's books published between 1871 and 1917 from the Special Collections of the Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa.

Scanned children's books which were published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950. Books are from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, housed at the University of Florida.

Iillustrated children's books from the University of California Collections, 1550-1990.

Translated from the German by Lucy Crane. Done into pictures by Walter Crane. New York: Hurst and Company, n.d. From the 1920 edition: "First edition printed 1882. Reprinted 1892, 1899, 1906, 1909, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1920."

Storytelling in the classroom, lesson plans, and a storytelling library.