This is a list of many popular websites for literature for children and young adults.
ALAN Review
Journal of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents from 1994.
American Library Association - The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990/1999
(as found in Education Library) See "Challenged Books" Tab Above
Ask the Author
Links from the Internet Public Library to author sites and biographical information.
Award Winning Books in the Education Library
See "Award Winning Books" Tab Above
British Columbia Library Association. Young Adult and Children's Services
Fosters the development and enhancement of library services to youth and to support youth services personnel.
British Columbia Teacher-Librarians' Association
Information about publications; bibliographies.
Canadian Children's Illustrated Books in English
Canadian Children's Illustrated Books (CCIB) Database
Canadian Children's Book Centre
Online version of Our Choice Guides to Canada's Best Children's Books and Videos. Selections by picture books, fiction and nonfiction.
Canadian Children's Literature
Journal of criticism/reviews of Canadian books and media for children and young adults.
Canadian Children's Literature Database (PIKA)
Canadian Children's Literature service.
Canadian Literature for Social Justice
An annotated bibliography of resources from a Canada-wide SSHRC-funded study on Canadian literature to promote social justice in the classroom.
CM: Canadian Review of Materials
Review of Canadian picture books, fiction and videos from 1994-
Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers
Provides Canadian author information.
Canlit for Kids
Outstanding recent Canadian children's books, K-7.
Canlit for LittleCanadians
Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Web Site
Reviews, teaching ideas and activities for kids books.
Censorship links, See the "Censorship / Freedom to Read" Tab Above.
Children’s Book a Day Almanac
Discover the stories behind the children's book classics and the new books on their way to becoming classics..
Children’s Book Council of Australia
Celebrating Australian children’s literature and its creators.
Children's Literature Association
Encourages serious scholarship and research in children's literature.
Children's Literature Research Unit (South Africa)
Promotes children's literature and reading through study, research, community programmes and other promotion activities.
Children's Literature Web Guide
Very useful connections to author, award winners and children's literature resources.
Children's Picture Book Database
Indexed abstracts for over 4,000 picture books for children.
Classic Books: Read.gov (Library of Congress)
Bygone eras, time-honored tales and historical narratives.
Cooperative Children's Book Center
Web bibliographies of multicultural materials.
CWILL BC
Children's Writers and Illustrators of British Columbia.
Cynthia Leitch Smith Children's Literature Resources
Danish Children's Books
A website introducing the magical world of Danish children's books in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Danish.
Database of Award-winning Children's Literature
Search award books by theme and reader age.
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
First full-scale museum in the United States devoted to national and international picture book art.
Fairrosa Cyber Library
Excellent source for author/illustrator information.
How Novel! Canadian Young Adult Literature | Saskatoon Public Library
A source for information on books by Canadian writers for young adults and on the writers themselves. Search by author and title, genre, subject heading, and/or series. This site includes cover art, annotations, reviews and publisher information for about 500 young adult novels as well as some author photographs and biographies.
International Board on Books for Young People - IBBY
Lists the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 1956-present.
International Children's Digital Library
Read 3,887 books in 53 different languages.
Lit2Go
Audiobooks for young adult readers.
Just One More Book Podcast
A podcast about the children's books we love and why we love them. Includes interviews with authors such as Barbara Reid, Dan Bar-El and Giles Tibo.
The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Books
Journal from the Toronto Centre for the Study of Children's Literature University of Toronto from 1997.
National Centre for Research in Children's Literature
National Centre for Children’s Illustrated Literature
Book lists online--Read Up On it.
National Library of Canada - Canadian Children's Literature Service
Book lists online--Read Up On it.
Notes from the Windowsill
Reviews of children's books edited by W. Betts.
PIKA: Canadian Children's Literature service.
Canadian Children's Literature service.
Red Cedar Book Award
Kids choices of their favourite reads.
The Scoop: Children's Book news
Reviews of children's books.
SlimeKids
SlimeKids is a website built for students that provides easy access to excellent literacy-related resources, contains a large collection of book trailers and has reading-based games with bona fide educational value.
Stellar Award
B.C.'s teen readers' choice award.
Stepped Reading Lists from Burnaby Public Library
Lists from emergent readers to intermediate fiction.
Story Books Canada
Designed specifically for educators and makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available in English and French, as well as the major immigrant and refugee languages of Canada (with text and audio in Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, and Tagalog).
Children's Literature Roundtable
Schedule of roundtable events, newsletter and information book award winners.
WikiJunior
The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12.
WOW Stories: Connections from the Classroom
Yahoo Children's Literature Search Page and Directory