Subject Guide: Children's Literature: Digital and Historical Collections of Children's Lit Resources

The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 115,000 volumes published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day. The Library also has small holdings in manuscript collections, original artwork, and assorted ephemera such as board games, puzzles, and toys. The Baldwin Library is known for comparative editions of books, with special emphasis on Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim’s Progress, Aesop’s Fables, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Library also has the largest collection of Early American Juvenile Imprints of any academic institution in the United States.

Large database of children's literature. Users can search by keyword, title, and author. Users may also find books by curricular area, genre, and by reader types.

Find great books for preschool, elementary, and middle school children and teens and ideas of ways to teach with them in the classroom across the curriculum.

An educational exhibit that takes you through the various media used by some of the country's most talented artists. From collage to watercolor to scratchboard, dive in to learn more!

The goal of this organization is to bring together children's literature and its advocates. Includes lists of notable language arts and non-fiction books. Affiliated with the National Council of Teachers of English.

Official page for the Children's Literature Association. The Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) is a non-profit association of scholars, critics, professors, students, librarians, teachers and institutions dedicated to the academic study of literature for children.

The Children's Literature Research Collections (CLRC), an internationally recognized resource in the field of children’s literature, contains six core collections and several smaller collections. They are the Kerlan Collection of Children's Literature, the Hess Collection of Dime Novels, Story Papers, and Series Books, the Paul Bunyan Collection, the Laura Jane Musser Collection of Oziana materials, The Borger Comic Book Collection, and the Illustrated Treasure Island Collection.

The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of web resources related to books for children and young adults. The site is maintained by David K. Brown, Director of the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources.

The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection is one of North America's leading research centers in the field of children's literature. Although the Collection has many strengths, the main focus is on American and British children's literature, historical and contemporary.

Created by the British Library, this website is devoted to historic children's literature. Explore centuries of stories, poems and illustrations with Discovering Children's Books. For children, teachers and book-lovers of all ages.

The Rosetta Project's collections currently contain about 2,000 antique children's books which were published in the 19th and early 20th century. Some titles are translated into various world languages.

Provides free teacher resources including detailed literature guides and book summaries.

SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations. Also discover over 1,600 folktales & fairy tales from around the world in more than 40 full-text eBooks.