Websites on Children's Literature and Related Subjects

These are some of the web sites that provide great information about Australian children's authors and illustrators:

Australian Government Culture and Recreation Portal

Books Illustrated

Buzz Words (The Latest Buzz about Children's Books)

Big Picture 

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Downunder Literature

 Inside a Dog : A website for young people about books

PaperTigers
The Children's Book Council of Australia Children's Book Council (USA)
Children's Book Council of Australian (Qld Branch) Misrule: The Home of Australian Children's Books Online
Children's Book Council (Vic Branch) May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust
The Children's Literature Web Guide Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources
Australian Book Illustrators Online The Children's Literature Web Guide
Children's Writing Resource Centre Fremantle Children's Literature Centre
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection Digital Librarian: A Librarians' Choice of the Best of the Web
Dromkeen: The Home of Australian Children's Book Illustration Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature

AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature		 The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids
Seven Stories
Children's and Adolescent Literature Resources The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Kay Vandergrift's Special Interest Page Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page
Women Writers


 CHLDE (Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe)

Education Websites

Useful sites for educators, children and people interested in children's literature.

Children's Picture Book Database Oz-teacher net
The Purple crayon children's editor site SOFweb
Children's and Adolescent Literature Resources Education Department of Western Australia: Fiction Focus
: The Wilderness Society Perry Nodelman
AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature

Electronic journals

Please note these journals may require subscrition.

The ALAN Review Booklist
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Horn Book
The Lion and the Unicorn Publishers Weekly
Preliminary cover for Mr Biffy's Battle by Andrew McLean

Andrew McLean

Preliminary Cover for Mr Biffy's Battle (Penguin)
Unframed ink and watercolour. 24 cms by 28 cms
Source: Books Illustrated http://www.booksillustrated.com.au