Literature
This section groups together resources to help in the selection of children's books.
Canadian Materials
www.umanitoba.ca/cm
Contains book and media reviews, news, and author profiles of interest to teachers, librarians, parents and kids.
(in English only)
Livres jeunesse - Club Culture
http://club-culture.com/lecture/indjeu.htm
Offers a selection of children's books.
(in French only)
Doucette Index
www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex
Provides access to books and websites that contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books.
(in English only)
International Children's Digital Library
www.icdlbooks.org
The International Children's Digital Library is a place where children all over the world can find books from many different countries.
(in English only)
Just For Kids Who Love Books
www.alanbrown.com
This site contains book reviews written by children, profiles of authors, and children's literature links.
(in English only)
Livres ouverts
http://livresouverts.qc.ca
Database of children's books. The database can be searched using various criteria: bibliographic information, way of exploring as educational material, level of difficulty or theme.
(in French only)
LivresPlus
www.livresplus.com
Devoted entirely to books written or translated into French, covering a wide range of interests. Information, articles, interviews, reviews, etc.
(in French only)
Des livres qui cliquent!
http://ecoles.uneq.qc.ca/bienvenue.html
This site offers teaching scenarios and various tools that introduce Quebec children's authors and their works.
(in French only)
100 Best Canadian Books (Selected by the Children's Librarians of the Toronto Public Library)
www.tpl.toronto.on.ca/KidsSpace/grownups/100bestbooks.htm
The Toronto Public Library (TPL) has selected a wide-ranging list of "100 Best Canadian Books for Today's Children and Teens."
(in English only)
Quoi lire? Rˆ©pertoire d'oeuvres de littˆ©rature jeunesse
www2.qesnrecit.qc.ca/quoi_lire/default.htm
A database of children's literature that allows access to descriptive files, some of which include resumes and reviews.
(in French only)
Services Documentaires Multimˆ©dia (SDM)
www.sdm.qc.ca/centre/bibliographies/bibliographies.html
Index of children's literature resources that includes a bibliographic section with a selection of titles on a variety of subjects of interest to children.
(in French only)
Vivrˆ©lire
www3.sympatico.ca/rboisvert
Suggested Canadian and international books for teens
(in French only)
- Eighteen Highly Recommended Books for Girls
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- A Sampler from the Ballantine book, Great Books for Girls by Kathleen Odean.
- Favorite Books and Must-Reads (March 1995)
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- A lengthy list compiled by contributors to Rec.arts.books.childrens. If you have read everything on this list, you can consider yourself truly kid-lit-erate. And you will be too old to be considered a child.
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- Picture Books for Young Adults
- Compiled by Don Yarman from suggestions by CHILDLIT subscribers. Also check Picture Books for the Secondary Classroom by Barbara Brewer, for a list of books related to Social Studies topics.
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- Popular Canadian Fiction for 12-13 Year-Olds (February 1995)
- Compiled by Blanchet Jacynthe.
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- Sure-fire Can't Miss Books for Junior High Students (September 1994)
- Compiled from suggestions by teachers and librarians.
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- Young Adult Reading
- Murray Whitehead, a language arts teacher in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada provides book reviews and lists of recommended YA books at this Web site.
