The American Wholesale Booksellers Association (AWBA) is a national trade organization that represents a diverse group of book wholesalers. Our members include wholesalers of all sizes, with all types of inventory and specializations, from all areas of the nation.
The mission of the American Association of School Librarians is to advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the school library media field.
The American Booksellers Association is a not-for-profit organization devoted to meeting the needs of its core members of independently owned bookstores with retail storefront locations through advocacy, education, research, and information dissemination.
The Arne Nixon Center is one of North America's leading research centers for the study of children's and young adult literature. The growing collection of 38,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, illustrations, and related materials has a multicultural emphasis, dating from 1865 to current publications.
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is a network of more than 4,000 children's and youth librarians, children's literature experts, publishers, education and library school faculty members, and other adults committed to improving and ensuring the future of the nation through exemplary library service to children, their families, and others who work with children.
The Association of American Publishers (AAP), representing publishers of all sizes and types located throughout the United States, is the principal trade association of the book publishing industry.
The ABC is a national membership association that offers a support network for professional independent children's booksellers who share the goal of encouraging quality and service within the children's book industry.
The Children's Literature Association seeks:
To encourage serious scholarship and research in children's literature. To enhance the professional stature of the graduate and undergraduate teaching of children's literature. To encourage high standards of criticism in children's literature throughfellowships and scholarships to assist members in researchan annual award for the most significant critical article written about children's literature
an annual award for the most significant book of criticism, history or scholarship in the field of children's literature
the Phoenix Award, for the most outstanding book for children published twenty years earlier which did not receive a major award at the time of publication
an annual conference devoted to the discussion and exploration of children's literature
an annual award for the best undergraduate paper written about some aspect of children's literature
In 1987 the Audio Publishers Association (APA), a not-for-profit trade association, was created to:
Advocate high production value and advise on industry-specific technical standards; Serve as a networking, educational and information forum for its members; Deliver programs and services that serve the common business interests for its members; and Promote policies and activities that accelerate audiobook industry growth.
APA and its members work to bring all audio publishers together to create increased public awareness for the audiobook industry through joint publicity efforts, national consumer surveys, trade show exhibits, an association newsletter, and the annual APA conference - APAC.
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) is the not for profit peak body for Australian booksellers. We represent the shared aims of a diverse membership of chain, franchise, independent, campus and second hand bookshops. Our members proudly display the ABA logo on their shopfronts and websites.
As a service organisation, the ABA executive and staff embrace the principles of member focus, quality projects and relevance to member and community needs.
The Australian Centre for Youth Literature promotes reading. It offers exciting and affordable book events for young people and professionals. Teenagers and children meet great writers and talented young actors - bringing reading to life. Professional learning programs and the biennial Reading Matters conference keep adults in touch with crucial issues and ideas in youth literature.
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) is the peak industry body for Australian book, journal and electronic publishers. Established in 1948, the association is an advocate for all Australian publishers: large or small; commercial or non-profit; academic or popular; locally or overseas owned.
Over the years the APA has grown into an organisation of considerable influence. From modest beginnings and a membership of twenty, the Association now has over 160 members and represents 91% of the industry, based on turnover.
The Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) is a national authority, a peak forum in the field of teacher librarianship and school library resource services.
Its aim is to maximise opportunities for students to obtain independent lifelong learning and decision making skills through ASLA's commitment to :
High professional standards Awareness of advances and changes in technology and the competence and ability to teach and use it Effective, cooperative use of school resource services by the whole school community Qualified teacher librarians with an image of excellence Optimum use of the dual skills of teaching and librarianship
The Australian Society of Authors is the professional association for Australia's literary creators.
The ASA was formed in 1963 to promote and protect the rights of Australia's writers and illustrators, and now has almost 3000 members across Australia.
The Blogna Children's Book Fair is the world's leading event for children's publishing copyright professionals.
For 45 years, Bologna hosts in the spring the premier meeting among the world's producers of children's content: book publishers, literary agents, TV/film companies, and licensing developers. A forum thoroughly addressing every aspect of this field.
Booktrust is an independent national charity that encourages people of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy reading.
This web site provides free resources and recommendations for teachers, librarians and parents about books for young people of all ages.
Welcome to the Canadian Children's Book Centre's home on the web!
A national not-for-profit organization and registered charity, the Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) was founded in 1976 to promote, support and encourage the reading, writing and illustrating of Canadian books for children and teens.
With book collections and extensive resources in five cities across Canada, the CCBC is a treasure-trove for anyone interested in Canadian books for young readers. Through our publications and programs (such as the quarterly magazine, Canadian Children's Book News and the annual TD Canadian Children's Book Week), the CCBC actively promotes Canadian books and brings their readers and creators together.
The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) is a unique and vital gathering place for books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children's and young adult literature. The CCBC is a noncirculating examination, study, and research library for Wisconsin school and public librarians, teachers, early childhood care providers, university students, and others interested in children's and young adult literature. The CCBC is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) School of Education (SoE), and receives additional support from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI).
Good literature promotes literacy. The Center for Children's Books is a crossroads for critical inquiry, professional training, and educational outreach related to literature for youth from birth through adolescence. In partnership with The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books—an authoritative analytic review journal—the Center aims to inspire and inform adults who connect young people with resources in person, in print, and online. An integral part of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, the Center sponsors activities and hosts interdisciplinary research projects involving both theory and practice. In its dual role as research collection and educational community, the Center has national impact on the future of reading and readers.
The Children's Book Council, Inc. is the nonprofit trade association of publishers and packagers of trade books and related materials for children and young adults
The goals of the Children's Book Council are:
• to make the reading and enjoyment of children's books an essential part of America's educational and social goals;
• to enhance public perception of the importance of reading by disseminating information about books and related materials for young people and information about children's book publishing; and
• to create materials to support literacy and reading encouragement programs and to encourage the annual observance of National Children's Book Week and Young People's Poetry Week.
The Children's Book Council of Australia aims to foster children's enjoyment of books through:
Managing the Children's Book of the Year Awards.Providing information on and encouragement to authors and illustrators.
Organising exhibitions and activities during Children's Book Week.
Supporting children's library services.
Promoting high standards in book reviewing.
Founded in 1945, the Children's Book Guild of Washington, D.C. is a professional organization that serves the community by promoting high standards in children's literature and encouraging the love of good books.
Children's Literature for Children is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, educational organization dedicated to bringing children and books together. CLC began in 1972 at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, as the first structured academic course in children's literature. Now CLC's programs are in hospitals and schools throughout the United States and in countries all over the world.
Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania Children's Department came into existence in 1963. In 1994 was reorganized into the Children's Literature Centre (CLC).
CLC accumulates, processes, and stores children's literature, both original and in translation, as well as works on history, theory and literary criticism, informative and reference publications from various countries related to children's literature. The aim of CLC is to acquire, as full as possible, earlier Lithuanian and translated children's books and books published by Lithuanian exiles. CLC collection numbers approximately 102.000 volumes.
The Children's Literature Connection is an organization dedicated to the advancement of children's literature. Our goals include encouraging networking and collaboration among writers, illustrators, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, editors, parents, and others, and strengthening the connection between the people who create children's books and the people who use them.
Recent changes in education policy are discouraging teachers from using authentic children's literature in school. Part of our mission is to provide a counterpoint to those arguments. Our children won't be literate if they don't read literature.
Eastern Michigan University has been and continues to be a pioneer in Children's Literature Studies. The EMU library houses one of the largest collections of children's literature in the nation. In a speech dedicating the "Helbig Collection of Literature for Children and Young People" to the Friends of EMU's Halle Library, Alethea Helbig said those who founded Children's Literature Studies at EMU in the late 1960s—Marjorie Miller, Helen Hill, Agnes Perkins, G.B. Cross, and herself—were instrumental in defining Children's Literature as a field of study: "Trained in literature studies, we looked at children's books somewhat differently from what had long been the case. We saw them as works of imaginative literature worthy of critical examination in their own right, rather than as handmaidens for teaching reading or other subject matter, although those are legitimate uses. And we began to discover that others elsewhere in academe were doing the same."
Welcome to the online home of the Educational Paperback Association, an association of wholesalers and publishers who supply paperback books, prebound books and other materials to schools and libraries.
The Fremantle Children's Literature Centre aims to make literature more accessible in a rich, happy, stimulating environment and provide a focus for all those interested in children's literature, bringing together students, teachers, parents, authors, illustrators and specialists in the field.
Exhibitions of original manuscripts, preliminary drawings and original artwork show the collaborative process involved in creating children's and young adult picture books. Interactive workshops are run for students from pre primary to tertiary level and professional development seminars for teachers, librarians, writers and illustrators. There is a comprehensive authors and illustrators in residence programme for approximately 16 weeks annually.
The Centre has an ever-increasing rural, interstate and international residence programme wherein Centre staff and, whenever possible, authors and illustrators, undertake literature programmes in places as diverse as Bangkok, Christmas Island, Somerset, Qld, Adelaide, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Dalwallinu and remote Aboriginal communities.
Hollins offers summer M.A. and M.F.A. programs exclusively in the study and writing of children's literature. One of the few in the country to offer humanities graduate degrees in children's literature, we are, we believe, the only one to offer them in the study and writing of children's literature.
The study of children's literature as a scholarly experience was initiated at Hollins in 1973 by the major American poet and children's poet William Jay Smith. Possibly the most widely known and read alumna of the college is Margaret Wise Brown, a 1932 graduate, among whose many books for children are the classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Among the many other Hollins students who have written for children
are Katharine Boling, Joan Carris, John Hay, Betty Hicks, Hillary Homzie, Robin D. Jones, A. LaFaye, Katie Letcher Lyle, Marilyn MacGregor, William Miller, Patricia Mills, Lee Robinson, Karen Adams Sulkin, Eve Tal, Michelle Taylor, Sylvia Wilkinson, and Willie Wilson.
Independent Online Booksellers Association was founded in 1999 by a group of concerned online booksellers. When the internet began to take on a life of its own around this time, and several pioneer used/out-of-print/antiquarian book search services opened their electronic doors for business, the booksellers who were really their partners in this new venture were thrilled with the results, as were our customers. Even at this early date, however, it became obvious that we needed to reconcile the wonderful efficiency and relative anonymity of online selling with the importance of maintaining traditional values. Forming a trade association gave us an opportunity to address the key issues of establishing trust between bookseller and book buyer, helping to train future generations of new booksellers, advocating for our members, and acting as a clearinghouse for information.
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together.
IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession.
Founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1927 at an international conference, we celebrated our 75th birthday at our conference in Glasgow, Scotland in 2002. We now have 1700 Members in 150 countries around the world. IFLA was registered in the Netherlands in 1971. The Royal Library, the national library of the Netherlands, in The Hague, generously provides the facilities for our headquarters.
The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community - children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), formerly the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), is the trade and standards association for the digital publishing industry. Our members consist of academic, trade and professional publishers, hardware and software companies, digital content retailers, libraries, educational institutions, accessibility advocates and related organizations whose common goals are to advance the competitiveness and exposure of digital publishing.
The International Publishers Association (IPA) is the global non-governmental organisation representing all aspects of book and journal publishing worldwide. Established in 1896, IPA's mission is to promote and protect publishing and to raise awareness for publishing as a force for cultural and political advancement worldwide. IPA is an industry association with a human rights mandate.
International Readding Association was founded in 1956 as a professional organization for those involved in teaching reading to learners of all ages. Our members are dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all by
Improving the quality of reading instructionDisseminating research and information about reading
Encouraging the lifetime reading habit
The National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (NCCIL) is a non-profit organization incorporated in February of 1997 in the state of Texas. We are located at the corner of North First & Cedar streets in a beautifully renovated circa 1920 building. Come see us or call 325-673-4586.
The NCCIL is a unique example of the power of a community committed to children and literacy. A 1995 feasibility study by arts researcher Nancy Pressley indicated a need for exhibitors of art from children's literature. In 1996, the NCCIL was established as a collaborative effort of the Junior League of Abilene, the Museums of Abilene, and a community, state and nationally based steering committee.
The NCCIL provides recognition of the artistic achievements of illustrators and gallery exhibitions of their works. Additionally, the NCCIL designs educational programming that relates to illustrations in children's literature in order to stimulate creativity, promote literacy and to increase appreciation for art.
http://www.famlit.org/site/c.gtJWJdMQIsE/b.1204561/k.BD7C/Home.htmFamily literacy succeeds because it builds on the motivation parents have for their own children's success.
Literacy is the change agent that inspires families and communities to raise the achievement bar. Family is the conduit for longlasting, meaningful change. Working together with families, communities and dedicated partners, the National Center for Family Literacy services bring about change to ensure that parents and children achieve their goals for success.
NCFL pioneered the approach that puts family at the forefront of educational reform. Since its inception in 1989, NCFL has provided the leadership to solve our national literacy problem.
Through groundbreaking initiatives, NCFL fuels life improvement for the nation's most disadvantaged children and parents. More than 1 million families throughout the country have made positive educational and economic gains as a result of NCFL's work, which includes training more than 150,000 teachers and thousands of volunteers.
The National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (NCRCL) facilitates and supports research exchange in the field of children's literature. The NCRCL is based at Roehampton University, which houses several collections which are held in the Children's Literature Collection and in the Froebel Archive for Childhood Studies.
This website provides information about (primarily UK) resources, activities, and individuals, and links to useful World Wide Web sites. In order to develop our pages we depend on information from users as well as our own databases and sources of information, so if you have information which you think should appear under any of these headings, please contact the NCRCL.
The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. Since 1911, NCTE has provided a forum for the profession, an array of opportunities for teachers to continue their professional growth throughout their careers, and a framework for cooperation to deal with issues that affect the teaching of English.
Mission Statement
Here is NCTE's mission statement as it appears in the NCTE Strategic Plan (8/90):
"The Council promotes the development of literacy, the use of language to construct personal and public worlds and to achieve full participation in society, through the learning and teaching of English and the related arts and sciences of language."
What is National D.E.A.R. Day?
D.E.A.R. stands for Drop Everything and Read. National D.E.A.R. Day is a special reading celebration to remind and encourage families to make reading together on a daily basis a family priority.
Who Is Leading the National D.E.A.R. Day Celebration? The National Education Association (NEA); Parent Teacher Association (PTA); HarperCollins Children's Books; the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association; Reading Rockets; First Book; the Newspaper Association of America Foundation (NAAF) and Ramona Quimby.
The National Literacy Trust, founded in 1993, is an independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation. The importance of literacy has long been recognised: it underpins all educational achievement and is central to economic advance; it helps develop human potential and raises self-esteem. Our vision is of a society where literacy is a valued part of everybody's life and all have the reading, writing and communication skills required to support their goals. We are the only organisation concerned with raising literacy standards for all age groups throughout the UK.
Oyate is a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that all people will know our stories belong to us. For Native children, it is as important as it has ever been for them to know who they are and what they come from. It is a matter of survival. For all children, it is time to learn the truth of history. Only in this way will they come to have the understanding and respect for each other that now, more than ever, will be necessary for life to continue.
Our work includes evaluation of texts, resource materials and fiction by and about Native peoples; conducting of teacher workshops, in which participants learn to evaluate children's material for anti-Indian biases; administration of a small resource center and library; and distribution of children's, young adult, and teacher books and materials, with an emphasis on writing and illustration by Native people.
This library offers the reader a series of identification sheets about books, authors, illustrators and film adaptations of children's and young people's literature.
What makes this site special are your comments, the possibility to get links to some author's work and to some excerps fo the original writing.
For all this, any suggestion that you may have is welcomed.
When creating this site, we have chosen to give a large selection rather than lots of information about one book. Our selection criteria are based on the possibility of linking information, linking text and image and other interesting references.
Every sheet is formed of objective information, links to other sheets of the same author, illustrator or work. This allows the reader to run through different aspects and sources of every xork and to discover multiple interactions.
This library should be useful to think about the interaction, exchange and influences between books for children and young people, graphic arts, scenic arts, cinema, cartoon films and multimedia. It is for this reason that we have included films multimedia adaptations, if they happen to be relevant.
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, formed in 1971 by a group of Los Angeles based writers for children, is the only international organization to offer a variety of services to people who write, illustrate, or share a vital interest in children's literature. The SCBWI acts as a network for the exchange of knowledge between writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, librarians, educators, booksellers and others involved with literature for young people. There are currently more than 19,000 members worldwide, in over 70 regions, making it the largest children's writing organization in the world.
School-libraries.net is a directory of links to web pages created by and for school librarians.
Storytelling, the language art that pre-dates written history, is now served by two organizations, both headquartered in Jonesborough, Tennessee where the American storytelling revival was jump-started by the first National Storytelling Festival in 1973.
The success of that first festival led to the founding of the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling (NAPPS), which changed its name to the National Storytelling Association (NSA) in 1994.
In 1998, NSA, in an effort to better serve the needs of the diverse storytelling community, divided into two separate organizations, National Storytelling Network (NSN) and the International Storytelling Center (ISC).
Both organizations are dedicated to advancing the art of storytelling - as a performing art, teaching aid, and cultural transformation process. Both SFI and NSN jointly own the annual National Storytelling Festival, and ISC produces the event.
NSN is a member driven organization, with a Board of Directors elected by members from seven regions across America. It offers direct services, publications and educational opportunities to several thousand individuals, local storytelling guilds and associations. These services are designed to improve the quality of storytelling at all levels - in entertainment venues, in classrooms, organizations, medical fields and wherever storytelling can make a contribution to quality of life.
The Authors Guild has been the nation's leading advocate for writers' interests in effective copyright protection, fair contracts and free expression since it was founded as the Authors League of America in 1912. It provides legal assistance and a broad range of web services to its members.
The Center for Children's Literature and Culture is an interdisciplinary center based in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida. Members of the Center include faculty and researchers from the University community; teachers, librarians, media specialists, and others working directly with children; and artists and writers creating works for children in print and other media.
Our purpose is to encourage the exploration of this vital area of our cultural life through scholarly and critical investigations; through meetings, symposia, and seminars; and through the development of innovative ways to make the research and concerns of our members and outside scholars available to the general public.
One of the key resources in our endeavors is the Baldwin Collection of Historical Children's Literature, consisting of nearly 100,000 volumes, housed in the University of Florida's Special Collections. The Baldwin Library is one of the leading historical collections of children's literature in the country -- indeed, in the world. The Center is committed to working in close cooperation with the Baldwin Library to help raise public awareness of the contents of this remarkable collection.
Founded in 1967, The Mythopoeic Society is a non-profit international literary and educational organization for the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantastic and mythic literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams.
The Soho Center is a Non-Profit National Resource for Quality Child Care & Education - Children's literacy, school success, and quality child care are important for America's future. It makes good sense to do everything we can to enhance them.
The foundation Svenska barnboksinstitutet, SBI (The Swedish Institute for Children's Books), is a special library open to the public and an information centre for children's and young people's literature. The aim is to promote this kind of literature in Sweden as well as Swedish children's and young people's literature abroad. The charter is dated December 7, 1965 and operations commenced in 1967. From July, 1, 1989, the Institute has had the Royal Library as a supervisory authority. The board is made up of representatives from all the founders and the chairman is appointed by the Government.
The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) serves as the U.S. national section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), which was founded to promote international understanding and good will through books for children and teenagers. USBBY's purpose is to:
Explore and promote reading materials of literary merit that have been created around the world for young peopleCooperate with IBBY and with organizations whose objective are similar to those of IBBY
Facilitate the exchange of information about books of international interest for young people
Promote the reading of these books by young people in the U.S.
The mission of the Young Adult Library Services Association is to advocate, promote and strengthen service to young adults as part of the continuum of total library service, and to support those who provide service to this population.
"The Parent-Child Home Program, a research-proven home visiting model, prepares young children for school success by increasing language and literacy skills, enhancing social-emotional development, and strengthening the parent-child relationship."
"Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national non-profit organization that promotes early literacy by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud in pediatric exam rooms across the nation."
Mathematica Policy Research Inc. is a contractor that conducts a good deal of research on behalf of the Federal government on the efficacy of various health and educational programs. As such, they have a lot of research on many related childhood programs funded by the government.
The Florida Center for Reading Research was established by Governor Jeb Bush in January, 2002. It is jointly administered at Florida State University by the Learning Systems Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Florida Center for Reading Research Mission:
1. To conduct basic research on reading, reading growth, reading assessment, and reading instruction that will contribute to the scientific knowledge of reading and benefit students in Florida and throughout the nation.
2. To disseminate information about research-based practices related to literacy instruction and assessment for children in pre-school through 12th grade.
3. To conduct applied research that will have an immediate impact on policy and practices related to literacy instruction in Florida.
4. To provide technical assistance to Florida's schools and to the State Department of Education for the improvement of literacy outcomes in students from pre-K through 12th grade.
"Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club of New York is America's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts. Named for Jean Grolier, the Renaissance collector renowned for sharing his library with friends, the Club's objective is to foster "the literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books."
The Club maintains a research library on printing and related book arts, and its programs include public exhibitions as well as a long and distinguished series of publications."
Lots of great research and statistics at theNational Institure for Literacyalong with useful materials.
The National Center for Eduction Statistics is great place to start any project where you are trying to wade through the often contradictory research.
The US Census Bureau can be a fascinating font of information about this incredibly diverse country and it is amazing what nooks and crannies they have statistics on, including books and reading.
The Butler Children’s Literature Center at Dominican University serves as an examination center for children’s and young adult books published annually in the United States, and as an historical collection of the best children’s and young adult literature published nationally and internationally. It also serves as an evidence-based, best practices professional collection in support of the application and integration of children’s and young adult literature in classrooms, libraries, childcare centers, and homes.
An exchange of experience across borders is essential and it opens new opportunities in a globalised media society as ideas for projects and synergies can be put to a worldwide use. As an information and service portal "Reading Worldwide" intends to inspire a transfer of knowledge and provide support to multipliers in the field of reading promotion.
Search Institute is a leading global innovator in discovering what children and adolescents need to become caring, healthy, and responsible adults. Drawing on extensive research, Search Institute brings hopeful solutions to pressing challenges in the lives of young people and their communities.
Reading Trails is the internet's most innovative social network for readers. Browse our network of intersecting trails to discover what to read next. Share your tastes by creating your own trails and writing book reviews.