Children's Literature: Reviews, Lists and Teachers' Resources Online

Book Reviews

• CM: Canadian Review of Materials: An electronic reviewing journal of Canadian materials for young people. Includes "book reviews, media reviews, web reviews, news, features, and stories of interest to teachers, librarians, parents, and kids."
• The Horn Book Magazine. Reviews of children's books, articles and interviews of authors and illustrators.
• School Library Journal. Comprehensive "review source for books, multimedia and technology for children and teens."
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site. Book reviews and curriculum uses.
  
• teenreads.com. "Part of The Book Report Network, a group of websites founded in 1996 that share thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews"
  

Teachers' Resources and Book Lists

• CCBC: Cooperative Children's Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bibliographies, book lists and links to other sources.
• The Center for Children's Books, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Lists of best books and teacher/librarian resources.
• PaperTigers.Org A website for librarians, teachers, publishers, and all those interested in young readers' books from and about the Pacific Rim and South Asia.
• The Educator's Reference Desk: Children's Literature. Links to lessson plans and related sites.

Databases

• Pika: Canadian Children's Literature Database. Search the National Library of Canada's collection of children's books.
  
• Early Canadiana Online: A project to provide access to Canada's published heritage. Two exhibitions on this Web site are: Exploration: the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company (ages 9 to 13) and Canada in the Making (secondary students).