FTS: Mirrors & Windows: Representation in Children's Literature: Websites

Over 6,000 children's books, mostly from the 19th century and mostly in English, digitized by the University of Florida libraries special collections.

This site is densely packed with ideas, curriculum activities, books reviews, and information about authors. Searchable.

A well-organized and vast guide to online resources, including lists of best books, parent resources, information about authors, publisher's catalogs, etc.

This site brings together books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children's and young adult literature. From the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A useful guide to nearly 6,000 books and 73 awards. Users can search by the reader's age, the story's setting, historical period, ethnicity of characters, and other variables.

An ambitious project to digitize children's books in their original languages and to create innovative technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old.

We Need Diverse Books™ is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.

Award-winning titles "present American Indians in the fullness of their humanity in the present and past contexts."

An award given to books that "authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States."

This award is intended "to honor and recognize individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit."

These awards are "given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values."

This award is "presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth."

"The first and most enduring award for GLBT books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table."

"The Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award was initiated in 2000 to recognize authors, illustrators, and publishers of high quality fictional and biographical children, intermediate, and young adult books that appropriately portray individuals with developmental disabilities." (from the website)

"The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences." (from the website)