Links to web sites by and about authors, illustrators, and literary works represented in Crosscurrents of Children's Literature. Many of these sites contain biographies, portraits, and illustrations from literary works, among other resources.
Many of these links were checked on August 23, 2010. Other outdated links will be corrected soon.
Jacob Abbott page by Deidre Johnson
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel, NEH Edsitement lesson
Aesop's Fables: extensive web site by John R. Long
Louisa May Alcott's house: Orchard House web site, Concord, Massachusetts
Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Aldrich's Tom
Hans Christian Andersen Annotated Web-o-graphy
Hans Christian Andersen Center, University of Southern Denmark
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, an NEH Edsitement lesson
Maya Angelou biography, Black History Month, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources
Mitsumasa Anno page in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Antonia Barber at Walker Books (publisher web site)
John D. Batten illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
L. Frank Baum: article by Linda McGovern "The Man Behind the Curtain: L. Frank Baum and the Wizard of Oz"
L. Frank Baum biography by W. R. Wright
L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz, 1904 novel, The Baldwin Online Children's Project
James Berry page at Penguin (publisher web site)
Thomas Bewick: The Web Site of The Bewick Society
Thomas Bewick at The Edmonton Art Gallery
The Official Quentin Blake Web Site
Francesca Lia Block's web site
Ivan Bilibin illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
The Art of Ivan Bilibin blog essay by Jennie Renton 2005
Eleanor Vere Boyle in The Victorian Web
Eleanor Vere Boyle illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
L. Leslie Brooke illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Margaret Wise Brown web site
Joseph Bruchac Storyteller and Writer
Joseph Bruchac page at Children's Literature Network
Lewis Carroll Society of North America
Lewis Carroll in The Victorian Web
Angela Carter: Featured Author, New York Times links (requires free sign-in)
Angela Carter interview by Anna Katsavos
Angela Carter tribute by Salman Rushdie
Richard Chase: Annotated Bibliography
Beverly Cleary Author Profile by Jim Trelease
Lucille Clifton pages, Modern American Poetry Site
Carlo Collodi National Foundation
Carlo Collodi works in Project Gutenberg
J. A. Comenius Museum, Uhersky Brod, Czech Republic
Floyd Cooper page at Children's Literature web site
Floyd Cooper page at HarperCollins (publisher web site)
Floyd Cooper Illustrator, his web site
The Official Bruce Coville Web Site
Walter Crane page, University of Pittsburgh Library
Walter Crane illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Walter Crane in Illuminated Books web site, includes reproduction of Grimms' Household Tales
George Cruikshank in The Victorian Web
George Cruikshank illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Christopher Paul Curtis's web site
Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 review in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Roald Dahl biography in Roald Dahl Fans.com
The Official Roald Dahl web site
Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont in "Beauty and the Beast" by Terri Windling, The Endicott Studio
The Dickens Project, University of California
Dickens's Hard Times in The Victorian Web
Franklin W. Dixon and Hardy Boys books at BBC.co.uk
Gustave Doré illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Maria Edgeworth: The Edgeworth Website
Maria Edgeworth page at Penguin (publisher web site)
Elizabeth Enright page at Macmillan (publisher web site)
Louise Erdrich page at HarperCollins (publisher web site)
Louise Erdrich page, Women's History, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources
Louise Erdrich: The Birchbark House page in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Lousie Erdrich page and video interview, Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS.org
Louise Erdrich page at Native American Authors, Drexel University
Louise Erdrich's "teaching bookstore" Birchbark Books, Minneapolis
Profile of Tom Feelings by National Conference of Artists of New York
Louise Fitzhugh: Purple Socks, a Louise Fitzhugh Tribute Site
Charles Folkard illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Fiona French: illustration from Snow White in New York in Kay Vandergrift's Snow White site
Harry French and Dickens's Hard Times in Victorian Web
Wanda Gág page in Women Children's Book Illustrators
The Wanda Gág House, New Ulm, Minnesota
Wanda Gág Papers, University of Minnesota Libraries
Priscilla Galloway page, Annick Press (publisher web site)
Samuel Goodrich (Peter Parley) Collection, University of Pittsburgh Library
Kenneth Grahame page at Penguin (publisher web site)
Kate Greenaway books in Illuminated Books Online, includes copy of complete Under the Window
Kate Greenaway's A Apple Pie, complete reproduction
Kate Greenaway Collection of Frances Hooper, Carnegie Mellon University Library
Grimm Brothers' Home Page, D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh
Museum of the Brothers Grimm, Kassel, Germany
Grimms' Fairy Tales, National Geographic web site
Nathaniel Hawthorne pages at Eldritch Press, includes book texts
Sarah Henderson Hay Collection, Carnegie Mellon Libraries
Heinrich Hoffmann: 19th Century German stories includes copies of Struwwelpeter with illustrations, in German and English
Isabelle Holland Papers, University of Minnesota Libraries
Mary Howitt web site
Arthur Hughes: Pre-Raphaelite Painter and Book Illustrator
Arthur Hughes in Victorian Web
Langston Hughes pages, Modern American Poetry Site
Langston Hughes and His Poetry, Library of Congress
Langston Hughes biography, Black History Month, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources
Shirley Hughes at Penguin (publisher web site)
Shirley Hughes at Walker Books (publisher web site)
Shirley Hughes Literature Showcase, Arts Council England
Thomas Hughes at Historic Rugby web site
Clement Hurd at HarperCollins (publisher web site)
Trina Schart Hyman pages at Women Children's Book Illustrators
Trina Schart Hyman page, University of Pittsburgh Library
Roberto Innocenti, Italian illustrator
Paul Brett Johnson Author/Illustrator
Books by May Justus for Children and Young Adults
Carolyn Keene: An Interview with Mildred Wirt Benson
John Langstaff and the New York Revels
Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense, an NEH Edsitement lesson
Madeleine L'Engle official site
Into the Wardrobe: A C. S. Lewis Web Site
Astrid Lindgren Swedish web site
Lois Lowry page in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Victor Martinez at HarperCollins (publisher web site)
All About Mercer Mayer, autobiography page
Enrico Mazzanti, Italian illustrator
Robert McCloskey Interviewed by Anita Silvey, The Horn Book
Edna St. Vincent Millay page in Modern American Poetry Site
L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables web site, government of Prince Edward Island
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor at Houghton Mifflin (publisher web site)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor page in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Marilyn Nelson's Labyrinth, University of Connecticut
Marilyn Nelson, Connecticut Poet Laureate
Marilyn Nelson reading a sonnet from A Wreath for Emmett Till on National Public Radio
Edith Nesbit at Masterpiece Theatre web site
Grace Nichols page, British Arts Council
Grace Nichols page at Penguin (publisher web site)
Iona Opie at Candlewick Press (publisher web site)
Iona Opie at Walker Books (publisher web site)
The Ovid Collection, The Metamorphoses, University of Virginia
The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing The Metamorphoses, University of Vermont
Katherine Paterson official web site
Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved review in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Katherine Paterson Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries
Gary Paulsen web pages at Random House
Gary Paulsen Author Profile by Jim Trelease
Gary Paulsen page at Children's Literature Network
Gudrun Pausewang page at Annick Books (publisher web site)
Anne Pellowski page, Minnesota Web Authors and Illustrators
Anne Pellowski Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries
Philippa Pearce page at Penguin (publisher web site)
Philippa Pearce: Tom's Midnight Garden review in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales by D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh
Brian Pinkney page at Random House (publisher web site)
Brian Pinkney page at Children's Literature web site
Beatrix Potter's books online (Ohio University)
World of Peter Rabbit (official UK site, including Beatrix Potter's Lake District house)
Beatrix Potter page, University of Pittsburgh Library
Jack Prelutsky web site
Jack Prelutsky pages at Scholastic (publisher web site)
Arthur Rackham page, University of Pittsburgh Library
Arthur Rackham illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Charles Stanley Reinhart in Victorian Web
Gayle Ross, Cherokee Storyteller
Maurice Sendak: American Masters, Public Broadcasting Service
Maurice Sendak page, Steven Barclay Agency
Maurice Sendak Papers, University of Minnesota Libraries
Interview with Maurice Sendak, Backstage Lincoln Center
E. H. Shepard page, University of Pittsburgh Library
E. H. Shepard page in The Page at Pooh Corner, James Milne web site
Jessie Willcox Smith page, University of Pittsburgh Library
Jessie Willcox Smith illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Jessie Willcox Smith page in Women Children's Book Illustrators
The Robert Southey Page at San Antonio College LitWeb
Jeanne Steig at Harper Collins (publisher web site)
William Steig web site by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Dramas and Tales by R. Rex Stephenson
Robert Louis Stevenson in The Victorian Web
James Still Homepage at Colorado State University
R. L. Stine pages at Scholastic (publisher web site)
Goosebumps pages at Scholastic (publisher web site)
Ann and Jane Taylor: reproduction of Little Ann and Other Poems, illustrated by Kate Greenaway
Ann Taylor Gilbert's Autobiography
Mildred D. Taylor biography at Penguin (publisher web site)
John Tenniel in The Victorian Web
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, Hannibal, Missouri
The Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford, Connecticut
Mark Twain and American Humor, an NEH Edsitement lesson
Mark Twain in His Times, University of Virginia
Chris Van Allsburg page at Houghton Mifflin (publisher web site)
Isaac Watts page in The Cyber Hymnal
E. B. White page at Harper Collins (publisher web site)
E. B. White: Charlotte's Web in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Laura Ingalls Wilder biography, Women's History, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources
Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum, Mansfield, Missouri
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, Minnesota
Garth Williams page at HarperCollins (publisher web site)
William Wordsworth biography, Poet's Corner, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources
Jane Yolen Papers, Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries
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