Other great resources!
The Wikipedia page for children’s literature criticism provides a nice, accessible summary of critical approaches, as well as a solid list of references for further reading, and some external resources.
The Wikipedia page for children’s literature periodicals explains the different types of periodicals and provides links to the 11 journals that cover children’s literature.
A (working) list of other tumblrs (and some outside blogs) that are focused on children’s books/literature. I’ll occasionally reblog from or link to these, but for the most part they’re very different:
- http://realkidsgoodbooks.tumblr.com/
- http://book-aesthete.tumblr.com/tagged/Children%27s_Books
- http://book-aesthete.tumblr.com/tagged/Fairies
- http://nypl.tumblr.com/tagged/children%27s_books
- http://yaykidlit.tumblr.com/
- http://fuckyeahchildrensbooks.tumblr.com/
- http://kidlitstorytime.tumblr.com/
- http://36pages.com/red-wagon/
- http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/
- http://childrensbooks.tumblr.com/
- http://weheartbooks.com/about/
- http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/
- http://www.pbjunkies.blogspot.com/
- http://booksforkidsingayfamilies.blogspot.com/
- http://booksfordonoroffspring.blogspot.com/
- http://yabooksfordonoroffspring.blogspot.com/
- http://www.leewind.org/ (blog title: I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell do I Read? - check out the left column for YA and children’s titles!)
- http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/
- http://vegbooks.org/
- International Children’s Digital Library: A library for the World’s Children
- Amelia Bloomer Project: Recommended Feminist Literature for Birth through 18
- A Tapestry of Words: YA Reviews (and opinion and giveaways and more!)
- ALAN: Assembly on Literature for Adolescents
- Library of the Early Mind: A Grown-Up Look at the Art of Children’s Literature
- IRSCL: International Research Society for Children’s Literature
- National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature
- SurLaLune Fairy Tales
- Children’s Book Council
- Society of Children’s Book Writer’s and Illustrators
