Windows to Other Worlds


The following are some useful websites related to histories of children’s literature and archives of children’s books from other nations and cultures. While some online digitised collections provide access to full texts of early and rare volumes, other sites present illustrated catalogues or concentrate on special aspects of juvenile literature. Most of these display their archival contents along with contextual explanations and critical comments and are prefaced with brief histories of the genre.

Children’s Book Illustrators
http://www.ortakales.com/illustrators/

Children’s Books Online: The Rosetta Project
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/

(The) Children’s Nursery and its Traditions
http://www.childrensnursery.org.uk/

(The) Development of British Children's Literature in the 18th-Century
http://18thcbritishchildrensliterature.weebly.com/index.html

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls 1867-1906
http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/printing/dimenovels.html#top

(The) Hockliffe Project:
http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/hockliffe/

International Children’s Digital Library
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Literature for Children
http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/

Nineteenth Century American Children and What they Read
http://www.merrycoz.org/kids.htm

Nineteenth Century Schoolbooks
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/

Social History of Children’s Literature
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/childlit/HistoryofChildLit/index.html

The World of the Child: Two Hundred Years of Children’s Books
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/child/

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