Research.gif CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDE

Prepared by Kathryn Reynolds
Education & Human Services Librarian


MULTICULTURAL/INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES

  1. Print Resources

    Africa in Literature for Children and Young Adults: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Books
    Dunbar Reference DT 3 .K46 1994

    Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults: An Annotated Guide (3 vols./ 1978, 1983, & 1987)
    Dunbar Reference Z 1037.7 .S38 . . .

    Children's Books from Other Countries
    Dunbar Reference Z 1037 .C5428 1998

    Dictionary of Children's Fiction from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and Selected African Countries: Books of Recognized Merit
    Dunbar Reference PR 9084 .H45 1992

    Eastern Europe in Children's Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Books
    Dunbar Reference PN 1009 .A1 P68 1986

    The Schomberg Center: Guide to Black Literature (from the 18th century to the present)
    Dunbar Reference PN 841 .S36 1996

    Venture into Cultures: A Resource Book of Multicultural Materials & Programs
    Dunbar Reference Z 1037.9 .V46 1992

  2. Electronic Resources

    African Folktales
    http://www.esaleusa.com/africa/

    Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
    http://public.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/

    Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture Links
    http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/chla/links.html

    Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era
    http://imago.library.mcgill.ca/russian/

    The Children's Doorway to Diversity
    http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~miglesia/diversity/index.html

    Cinderella (in American Sign Language)
    http://www.SignWriting.org/cind00.html

    African-American Poetry Database
    http://www.libraries.wright.edu/libnet/databases/world/daap/

    Foreign Language Bookstore for Children
    http://bookswithoutborders.com/

    French Children's Literature
    http://ed1.eng.ohio-state.edu/advancing/dominican/fcl.html

    French Fairy Tales
    http://www.wesleyan.edu/~mennis/fist255s.mle.projects.html

    Greek Children's Literature Page
    http://www.angelfire.com/pe/GrChildLit/

    The International Wizard of Oz Club
    http://12.16.163.163/default.asp

    Islamic Books for Children
    http://www.eecs.uic.edu/~nbutt1/table/childern.html

    Mexican and Latin American Literature: Selected Sources
    http://www.library.csustan.edu/lboyer/modern_languages/mexican.htm

    Multicultural and International: Children's Literature Links
    http://ed1.eng.ohio-state.edu/advancing/mlk/multicultural.htm

    Multicultural Book Review Homepage
    http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html

    Multicultural Children's Literature
    http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/education/multicultural.htm

    El Multiverso De Frolik
    http://www.arconet.es/users/eaponce/
    Links to science fiction related sites in Spanish

    Mything Links
    http://www.mythinglinks.org/ct~creation.html
    Annotated & illustrated collection of worldwide links to mythology, fairy tales, folklore, sacred arts & traditions

    Native American Children's Literature in the Classroom: An Annotated Bibliography
    http://library.humboldt.edu/~berman/naclit.htm

    19th Century German Stories
    http://www.vcu.edu/hasweb/for/menu.html

    Norse Mythology
    http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~cherryne/mythology.html

    Once Upon a Time. . . Japanese Old Tales
    http://mhtml.ulis.ac.jp/~myriam/unegb.html

    Online Children's Literature, Multicultural Paths - Multicultural Pavilion
    http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/multicultural/sites/onlinekidlit.html

    OzKidz Literature (Australian children's & young adult books)
    http://www.ozkidz.gil.com.au/ozlit.html

    Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection
    http://www.libraries.wright.edu/dunbar/

    Read Up On It (National Library of Canada)
    http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/pubs/ruoi/1994/ru94-1e.htm
    Annotated list of award-winning Canadian books in English & French

    Russian Literature
    http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/ruslit.html

    SAWNET: South Asian Books for Kids
    http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/kidsbooks.html

    Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
    http://web.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

    Similarities Between African Folktales and French Folktales (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)
    http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.01.x.html

    Spanish Books for Children and Adults
    http://www.mibibook.com/tabofcon.html

    Tales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World
    http://members.xoom.com/darsie/tales/index.html

    Thirty Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know
    http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/25mult.htm

    Toutes les Fables de Jean de la Fontaine
    http://img.teaser.fr/~jrvidaud/laf/lafon.htm
    La Fontaine's famous fables in French

    World Literature Online Resources
    http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ahart/literature.html

    Writing and Illustrating Multicultural Children's Books
    http://www.underdown.org/multicul.htm



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