Literature - Picture Books

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Canadian Children's Illustrated Books in English

A comprehensive examination of Canadian picture books from the perspective of the historical context and development and the contemporary state of writing, illustrating, and publishing of children's illustrated books in Canada.

CBC Books - online links to books, news, reviews, authors, blogs, articles, podcasts and twitter tweets on what people are reading right now.  Great info for you and your classroom.

Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

This is a searchable database of children's picture books that offers abstracts of over 5000 books; search capabilities for over 950 keywords, including topics, concepts, and skills which describe each book; and web links for keywords so that up-to-date content knowledge can be integrated with the site's picture book resources. Easy to use.

The Eric Carle Musuem of Picture Book Art

The Education Resource area includes bibliograhies from other countries and specific themes, picture book history and recommendations.

Picturing Books

This site provides resources and links about picture books as well as details about their structures, special features and components. Learn about controversial picture books, images media and artistic style used on picture books. An excellent site.