Busse Library provides these resources and book titles for students and faculty seeking information on children's literature. Books listed here are a sampling available in the library and elsewhere.

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Gateways to Resources -- Organizations -- Literary Awards -- Selected Authors and Titles -- Storytelling Resources

Gateways to Resources

• 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know : New York Public Library
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site. By Carol Otis Hurst and Rebcecca Otis.

Organizations

• Canadian Children's Book Center
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education
• Children's Book Council
• Children's Literature Association
• National Storytelling Association (NSA)
• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

Literary Awards

• Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
• Caldecott Medal
• Children and Young Adult Books : Awards
• Coretta Scott King Award -- honors African American authors and illustrators
• Governor-General's Awards for Children's Literature -- honors Canadian authors
• Newbery Medal
• U.S. Children's Book Awards

Selected Authors and Titles

• Margaret Wise Brown -- Goodnight Moon; The Runaway Bunny
• Eric Carle -- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Alexandra Day -- Carl Saves the Day; series about loveable Rottweiler
• Tomie de Paola -- noted illustrator
• Mem Fox -- Koala Lou
• Anna Grossnickle Hines -- noted illustrator
• Crockett Johnson -- Harold and the Purple Crayon
• Ezra Jack Keats -- The Snowy Day
• Dorothy Kunhardt -- Pat the Bunny; classic texture book
• Kathryn Lasky -- Lunch Bunnies; Marvin of the Great North Woods
• Leo Lionni --Animal Fables
• Jacqueline Briggs Martin -- Snowflake Bentley; Iowa writer and winner of the 1999 Caldecott Medal
• Robert Munsch -- Love You Forever

Storytelling Resources