Links on Children's and Juvenile Literature

Children's and Juvenile Literature in General

• Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
  German Youth Literature Prize. Prizewinning and nominated books can be found in a database (click "Archiv/Recherche")
• Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids
  Search engine for sites specifically for children. In English
• TourLiteratur: Links on children's and juvenile literature
• List of children's literature authors
  from the Wikipedia (German version)
• Kinderbuch-Couch.de
  Information portal for parents on children's books from 0-6 years old
• Lilipuz: book tips (WDR 5)
• Children's Literature Web Guide (Univ. of Calgary, Kanada)

Organisations, Institutions

Institutes, Research institutions

• Children's Literature Association (ChLA)
• Department of Children's and Juvenile Literature of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
• LesArt - Berlin Centre for Children's and Youth Literature
• Institut für Jugendbuchforschung, University of Frankfurt/M.
• Lesezentrum der Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg
• Center for Reading Research and Children's and Youth Media (Aleki), University of Cologne
• International Youth Library, Munich
• OlFoKi (Uni Oldenburg, Forschungsstelle Kinder- und Jugendliteratur)
• Project on Retrospective digitizing of children's and juvenile books of BIS, University of Oldenburg
• Institut für angewandte Kindermedienforschung, Stuttgart
• Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Volkach
• Institut für Jugendliteratur, Wien

Associations

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Jugendliteratur und Media of the GEW
• Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur, Munich
• International board on books for young people (IBBY)
• Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Jugendarbeit Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V.
• Verein zur Förderung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V.
• Österreichischer Buchklub der Jugend
• Europäische Märchengesellschaft

Special Subject Collections

of German university and special libraries, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg at Frankfurt/M oversees the special collection of German studies (as well as Linguistics and Literature Studies in General). English and American studies are administered by Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek at Göttingen. Both institutions also acquire children's and juvenile literature. New additions are published in current bibliographies or can be searched online.

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