High-Quality Children's Books

The following Web sites provide information on high-quality children's literature:

• Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Awards and Notables

• A sample from the 2004 edition of The Best Children's Books of the Year
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• Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page

• Children's Literature Web Guide

• Books for Beginning Readers: A Bibliography of Trade Books for Young Children (Jenson, 1998)

• Tales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World

• How to Choose the Best Multicultural Books

• African-American Voices in Children's Fiction

• Powerful African-American Images Revealed in Picture Books (Part One: A-L)

• Powerful African-American Images Revealed in Picture Books (Part Two: M-Z)

• Powerful Asian-American Images Revealed in Picture Books

• Powerful Hispanic and Latin-American Images Revealed in Picture Books

• Powerful Native-American Images Revealed in Picture Books

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