Education @ Webster University Libraries

Offers many helpful features, including book lists on various topics, publishing trends, information on challenges to books in libraries and schools, and links to related Web sites.

The most comprehensive index of Web sites related to children's literature. Provides access to online stories, topical bibliographies, book reviews, book awards, electronic journals, information on books, movies based on children's books, authors, publishers, and booksellers, and much more.

Good source for children's book reviews arranged by title, author, or grade level. Also offers lesson ideas for curriculum areas or particular themes (e.g. Native Americans). Provides a newsletter and links to related resources for teachers.

Users can enter criteria, such as age level, historical period, publication year, and nation of origin, and receive a list of award-winning children's books that match these characteristics. Each resulting entry includes the author, title, year, award won, and a brief abstract.

From the School of Education at the University of Arizona, this site showcases culturally authentic international children’s and adolescent literature and gives teachers strategies to use these works in teaching.

Find books by lexile score

A national multimedia project that offers a wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.

LibraryThing - a place to find information about books and organize your own personal library, now has Lexile measures for about a third of its collection. This blog post explains more.