Multicultural Young Adult and Children's Literature
Updated by Aparna Zambare. The following is a selected list of multicultural young adult and children's literature resources on the World Wide Web. The listings have been checked for currency and address (URL) accuracy as of May 17, 2007. The user is cautioned, however, that while it probably will not happen with the following sites/home pages, the Web is quite fluid, and what appears one day might well disappear the next. For more information and/or reference assistance, please contact Aparna Zambare (Email: aparna.zambare@cmich.edu, Phone: 989-774-6427) or ask at the Reference Desk on the second floor of the Park Library (Phone: 774-3470).
World Wide Web Sites
Children's Literature Web Guide: Internet Resources Related to Books for Children and Young Adults
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
The best Web site on the general subject of juvenile literature, this page is "an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults." While not specifically devoted to multicultural issues, this site is, nevertheless, a must for anyone interested in the study of children's literature.
Developing Multiculural Curriculum
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/multicultural_curr.php
Mainained by Carolyn Brush, a teacher at River Edge, N.J., this site provides information on developing multicultural curriculum and teaching students about world cultures.
International Children's Digital Library
http://www.icdlbooks.org/
Maintained by the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab and The Internet Archive, the International Children's Digital Library contains, with illustrations, hundreds of children's books. The purpose of the site is to inspire the world's children to become members of the global community and help them understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages, and ideas.
Literature for Children
http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/
Literature for Children is comprised of volumes from the Departments of Special Collections at several of the State University System of Florida libraries. It is a growing collection of digitized titles published, predominantly in the United States and Great Britain, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. The collection is of international significance for researchers who study historical, cultural, social and literary aspects of children's literature.
Multicultural Resources for Children
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/multipub.htm
This Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) media site provides multicultural resources for children, parents, teachers and librarians. It lists general resources as well as bibliographies on multicultural topics.
Multicultural Book Review Homepage
http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html
"The purpose of this page is to create a qualitative list of multicultural literature for K-12 educators." The books cited are reviewed by educators for educators and each review cites what age group a book is most suitable for as well as assigns it a qualitative overall grade based upon the content, quality, and subject.
Multicultural Pavilion: Resources and Dialogues for Educators, Students, & Activists
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/
An excellent site for multicultural resources in general. See especially the page on Teacher's Corner which is rich in "teaching tools for multicultural curriculum transformation." Another must Web site.
National Network for Child Care: Selected Bibliography of Multicultural Fiction and Poetry
http://www.nncc.org/Literacy/bibl.multicult.fict.htm
A lengthy and important resource compiled by Masha Kabakow Rudman, Profession of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies at the University of Massachusetts. Appropriate age levels are given for each entry.