Websites for Children's Book Reviews

• Planet Esme with Esme Codell http://www.planetesme.com
• Book Links Magazine: http://www.ala.org/BookLinks
• Booklist: http://www.ala.org/booklist/index.html
• BookHive: Your Guide to Children's Literature and Books: http://www.bookhive.org
• The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/
• The Children's Book Council: http://www.cbcbooks.org
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: http://www.carolhurst.com
• Spaghetti Book Club http://www.spaghettibookclub.org/about.html

Multicultural Book Reviews

• Cynthia Leitich Smith's Muticultural Children's and Young Adult Books: http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/auth-illA-I.htm
• Making Multicultural Connections Through Trade Books: http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/MBD/Books_Begin.html
• Multicultural Book Reviews: http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/joe.html
• Multicultural Pavilion: Teacher's Corner: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/centers/multicultural/teachers.html

Databases and Bibliographies

• Children's Space Books Database: http://www.alexaart.com/Books2.html
• Nancy Keane's Book Talks: http://nancykeane.com/booktalks
• Science Fiction and Fantasy for Children: an annotated bibliography for educators: http://libnt1.lib.uoguelph.ca/SFBib/index.htm

Family Literacy or Parenting Support Sites

• ALA for Parents and Caregivers: http://www.ala.org/alsc/parents.links.html#literature
• Family.com: http://family.go.com
• Family Education: http://www.familyeducation.com/home
• Family Literacy Foundation: http://www.read2kids.org/
• Parent's Place: http://www.parentsplace.com
• Partnership for Family Involvement in Education: http://pfie.ed.gov/
• Smarter Kids Parenting Center:
  http://www.smarterkids.com/rescenter/default.asp?linkID=82

For more literacy sites, see Circle Time e-zine: http://www.circletime.com/subpgs/litlinks.htm