A Collection of Children's and YA Lit. Blogs
Mostly Sticking to the Main Road: blogs that deal more directly with
individual books
Big A little
a: Children's Books, Writing, and Life
Blog from the Windowsill:
This is a blog for the staff of "Notes from the Windowsill," to talk about
children's books and what we're reading.
Book Buds:
Reviews and More
Book Moot: The word
moot is an archaic term meaning "argue, debate, discuss." In early English
history, a moot was a meeting to discuss local affairs. Moot comes from
the Old English gemot, meaning "meeting."
Children's Books Blog
Confessions of a Bibliovore:
The generally book-related ramblings of a recovering English major and
brand-new librarian.
Fairrosa's Reading Journal:
This journal is a reminder to myself of what I've read and thought of
them at the time. These are not plot summaries, nor they reviews. Be warned:
Spoilers do pop up.
A Fuse #8 Production:
Children's literature is not for the weak. It's a ruthless cutthroat business
with lots of gnashes of the teeth. Children's librarianship, in contrast,
in a sweet sweet ride. I'm just gonna include links and tips to things
I find intereting, while also including a review of a children's book
each day.
The Goddess of YA Literature
The Inter-Galactic Playground:
A web site dedicated to children's literature and particularly children's
science fiction.
Jen Robinson's Book Page:
Promoting the love of books by children, and the continued reading of
children's books by adults
Kids Lit: Books
and More for Children and Teens
Meredith Reads YA:
A reading log of young adult fiction with a particular focus on Canadian
and Atlantic Canadian books.
Muller In the Middle:
These are mini-reviews which I post on LM_net, a listserv for school librarians.
The comments are soley mine.
The :: New :: Misrule Blog:
My little place on the web...
The Planet Esme Book-A-Day Plan:
The Best New Children's Books from Esme's Shelf: Welcome to the Wonderful
World of PlanetEsme! I hope this book-a-day plan will be a boon to anyone
who would like to play a supporting character in a child's reading life
story. This blog is a supporting page to sister site PlanetEsme.com ,
where you will find a silly amount of additional reviews, thematic lists,
links, and much more...everything you need to become an expert in children's
literature.
Poetry for Children:
About finding and sharing poetry with young people
ReadingYA: Readers' Rants
- You love it, you hate it, you want to rant or rave about it. Do it here!
Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone:
The Spoiler Zone for Scholar's Blog, the fantasy book review site. Reader
Beware - Spoilers abound !
Seven
Impossible Things Before Breakfast: A Blog about Books: We
read lots of different kinds of books: picture books for toddlers, memoirs,
young adult fiction, graphic novels, Man Booker Prize-winning high-art
metafiction, whatever. And we’ll write about them, whenever we can, in
the hopes that we can.
Wands and Worlds:
Fantasy and science fiction for children and teens.
Words, words, words: Ruminations
and Pontifications
Young
Adult (& Kid's) Books Central Blog
The Meandering
Group:
blogs with information and musings of the field
ACHOCKABLOG: the
weblog of Michael Thorn, editor of ACHUKA
bookshelves
of doom: reviews, book news, my life and anything else I think
is interesting.
Brooklyn Arden:
Arden: noun [from geography and Shakespeare, 2005] 1. A small forest of
words in the great metropolis of Brooklyn 2. A collection of ruminations,
photographs, and lists on topics including (but not limited to) books, writing,
movies, politics, Scrabble, snack foods, and life 3. The blog of Cheryl
Klein, reader, children's books editor, and young lady about town
Buried in the Slush Pile:
Ever wonder what those editors and publishers are thinking? Half the time
it's too many things at once. I'm an editor with a small press, and I'm
starting up a small press of my own. And you thought writing the book was
the hard part.
Chicken
Spaghetti: Books for children and the rest of us, too
The Lady Rona:
A Youth Literature Chronicle
McBookwords
Notes from the Slush Pile:
reportage from the front line - news, talks, essays, workshops and conferences
on children's writing.
Original Content:
Author Gail Gauthier's Reflections On Children's Books, Writing, And The
Kidlit World
Read Roger: The
Horn Book editor's rants and raves
Scholar's Blog:
Blog for an English independent scholar of fantasy fiction. WARNING: I will
post commentary about books in which I am interested and I may include spoilers,
so if you do not like spoilers, do not read this Blog !
What I'm Reading:
the reading (mostly) journal of Linda Sue Park
Where is Walter This
Week?
Writing with a broken tusk:
A blog about writing process and the creation of books for children
The YA Novel and Me by
Gail Giles
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