Location: The CLIC, Ruffner Hall, Room 302  
Librarian's Telephone: 434.924.7040

Summer Hours for the CLIC
         Monday-Friday 8am - 5pm
         Saturday & Sunday CLOSED

What is in the U.Va. Library's Children's Book Collection?

WHAT: Children's Book Collection WHERE: The CLIC, Room 302 Ruffner Hall SEARCH THE COLLECTION: Use this specialized VIRGO link that pulls up only children's books. COLLECTION: 7,000 award winning books of fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, science fiction, board books, fairy tales, and picture books. The collection also has bi-lingual books. TO CHECK OUT BOOKS: Please use our self service check out machine. Return books to any library or to the bin next to the self service check out machine. See the photo below.

Use the CLIC's Self Service Check Out Machine

To check out books from this collection, use our self service checkout machine that is located in the room with the collection. Return books to any library or to the book bin next to the self service check out machine.

 

Children's Ebooks

Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project has online children's books that are public domain, published before 1923, and have no copyright restrictions.

International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)
The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community

Baldwin Library's Historical Childrens Book Collection

Children's Library@Internet Archive

Library of Congress: Digitized Rare Books

Storyline Online

Starfall

These Databases Can Help You Locate the Best Books

Use these databases to find a book and then check VIRGO to determine if it is in the U.Va. Library's Childrens Book Collection

Carol Hurst's Children's Litrature Site
This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database 1993-present
This database contains information and reviews on children's books, videos and audio books ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults.

Horn Book Guide March 2010 -present
Horn Book Guide publishes short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people.

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature. The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards. I expect the user to be a librarian or a teacher intervening for a child-reader, however anyone may make use of it to find the best in children's literature including parents, book store personnel, and children and young adults themselves. As of May 2011, DAWCL has over 8,700 records from 102 awards across six English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland).

 Blogs for Children's Literature

ESSL Children's Literature Blog

Listservs related to Children's Literature