The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Children's Literature

See also under Literature: General Works, and literature time periods (e.g., Literature: Medieval).

• The Children's Literature Web Guide: Internet Resources Related to Books for Children and Young Adults (David K. Brown, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary). Includes links to sites containing free full-text stories and books.
• The Cinderella Project (Edited by Michael N. Salda hosted by the University of Southern Mississippi). Version 1.1, December 1997, with additional material September 1999. Full-text English versions in HTML format of this medieval story, along with images, drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection. Date updated: 2004-07-07.
• The Hockliffe Project. Leicster and Bedford, UK: Department of English and the Centre for Technology and the Arts, De Montfort University, 2001. This project aims to digitize the entire Hockliffe Collection of " over a thousand early British children's books." The collection can be searched or browsed by broad subject categories. The earliest digitized works date back to the 1700s. Date accessed: 2004-08-22. Date added: 2004-08-22.
• International Children's Digital Library. College Park, MD: Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland San Francisco, CA: Internet Archive. This five-year research project launched in November 2002 is developing " innovative software and a [multilingual] collection of books that specifically address the needs of children as readers." Children are research partners in this effort to scan and make available 10,000 books from 100 cultures. Date accessed: 2002-11-26. Date added: 2002-11-26.
• The Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project (Edited by Michael N. Salda hosted by University of Southern Mississippi). Version 1.0, May 1997. Includes online texts in HTML format and images drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection.
• The Little Red Riding Hood Project (Edited by Michael N. Salda hosted by University of Southern Mississippi). Version 1.0, December 1995. Full-text English versions in HTML format and images drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection. Date updated: 2004-07-07.
• The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books Presents Victorian Children's Activities (Toronto Public Library, ON). Digital facsimiles and transcriptions from selected works preserved in this collection which are associated with children's lives during the Victorian era.
• Young Readers Electronic Texts (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library). Searchable/browsable collection of electronic versions of works considered classics of literature for young people. Some works are restricted access.

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