Children’s Literature & Fantasy Research Resources

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/ SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1500 illustrations

http://www.bitingdogpress.com/zipes/zipes.html Interview with Jack Zipes

http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2004/danceswithwolves.asp article on RRH by Catherine Orenstein

http://www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/lrrh/lrrhhome.htm The red riding hood project

http://www.donnajonapoli.com/

http://www.robinmckinley.com/

Authors and Illustrators covered in CanKidLit (3903):

Nicolas Debon http://ndebon.tripod.com/

http://www.groundwoodbooks.com/gw_authors.cfm?author_id=192

Brian Doyle http://www.groundwoodbooks.com/gw_authors.cfm?author_id=180

http://umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol19no2/briandoyle.html "You Have to Think and Feel Like Your Readers" By Mary Budziszewski in Canadian Materials 19.2 (1991).

http://www.bookcentre.ca/news/archives/awards/000036.shtml World Literature Today jury selects Brian Doyle for the 2005 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

http://www.bookcentre.ca/news/archives/top/000105.shtml IBBY Canada announces Canadian nominees for international Hans Christian Andersen Awards

http://www.artsalive.ca/pdf/eth/activities/angel_square.pdf A reader's theatre presentation guide based on Angel Square by The National Arts Centre Reader's Theatre

http://www.writerscafe.ca/playaudio/brian-doyle_boy-oboy.php?pauser=on&plugsfound=quicktime&vbr=&bookID=30&counter=0 interview with BD and a reading from Boy O' Boy

Hadley Dyer http://hadleydyer.blogspot.com/

http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/dyer.html

http://www.canscaip.org/bios/dyerh.html

http://www.harpercollins.ca/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0006395333

George Littlechild http://www.georgelittlechild.com/main.htm

http://www.bearclawgallery.com/Paintings.aspx?ArtistID=24

http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A312 Native American Authors Project website

http://willockandsaxgallery.com/littlec1.htm includes a biography

http://www.abheritage.ca/albertans/articles/littlechild.html a longer biography that discusses Littlechild's reclaiming of his ancestral heritage after growing up in foster care

Kevin Major http://www4.newcomm.net/kmajor/

http://www.quillandquire.com/books_young/review.cfm?review_id=5179 review of Hold Fast

Kit Pearson http://www.kitpearson.com/

http://www.canscaip.org/bios/pearsonk.html CANSCAIP bio

http://www.bookcentre.ca/gg/pearson.htm CCBC bio

http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol3/no8/awake.html review of Awake and Dreaming by Dave Jenkinson in CM Magazine 3.8 (1996)

Tim Wynne Jones http://www.timwynne-jones.com/

http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol22no1/timwynnejones.html "Profile: Tim Wynne-Jones" by Joyce MacPhee Canadian Materials 22.1 (1994)

http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol16no6/timwynnejones.html Tim Wynne-Jones" By Melanie Fogel Canadian Materials 16.6 (1998)

http://www.bookcentre.ca/gg/tw-jones.htm bio with links to some of his books, including The Maestro, and a list of selected articles on it.

http://www.canlit.ca/reviews-review.php?id=9768 mention of The Maestro in Adrienne Kertzer's review of Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels by Roberta Seelinger Trites

http://www.groundwoodbooks.com/gw_authors.cfm?author_id=188

Artists & Illustrators:

http://www.artpassions.net/ (Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Gustave Dore, Kay Nielsen, Fairies & Fairy Tales...)

FANTASY

Note: See References at end of every chapter in Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction.

General:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/index.html : biographies of fantasy writers; may be useful.

www.powells.com/home.html : a book buying website but you can search the books and read synopses on the books written by the publisher.

www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive : list of some of the authors- with reviews on their books, not quite sure how reliable it is.

www.sffworld.com : variety of comments on authors’ books.

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page : Information on some of the writers and their books, equipped with an easy to use search engine.

http://members.tripod.com/Snyder_AMDG/FairyTales2.html The Christian Guide to Fantasy (so you can see how some books on the course rate...)

http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/fantov.html Fantasy Overview (Victorian Era)

Authors & Illustrators on Course (past & present):

Orson Scott Card http://www.hatrack.com/index.shtml

Peter Dickinson http://www.peterdickinson.com/

William Goldman http://smorgenstern.pkmoutl.net/ The Princess Bride: The Good Parts Website

Virginia Hamilton http://www.virginiahamilton.com/Default.htm

Ursula LeGuin http://www.ursulakleguin.com/

http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/01/23/le_guin/

Robin McKinley http://www.robinmckinley.com/

Mark Oakley's Thieves & Kings page: http://www.iboxpublishing.com/

Philip Pullman http://www.randomhouse.com/features/pullman/philippullman/speech.html

http://www.bridgetothestars.net/index.php?p=stagework re: staging and play production

Shaun Tan. http://www.abc.net.au/abcasiapacific/englishbites/stories/m467881.ram

--- http://www.cdesign.com.au/aate/aate_papers/132_tan.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2002/s603827.htm radio report

http://www.wordstruck.co.nz/bio_tan.html

Colin Thompson http://www.colinthompson.com/

David Wiesner http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/wiesner/home.html

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/wiesner.html