LINKSPAM: Readers' Advisory Resources

I'm cleaning up my in-browser bookmarks. I've been agonizing over whether to use Diigo, Delicious, or just plain Google Bookmarks. Basically, I'm angry that you can't make sub-folders or sub-lists in any of them. So, I decided to start using my blog more effectively to collect links I like, especially for Reader's Advisory.

TODAY'S LINKSPAM: READER'S ADVISORY RESOURCES!

Children's Literature

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature: Research purposes.

How To Find Good Children's Lit: A thorough lists of all of the awards from professional associations. I used it to buy all of the Pura Belpre award winners, and keep referring back to it. (Courtesy of Philip Nel, Nine Kinds of Pie.)

Juvenile Series & Sequels Database: The most helpful link in the ENTIRE WORLD if you're on a reference desk and don't know what order the Wimpy Kid books go in.

Radical Children's Literature Now: List of books that teach children to question authority. Vigilante Librarian is a big fan of this. (Courtesy of Philip Nel, Nine Kinds of Pie.)

School Collection: Children's Lit (UIUC): My lovely library school created this for research purposes. 

S.A.L.S.A. (CPS Dept. of Libraries): The DOL @ Chicago Public Schools works so hard to create equitable lists for our ELL students. This is a great resource for school librarians like myself. 

Graphic Novels

Best Graphic Novels for Children (Goodreads List): As an avid Goodreads user, I'm a troll of these kinds of lists. 

Graphic Novels 4 Girls: A website that gets girls into comics? Love it! Searchable by genre.

Short Takes: 27 Graphic Novels for African American History Month: I serve children of color, and I used this to help find materials to make my collection chromatic. My students deserve to see themselves in comics. Via Library Journal. (Related: From Aya to Zapt! and Holy Black History Month!)

Young Adult Lit

100 YA Books for the Feminist Reader:  BITCH Magazine, it's like you know me.

SYNC: "SYNC offers free Young Adult and Classic audiobook downloads to introduce the listening experience." YESSS.

Top 100 Banned Books, 2000-2009: I printed ALA's list out for my 8th graders last year and let them go to town. There is no better way to get a teen to read a book than to tell them they can't read it.

#YA Saves: Not technically a list, but if there was a battle cry for YA, this is it. Sherman Alexie laid the smackdown in the Wall Street Journal. I also had 7th/8th graders read this, and we bonded. They also actively sought out every book he mentioned in the article.