About Us

Children's Literature reviewers read and critically review more than 5,000 books annually. Our mission is to help teachers, librarians, childcare providers and parents make appropriate literary choices for children. Founded in 1993 by Marilyn Courtot, a trained librarian, the review staff has grown to more than 125. Our reviewers include book authors, librarians, writers and editors, teachers, children's literature specialists and physicians. Reviewer biographies are available on our website. We pride ourselves on being an independent review source. We are not affiliated with any publisher and accept no advertising.

The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) Company was established in 1999 as a spin-off from Children's Literature. Initially, CLCD used the reviews from Children's Literature and three other sources to provide an Internet based acquisition, research, and reference service. Currently, CLCD has reviews from more than 3 dozen other professional review media. Its subscribers include schools, libraries, colleges, publishers and booksellers. Support for CLCD was recently moved from the childrenslit.com website to a new website (www.clcd.com).

The Children's Literature Author/Illustrator Booking Service was established in 2007 to assist schools, museums, conferences and other organizations in identifying authors and illustrators for speaking engagements. In addition, CL handles book sales at these events and has developed a turnkey approach that makes it attractive to anyone involved with such events.

Children's Literature also provides support for book sales at numerous other author events, school book fairs and the like. Often we have one or two copies of a book left that we do not bother to return to the publisher. We make those books available on a first come first serve basis at a very attractive price: 50% off list. Links are provided to order forms that identify this month's book sale offerings.