This page provides a links to web sites with additional information about special library collections and professional study groups for childrens' books and media.
American Juvenile Collection (AJC)Arkley Collection of Historical Children's Literature
The Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature
The Augusta Baker Collection of African-American Children's Literature and Folklore
Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
Canadian Children's Books 1799-1939
Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents (California State University San Marcos
Chapbooks: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Child Drama Collection
Children's Literature Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Children's Literature Collection (Lilly Library, Indiana University)
Children's Literature Research Collections which includes The Kerlan, Hess, Paul Bunyan, and Oz Collections
Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University
Daniel Defoe Collection
The deGrummond Children's Literature Collection
Early Juvenile Literature: UNC Greensboro
Elizabeth Nesbitt Room (University of Pittsburgh)
Ernest Thompson Seton Collection
Girls Books in Series: UNC Greensboro
Greek Children's Literature
The Historical Children's Literature Collection
Jonathan Swift Collection
Juvenile Drama Collection
Keene State College Children's Literature Festival
Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota
L.M. Montgomery Collection
Lois Lenski Collection: UNC Greensboro
Louise Seaman Bechtel Collection at Vassar College
Lu Rees Archives
The Mazza Collection
National Art Library (UK): Children's Literature Collections
The Northeast Children's Literature Collection
The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books at the Toronto Public Library
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Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books from University of California Collections, 1550-1990
Rutgers Collection of Original Illustrations for Children's Literature
Scottish Chapbooks
Selected Children's Literature Special Collections (Kay E. Vandergrift)
Special Collections of Children's Literature compiled by Emporia State University
University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections
Wellesley College Library Special Collections
Updated 05/26/04
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