Association of Booksellers for Children. An organization of independent bookstores that are committed to selling quality children's books.

American Library Association. Find out which books have won ALA awards, including the Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, Sibert, Pura Belpre, Coretta Scott King, and see lists of Notable Children's Books, Best Books for Young Adults, and more.

Tracey Adams, my agent.

The Author's Guild provides legal services to authors, offers workshops on topics like book promotion and contracts, and advocates for author's rights.

Booksense.com. Try this site when you want to purchase books from an independent bookstore near you.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, a book review journal.

Children's Book Council, a nonprofit trade association of children's book publishers. Supports literacy and sponsors the annual observance of National Children's Book Week and Young People's Poetry Week.

Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Horn Book Magazine. Includes Boston Globe Horn Book Award winners.

International Board on Books for Young People, a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people who are committed to bringing books and children together. Aims to promote international understanding through children's books; to give children everywhere the opportunity to have access to books with high literary and artistic standards; to encourage the publication and distribution of quality children's books, especially in developing countries; to provide support and training for those involved with children and children's literature; to stimulate research and scholarly works in the field of children's literature.

National Council of Teachers of English. Includes a list of winners of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children.

New York Library Association. Every state has a library association. This one's mine.

PEN, an international writer's organization committed to protecting freedom of speech.

Publishers Weekly. Read reviews, or sign up to receive the free, weekly e-mail newsletter, Children's Bookshelf. Click on Newsletters/Subscribe.

Raab Associates.Children's book publicity and marketing.

Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. The first place to go if you're interested in writing or illustrating children's books.

The Purple Crayon.A website run by editor and author Harold Underdown. Up-to-date, useful information about children's book publishing.

Children's and YA Book Review Sites
www.bookwire.com/bbr/children/children.html
www.buildingrainbows.com/
www.carolhurst.com
http://childrensbooks.about.com/
www.childrenslit.com/
http://dadtalk.typepad.com/book_buds_kidlit_reviews/
www.educationoasis.com/ch_book_reviews/childrens_book_reviews.htm
www.kidsreads.com/
www.lookingglassreview.com/
www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/journals.html

Publishers

Clarion Books, publisher of Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso and Painting the Wild Frontier: The Art and Adventures of George Catlin (forthcoming, 2008).

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, publisher of José! Born to Dance: The Story of José Limón.

Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, publisher of Penelepe Bailey Takes the Stage.

Children's and YA literature blogs
http://bookmoot.blogspot.com/
http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/
http://chickenspaghetti.typepad.com/chicken_spaghetti/
http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/
http://fusenumber8.blogspot.com/
http://www.hbook.com/blog/
http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/
http://kidslitinformation.blogspot.com/
http://ozandends.blogspot.com/
http://planetesme.blogspot.com/
http://yabookscentral.blogspot.com/
http://yzocaet.blogspot.com/