There are tons of interesting websites out there that are of interest for this class especially. I decided that in order to be more useful I wanted to focus on a particular segment of children's literature. I decided that I wanted to focus on Multicultural Children's Literature and in doing so, I was able to find resources that have to deal with this topic particularly.
The first website I found was the Multicultural Children's Literature.
It was really helpful because there was a plethora of resources such as other websites, bibliographies, articles and other books about multicultural issues in children's literature. It's really helpful if you work in a diverse school setting such as mine.
Another website I thoroughly enjoyed was the Celebrating Cultural Diversity through Children's Literature website. In the same vain, this website also provided tons of online resources such as other websites. They also listed loads of children's literature that were categorized by certain ethnic groups and age group. This website was more of a tool to help categorize all the books but it can certainly be useful if you plan to use culturally sensitive books in your classroom.
The third website comes from Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. They have set up a website for teachers to cross reference various books on multiculturalism and the various themes set within a certain book. This website was set up because teachers felt there was a disconnect between trade books and themes about multiculturalism.
This fourth website I found was really interesting. It is the International Children's Digital Library.
I really liked this website because it allows children to open an account and digitally download books from all over the world. It's sort of a library of books from most places in the world.
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