Useful links

A list of some handy children's literature sites. Our newsletter, What's the Story, occasionally features an internet column with more interesting sites to visit.

There are other related links throughout the site. Websites for individual authors and illustrators are listed in their profiles. Do you have a site to suggest? Email us and we'll take a look.

• New Zealand: literary organisations
• New Zealand: literary festivals & occasions
• New Zealand: databases & resources
• New Zealand: blogs & columns
• Overseas: literary organisations
• Overseas: literary festivals & occasions
• Overseas: databases & resources
• Overseas: blogs & columns

New Zealand: literary organisations

• New Zealand Book Council
• Booksellers New Zealand 
• Te Tai Tamariki
• Bookrapt (Bay of Plenty Children's Literature Association)
• Wellington Children's Book Association
• New Zealand Reading Association
• School for Young Writers
• New Zealand Society of Authors - including advice on getting published, how to contact manuscript assessors and links to writing courses.
• Illustration Agency
• Tim Bray Productions 
• PERFORM

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New Zealand: literary festivals & occasions

• Kids Lit Quiz
• New Zealand Book Month 
• Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
• New Zealand International Arts Festival
• Christchurch Writers Festival
• Going West 

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New Zealand: databases and resources

• Stories, books and authors -  links from Christchurch City Libraries
• NZLibraries.com - links to New Zealand public libraries

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New Zealand: blogs and columns

• Beattie's Book Blog 
• Radio New Zealand: Nine to Noon Children's Book Reviews

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Overseas: Literary organisations

• IBBY
• International Reading Association
• Children's Book Council of Australia
• Inside a Dog
• Seven Stories

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Overseas: Literary festivals  & occasions

• Literary Festivals Australia 
• Bologna Children's Book Fair
• Hay Festival
• Edinburgh Book Festival
• Bath Festival of Children's Literature

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Overseas: databases and resources

• Children's Picture Book Database
• Database of Award-winning Children's Literature
• Paper Tigers

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Overseas: blogs and columns

• Barack Obama's speech about libraries
• Achuka
• Read Roger
• School Library Journal blogs

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