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If you are looking for recommended books, check Reviews and Awards
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - selected reviews of children's books from their journal.
Caldecott Medal books -(Listed 1938- Present) the Caldecott medal is awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American children's picture book each year.
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project - Collection of illustrated antique books. Those that are Free to read are under the Library Link.
Children's Picture Book Database -keyword searchable descriptions of over 5000 children's picture books for Preschool - grade 3.
Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners (1970-Present) Awarded to people of African descent who's books especially well represent the "American Dream." Award is in Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & His Widow.
Newbery Medal Winners -Medal awarded annually to an Author of American Children's Literature. Has list of medal winners from 1922- present.
Bartleby.com-Great Books online - Includes reference, biography, quotes, dictionaries, and even fiction (not recent copyrights)
Bibliomania - Includes more than 2000 texts ; fiction and nonfiction.
Big Universe - Web community devoted to children's picture books, online. Paid Memberships allow reading and creating online picture books.
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project - Collection of illustrated antique books. Those that are Free to read are under the Library Link.
The EServer - both a directory and a non-profit publisher of e-books
Project Gutenberg over 27,000 free online books, most published pre-1923 or out of copyright. Project in operation for over 30 years. Searchable by Author or Title words. Now includes both Human read and computer generated audio books.
ReadPrint.com Thousands of out of copyright books, poems and short stories to be read online.
SearchEbooks.com - a search engine for e-books and online book previews
About Our E-books - E-books you can check out for 21 days for free.
| AbeBooks.com Marketplace for books | Barnes and Noble |
| Alibris -used & new, from a worldwide network | Booksense.com |
| Amazon.com | Powell's Books, New, Used & Out of Print |
| Textbooks or chapters from them at iChapters.com |
Best Book Buys Searches over 20 Book sources Bookfinder4u.com - Searches 130 online bookstores and gives you price comparisons, availability and shipping costs. Bizrate.com Searches over 30 Book and Audio Sources CoolDealOnline.com - Searches over 100 online discount bookstores showing price comparisons, reviews and shipping costs. BookBrowse.com. Excerpts, reviews & comparison shopping between bookstores Yahoo! Shopping searches online bookstores for price comparison, merchant ratings, and figures estimated shipping for many stores from your zip code. Bookfinder.com -Over 40 million new, used, rare, and out of print books
Digitized Images of the Gutenberg Bible
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World
Printing: Renaissance and Reformation -Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, U. of South Carolina
Timeline of the Development of Books from the Book Information Website
The Age of King Charles the V - 1,000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts in The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, arranged by manuscript and theme
Browse images of manuscripts at the Bodleian Library at Oxford - approximately 1000 images arranged by period
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Explore Art --Details from Illuminated Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum
A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek ( tours on Mediaeval manuscripts and illumination , Block books and (post-)incunabula, Typography and design until 1800 , Modern Typography and design, and more.)
Leaves of Gold [Shockwave site] -- Philadelphia Museum of Art online exhibit of illuminated
manuscripts
Advanced Book Exchange - thousands of used, secondhand, rare books from 8400 out-of-print booksellers worldwide.
Antiquarian Booksellers Association -- search for books, bookstores and book fairs
Library of Congress Catalog -- Bibliographic records for more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts.
(Barnes & Nobel and Amazon also contain sections that allow searching for out of print books and Ebay and other online auctions have sections on books.)
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