A Children's Literature Web Guide offers children's bestsellers in Canada and the United States, conference and Book related events and reviews online. The site also includes reports on author tours, provides excerpts from review sources for prose and poetry and includes awards listings. This site is set up for full text searching via author or title indexes. A number of sites provide links to this resource. The entire contents of Encyclopedia Britannica is available at this Web site.
Searchers can access information using a directory of topics or a search engine.
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