General Links to Children’s Literature
General Links to Children’s Literature –several servers with various kinds of information
Okruh dětské literatury – links to interesting pages.
References to theoretical pages about children’s literature. This one is especially valuable. To get to certain parts, such as „Část A. Autoři a jejich díla“ takes time, but it is worth waiting. BBC-vzdělání, autoři populární dětské literatury – several short bibliographies. The page of Australian bibliophils-- collectors of books for children. You can extend the account of children’s literature on page…, which offers more than 18000 texts written by children themselves (in English), sent in by the classes of creative writing and likewise.
You can find quite a number of texts on …
The supportive page of a different course on children’s literature: „Tato stránka obsahuje základní materiály pro potřeby studentů zapsaných do mediálního programu školní knihovny ve Western Maryland College. Vztahuje se ke specifickým potřebám studentů zapsaných do semináře LS 503 – Dětská literatura, jak jej vyučuje Dr. Ramona (Mona) Kerby.“
DĚTSKÁ ŘÍKADLA – The basic tool for the translator of children’s literature:
A survey of nursery rhymes can be obtained from a number of servers. We chose from the more interesting, as far as the scope is concerned (and more tasteful, as far as their arrangement):
Stránky mámy husy –appear to be the quickest ones. Nursery Rhymes of Tracy Lightfoot offer less rhymes but the commentaries are added.
The genre links that cannot be classified according to the authors: (we are preparing a different itemisation of the page, where the genre and the thematic classification will be highlighted)
- vědecko-fantastická sekce – we are mentioning only the Czech sources, which are, at least, partly dedicated to the Czech editions. The amount and range of the world sources concerning this topic exceed our possibilities. The www book “Science Fiction Without Knickers” is devoted to the genres of sci–fi and fantasy. It is a comprehensive book by Dittmar Chmelař. We can highly recommend its two chapters devoted to the genre of fantasy and do the contrary with some others. The Czech page prepared by Miroslav Krupa concerns fantasy. The less informed will learn about the authors, and surprisingly the Czech editions, whose works are known only to the readers of the magazine “Dračí dech“ (Dragon’s Breath) and the customers of the specialized publishing houses. The information is more valuable than the critical and literary historical parts, which are, by the way, rather brief.
- popular literature – An interesting view into the world of the consumer literature, including the elaborate bibliographies of Rex Stout and E.Gardnera and the Czech translations of their works.