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Rock Canyon University Free School of Writing for Children -- courses for all levels of writers. |
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Sandbaggers -- Website run by a group of children's book writers. Lots of good information for people who want to write, including a free downloadable manuscript management program, SAMM. |
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The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators -- The organization that most professional children's writers and illustrators in the country belong to. |
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Wordplay -- Dozens of links to websites on word topics--homonymns, slang, anagrams, sign language, cliches, creative writing, spelling rules, synonyms, acronyms, collective nouns, poetry, crosswords, foreign languages, heteronymns, jargon, vocabulary, new words, oxymorons, phonetics, puns, rhetoric, rhymes, spelling, humor, and much, much more. A one stop shop for anything having to do with words. |
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The Writer's Guidelines Database -- A guide to paying, non-fiction publication on the Web. |
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Colossal Directory of Children's Publishers Online -- A huge collection of children's book publishers, with links to their sites and their writers' guidelines. |
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Smartwriters -- Lots of resources for writers, readers, and lovers of children's literature. |
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Writing, Illustrating, and Publishing Children'es Books: The Purple Crayon -- A lot of information from a children's book editor and the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books. |
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Children's Book Council -- The Children's Book Council (CBC) is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of children's books, and is the official sponsor of Young People's Poetry Week and Children's Book Week each year. The Council's Members include U.S. publishers and packagers of trade books for children and young adults. |
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