Community Resources

Social networking, online and face-to-face

Gain a depth of personal and professional contacts

Widen your field for collaborative projects

Obtain answers to questions from people in the field

Be part of this community who understands and supports
your love of reading

Members-only Events

Conversations with special guests (small meetings and dinners with children's literature people, editors, celebrated authors and illustrators)

Themed parties (e.g., Night Before the Newbery)

Workshops

Reduced admission at CLN programming

Discounts and coupons for the STORe

Publications

CLN's magazine, InterroBang, is published monthly online in PDF format with articles, columns, and CLN member news. If you'd like to read our March 2006 issue before you join, click here.

Website with calendar, useful data, links to children's book sites

E-mail announcements about people, places, and books, with
insider tips

Members-only news about publishing, books, and people in the field, updated frequently

Online Resources

Databases with printable labels

Publishers

Awards available

Grants available

State children's choice awards

Web directory listing at the Membership Plus membership rate. This provides a CLN website page for authors and illustrators, educators, speakers, librarians, editors, literacy organizations, publishers, booksellers, and institutions providing information that encourages CLN visitors to visit your website. Ask us if you have specific questions about the type of information you may feature on these pages.

By state

Alphabetical

Within your field

Web resources for members only

Reviews

Booklists

Articles

Teaching guides and links to teaching guides

Discussion boards

Ask an educator, librarian, author, or illustrator

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