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This page is very much under construction! These links are just the beginning – please mail Sue if you have a page you’d like linked, or if you find something while browsing which you think should be here. Apologies, too, that it’s very Britocentric: again, you can correct this by sending us more links.
Robert Lucas: The Essentials of Book Collecting Book Think: articles on book collecting and bookselling. Empty Mirror Books (useful material on terminology and identifying first editions) The Book Guide - excellent links Old Book News: more good links and software
Collecting Books and Magazines (the one-stop site with links to more or less everything) Eleanor's Books (very good links to modern children's book sites, more US than elsewhere ) The Children's Literature web guide (another useful site, Canadian, with masses of links) Fantastic Fiction (not always reliable, but does provide a basic list of books for an awful lot of authors. Use the BL or Bodley websites for more trustworthy, though harder to follow, bibliographies)
Girls' Own: the website for everyone interested in girls' bookst The Big Four Elinor M. Brent-Dyer Dorita Fairlie Bruce Eva Löfgren's site: information about Serendipity as well as biographical material Antonia Forest Sorry, no AFsociety or magazine yet. If you'd like to start one... For any information not on this website,contact Sue (AF's literary executor) Elsie Jeanette Oxenham
Other collectible British writers Enid Blyton An Unofficial Enid Blyton site Monica Edwards From the Punchbowl: website and details of magazine Lorna Hill (would someone like to set up a site devoted to her)? Cumberland News: feature article Violet Needham Malcolm Saville Malcolm Saville Centenary Website Noel Streatfeild Harriet Jordan's site (again, no magazine)
North American girls’ series books Girls' series books: checklist 19th-century girls' series fiction The Betsy-Tacy Society (Maud Hart Lovelace) Lucy Maud Montgomery (not a Montgomery website as such, but lists all relevant sites)
Publishers (reprints and new titles)
Second-hand bookshops and dealers specialising in children’s books and/or girls’ books The Children's Bookshop (Hay-on-Wye) Sarah Key (The Haunted Bookshop) Ripping Yarns (Highgate, London) Stella Books (Tintern) and Rose's Books (Hay-on-Wye) Topsy-Turvy Books It’s also worthwhile contacting these dealers, though they don’t yet have a web presence: TP Children's Bookshop,
Ilkley,
West Yorkshire The Old Children's Bookshelf, 175 Canongate ,
Royal Mile, Edinburgh Also, of course… eBay UK or eBay US (or any of the other national links)
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