Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature
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Hello and welcome to WikiProject Children's Literature, a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to children's and young adult literature!
Project scope
[edit]This project is dedicated to improving the quality of coverage of children's and young adult literature on Wikipedia. The main aims of this WikiProject are to:
- Improve the overall quality of articles relating to children's and young adult literature, including books, authors, and scholarship
- Identify those articles which need to be created, merged, or deleted
- Improve the categorization of these articles
- Define easily maintainable, usable, and well-documented templates and infoboxes related to this WikiProject
- Improve source citation in all these articles
- Propose criteria for (author, book, etc.) list creation and inclusion
- Expand stub articles relating to children's literature
- Perform cleanup on articles
The topics covered by this WikiProject include any articles about children's or young adult books, magazines, short stories, poetry or fictional elements; authors, illustrators and publishers of children's and young adult books; awards for children's and young adult books; and articles relating to the scholarship of children's and young adult literature. Notable exceptions to this scope include redirect pages, and articles about adaptations of children's literature in a non-literary medium, such as musicals and films.
Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks.
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You can also help with any of the following project tasks:
- Promote the project
- Join this project! Add yourself to the list, and add the userbox to your page, to advertise the project to people who happen to pass by.
- Invite people to the project – drop a note on the user talk page of editors working on Children's literature topics who aren't project members.
- Consider promoting the project via the Wikipedia Signpost WikiProject desk.
- Improve the project
- Update the project pages, archive clutter, and make use of the latest automation available
- Consult the WikiProject Guide for ideas
- Come up with new ones
- Use the project
- Create a new article.
- Expand some of the articles (check out Category:Children's literature stubs or some of its subcategories), always respecting Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View Policy. Also, check the Wikipedia: Manual of Style.
- Add references to articles which need referencing improving. Biographies of living persons are a particular priority.
- Assess some of the Unassessed children and young adult literature articles, using the criteria at Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Assessment. Update the project banner on the relevant talk page.
- You can look at the cleanup listing to see what needs doing.
- Check the talk page for requests for help.
- Check the to do list at WP:WikiProject Children's literature/task box
- You can look at the project's popular pages list to identify particularly high-profile articles that could be improved.
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Project Discussion
[edit]Please visit the Project Discussion page to join the discussion of new ideas about project policy and organisation. Currently ongoing discussions are:
- Categories and project scope - A discussion of project scope as it relates to several categories currently tagged for the project.
- Project scope - A more detailed discussion of specific aspets of the project scope.
- Categories and sub-categories - WP:DUPCAT - A discussion of the application of WP:DUPCAT to this project.
- Job Centre - A suggestion to create a job centre for the project similar to WP:WikiProject Novels/JobCentre.
Article updates
[edit]Alerts
[edit]Did you know
- 20 Aug 2024 – The Book of Virtues (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Slgrandson (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Aug 2024 – Hammond's Hard Lines (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Slgrandson (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 26 Aug 2024 – High Survival (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Significa liberdade (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 26 Aug 2024 – Dangerous Games (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Significa liberdade (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 26 Aug 2024 – Shock Waves (novel) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Significa liberdade (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 23 Aug 2024 – List of Pokémon books (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 22 Aug 2024 – Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 22 Aug 2024 – List of villains in Willard Price's Adventure series (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jontesta (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
Redirects for discussion
- 21 Aug 2024 – Trayaurus (talk · edit · hist) →Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal was RfDed by I am RedoStone (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Aug 2024 – Dr. Trayaurus (talk · edit · hist) →Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal was RfDed by I am RedoStone (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Jul 2024 – Bionic Bunny (talk · edit · hist) →List of Arthur characters#TV stars and merchandise was RfDed by Dcljr (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 03 Aug 2024 – The Fellowship of the Ring (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion
Peer reviews
- 25 Aug 2024 – Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by SchroCat (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 11 Aug 2024 – The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to The Water-Babies by Zacwill (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 24 Jul 2024 – The Dragon's Tooth (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ashtown Burials by WestRiding24 (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jul 2024 – Empire of Bones (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ashtown Burials by WestRiding24 (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jul 2024 – The Drowned Vault (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ashtown Burials by WestRiding24 (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jul 2024 – Somadeva (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Kathasaritsagara by Redtigerxyz (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Jul 2024 – American Cheerleader (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Varsity Spirit by 24.214.60.151 (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Jun 2024 – The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to The Song of the Lioness by Boleyn (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 12 Jul 2024 – List of works based on Peter Pan (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Darrelljon (t · c); see discussion
- 04 May 2024 – List of Curious George episodes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 2601:1C1:8200:260:98D0:2177:BB63:E46A (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Nov 2023 – John Barrowman (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by OlifanofmrTennant (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Aug 2022 – Beginner Books (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 2601:1C1:8580:6580:59E8:C1E5:73F4:E1C (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 12 Aug 2024 – Draft:Paul Linnet (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DCM2015 (t · c)
- 01 May 2024 – Draft:Wranglestone (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Slgrandson (t · c) was accepted to Wranglestone (talk · edit · hist) by Significa liberdade (t · c) on 27 Aug 2024
Recognised content
[edit]This project has a Wall of Recognised Content which is regularly updated by JL-Bot. To see the most recent wall, please click below.
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Featured articles
[edit]Chinua Achebe
Argosy (magazine)
Bronwyn Bancroft
Enid Blyton
The Coral Island
Edmund Evans
Ian Fleming
The Fox and the Hound (novel)
Anne Frank
The Guardian of Education
The Hardy Boys
The Hunger Games (novel)
Lad, A Dog
Ursula K. Le Guin
Julianne Moore
Baron Munchausen
The Phantom Tollbooth
Proserpine (play)
Talbot Baines Reed
Sally Ride
J. K. Rowling
Scoops (magazine)
Mary Martha Sherwood
The Story of Miss Moppet
Tom Swift
To Kill a Mockingbird
J. R. R. Tolkien
When Megan Went Away
A Wizard of Earthsea
Mary Wollstonecraft
Featured lists
[edit]Good articles
[edit]A. L. Burt
The Adventures of Abdi
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Julia Alvarez
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Anti-Princess Series and Anti-Hero Series
Anya's Ghost
Artemis Fowl (novel)
As I was going by Charing Cross
Margaret Atwood
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Bilbo Baggins
Balin (Middle-earth)
A Ball for Daisy
Bambi, a Life in the Woods
Derrick Barnes (author)
John Barrowman
John Bauer (illustrator)
Pauline Baynes
Bear Came Along
Beorn
Big Cat, Little Cat
A Big Mooncake for Little Star
Birdsong (picture book)
Black and White (picture book)
Brisingr
The Cat in the Hat
Catching Fire
Charles III
Chasing Vermeer
Nathan Chen
The Children of Húrin
Children of Blood and Bone
Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
Ion Creangă
Creekfinding
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Crown Duel
Dangerous Girls
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
Kate DiCamillo
A Different Pond
Divergent (novel)
Don't Forget the Bacon!
Doraemon
Down a Dark Hall
The Dragon and the Doctor
Eldest
Elrond
Ender's Game
The English Roses
Eragon
Fablehaven (novel)
The Fate of Fausto
Finding Winnie
Nadia Fink
First Light (Stead novel)
Flamer (novel)
Kathleen Freeman (classicist)
Further Adventures of Lad
Gandalf
A Gift of Magic
Gifts (novel)
Gnomes (book)
Going Down Home with Daddy
Gollum
Goosebumps
Patricia Grace
Grand Canyon (book)
Green Eggs and Ham
John Green
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
Gregor the Overlander
John Gregorson Campbell
The Gruffalo
PJ Haarsma
The Hammer of Thor
Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Hate U Give
The Haunted Mask
Hello Lighthouse
The Hidden Oracle
Historien om någon
The History of the Fairchild Family
The Hobbit
Horton Hatches the Egg
The House of Hades
Humpty Dumpty
Zach Hyman
Hymns for the Amusement of Children
I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!
Idol × Warrior Miracle Tunes!
Into the Wild (novel)
Jack and Jill
Tove Jansson
Julián Is a Mermaid
The Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Elvy Kalep
Killing Mr. Griffin
Abigail Larson
The Last Dog on Earth
Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series
The Lightning Thief
Astrid Lindgren
The Lion & the Mouse
Little Eva: The Flower of the South
Locked in Time
Locomotive (book)
Lollipop Power
London Bridge Is Falling Down
The Lord of the Rings
Lots of Mommies
Lotsa de Casha
Love Among the Walnuts
Lucky and Squash
Madonna
Maiden & Princess
Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Maurice (Shelley)
Stephenie Meyer
Midas (Shelley play)
Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet
Mr. Peabody's Apples
Mockingjay
Moonrise (novel)
Mounseer Nongtongpaw
New Kid
Clara Ng
Not in Front of the Children
The Number Devil
Obernewtyn (novel)
One Day at HorrorLand
Orca's Song
Clara Elsene Peck
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Prince and the Dressmaker
Private Peaceful
The Quest Begins
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Ramandu's daughter
James Whitcomb Riley
Ring a Ring o' Roses
The Rough Patch (book)
Brandon Sanderson
Scary Stories for Young Foxes
The Sea of Monsters
The Secret River (Rawlings book)
Seekers (novel series)
Septimus Heap
Jane Severance
Idries Shah
Shiloh (Naylor novel)
Shrek!
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Sir Thursday
Mama's Sleeping Scarf
Christopher Smart
Smaug
Coriolanus Snow
The Son of Neptune
Stellaluna
E. C. Stoner
The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
Stranger with My Face
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Thank You, Omu!
That's Not My... (book series)
This is Not My Hat
Thorin Oakenshield
Thranduil
The Titan's Curse
Nino Tkeshelashvili
The Tombs of Atuan
Translating The Lord of the Rings
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
John R. Tunis
Tunnels (novel)
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
Twilight (novel series)
Voices (Le Guin novel)
Watership Down
We Are Water Protectors
When Marnie Was There (novel)
When You Reach Me
Oscar Wilde
Henry Winkler
Wolf: The Journey Home
Wolf in the Snow
X: A Fabulous Child's Story
Yakov and the Seven Thieves
Yellow Star (novel)
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Good article nominees
[edit]Did you know? articles
[edit]13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
A. L. Burt
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
Ain't Burned All the Bright
Alex (novel series)
Sue Alexander
Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
All Thirteen
All the Wrong Questions
Marjorie Hill Allee
Alligator Pie
Laurence Alma-Tadema
Alphabet book
Ndyakira Amooti
Hans Christian Andersen
Jane Andrews (author)
Anti-Princess Series and Anti-Hero Series
Zamfir Arbore
Are U 4 Real?
Mitzura Arghezi
Bad News for Outlaws
Duncan Ball
Bambi, a Life in the Woods
Milko Bambič
Ban This Book
Bronwyn Bancroft
Karin Bang
Banner in the Sky
Bard the Bowman
Barna Hedenhös
Derrick Barnes (author)
Nicolae Constantin Batzaria
John Bauer (illustrator)
Harry Neal Baum
Tracy Beaker
Barbara Bel Geddes
Vicars Bell
The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree
Gunilla Bergström
Paul Biegel
The Big Honey Hunt
Birdsong (picture book)
Caroline Birley
Becky Birtha
Nancy Blackett
Enid Blyton
Kirsten Boie
The Book of Time (novel series)
Boom Town (book)
Bosom Friends affair
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Luther D. Bradley
Berit Brænne
Toril Brekke
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Lilian Brøgger
Edwy Searles Brooks
Mormarevi Brothers
Broučci
Abbie Farwell Brown
Anthony Browne (author)
The Brownies' Book
Mary Grant Bruce
Bruce T. Halle Library
Daniel Brustlein
Mark Burgess (children's author)
May Byron
Callaway Arts & Entertainment
Caloian
Lucy Lyttelton Cameron
The Care and Keeping of You
Casper the Commuting Cat
Vladimir Cavarnali
Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys
Joseph Chaikov
Elizabeth Williams Champney
Charles III
Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction
Children's Literature Association
Children's book illustration
Iordan Chimet
Chinese Fables and Folk Stories
Kay Chorao
Chromoxylography
Clockwork (novel)
Computer Engineer Barbie
Mary Cooper (publisher)
Julia Corner
Thomas Crane (1843–1903)
Ion Creangă
The Creation of the Violin
Creekfinding
Croatian Tales of Long Ago
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Crown Duel
Curious George (video game)
Petras Cvirka
Bat-Sheva Dagan
Lois Darling
Louis Darling
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
The Daydreamer (novel)
Mary De Morgan
Dean & Son
Dear Socks, Dear Buddy
Noa Denmon
Kate DiCamillo
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday?
Berlie Doherty
Don't Forget the Bacon!
Don't Look Behind You
Helen Dore Boylston
The Dragon and the Doctor
Tonke Dragt
Duck, Death and the Tulip
Joyce Dunbar
Polly Dunbar
Jeanette Eaton
Wolf Erlbruch
Ernie's Work of Art
Edmund Evans
Everything on a Waffle
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Fablehaven (novel)
Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection.
Oluf Falck-Ytter
Edwina Hume Fallis
Charles Buckles Falls
Family Moving Day
Fancy Nancy
The Fate of Fausto
The Father Christmas Letters
Father Goose: His Book
Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines
Nadia Fink
Firestar's Quest
First News
Sheree Fitch
Five Go Off to Camp
Alan Fletcher (graphic designer)
Thomas Fluharty
Bernette Ford
Genevieve Foster
The Fox and the Hound (novel)
Josette Frank
Antonio Frasconi
Kathleen Freeman (classicist)
Frog and the Birdsong
Further Adventures of Lad
Frances Dana Barker Gage
Gay Kids
George M. Hill Company
Gifts (novel)
Phoebe Gilman
Fred Gipson
Girl Online
Gnomes (book)
Go the Fuck to Sleep
Michaela Goade
Going Down Home with Daddy
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Goodnight Mister Tom
Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales
Patricia Grace
Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402
Mary Grannan
The Great Migration: Journey to the North
John Green
Eloise Greenfield
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
John Gregorson Campbell
Griffith W. Griffith
The Gruffalo
Joaquín Gutiérrez
PJ Haarsma
The Hammer of Thor
Harap Alb
Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark
John Harris (publisher)
Mette Ivie Harrison
Gertrude Hart
Ebba Haslund
Marie Hassenpflug
The Hate U Give
Peter Havard-Williams
Finn Havrevold
Mairi Hedderwick
Hero (novel)
Velino Herrera
Agnes Hewes
S. E. Hinton bibliography
Histoires ou contes du temps passé
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
The History of Little Henry and his Bearer
The History of the Fairchild Family
Paul Oskar Höcker
Marni Hodgkin
Barbara Holland
Elling Holst
Hoot (novel)
Wim Hora Adema
Horse Museum (Dr. Seuss)
Hot House Flowers
The Hotspur
Huang Qingyun
Shirley Hughes
Hymns for the Amusement of Children
I Don't Want to Blow You Up!
I Like Pumpkins
Ice Quake (novel)
The Ickabog
If You Could Be Mine
Incident at Hawk's Hill
Inez Haynes Irwin
Aleksandra Ishimova
It's Just a Plant
It's So Amazing!
Maria Elizabetha Jacson
Tove Jansson
Java Ho!
The Jew Among Thorns
John Martin's Book
Carrie Jones (author)
Le Journal de Mickey
Julián Is a Mermaid
Juma and the Magic Jinn
Just David
May Justus
Kaa's Hunting
Elvy Kalep
Kane/Miller
Katie Morag
Illana Katz
Kaytek the Wizard
Gerald Kelley
Key Words Reading Scheme
Mahmona Khan
Margaret King
King Matt the First
King & King
Hakushū Kitahara
Jon Klassen
Clayton Knight
Maria Kownacka
Kristian Kristiansen (writer)
Joseph Krumgold
İsmet Kür
Per Kvist
Lad, A Dog
Lamb Chop (puppet)
The Land I Lost
Poul Lange
Abigail Larson
Laureate na nÓg
Ursula K. Le Guin
Blair Lent
Lessons for Children
Let My Babies Go!
Let's Talk About It (book)
Let the Children March
Tamara Levitt
Myron Levoy
Lewis Carroll: A Biography
Astrid Lindgren
The Littlest Angel
Lollipop Power
Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Lots of Mommies
Love Among the Walnuts
Christa Ludwig (writer)
Carrie Mac
Patricia MacLachlan
Maiden & Princess
Leela Majumdar
Mahnaz Malik
Corinne Malvern
Christopher Manson
Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President
John Marshall (publisher)
Maurice (Shelley)
Walt McDougall
Janet McNeill
Melanie's Marvelous Measles
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Stephenie Meyer
Midas (Shelley play)
The Midnight Zoo
Miracle's Boys (novel)
Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet
Louis Moe
Sven Moren
Arlene Mosel
The Most Incredible Thing
The Mousehole Cat
Mr. Monster
Doris Mühringer
Baron Munchausen
Margrethe Munthe
Gordon Murray (puppeteer)
Fănuș Neagu
Harry B. Neilson
New Fairy Tales. First Volume
Clare Turlay Newberry
Mette Newth
Philip Newth
Clara Ng
A Night in Terror Tower
Cécile Nobrega
Nordy Bank (novel)
Novelist
Johanna Bugge Olsen
One Day at HorrorLand
Orca's Song
Albert Paine
The Paperboy (children's book)
The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Howard Pease
Charlotte Pence Bond
Pigeon Post
A Place Inside of Me
Pluk van de Petteflet
Policeman Bluejay
Politics of Harry Potter
Elise Primavera
Primer with Various Instructions
The Prince and the Dressmaker
Princess Academy: Palace of Stone
Private Peaceful
Puss in Boots
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Robert Quackenbush
Quang Nhuong Huynh
The Queen of Hearts (poem)
The Rabbits' Wedding
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Railsea
Korrie Layun Rampan
Seymour Reit
Rewards and Fairies
Jason Reynolds
James Whitcomb Riley
Ruth Riley
The Road from Home
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Glen Rounds
Runa ABC
Mihail Sadoveanu
Profira Sadoveanu
Lazăr Șăineanu
Halvor J. Sandsdalen
Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Annie M.G. Schmidt
The School for Good and Evil (film)
The School for Good and Evil (novel)
Bill Scott (author)
Gabriel Scott
William Matthew Scott
The Secret River (Rawlings book)
See You in the Cosmos
Ondřej Sekora
The Sesame Street Dictionary
Set in Stone (novel)
The Seven Lady Godivas
Jane Severance
Bobby Shafto
Shrek!
Sie Po Giok
Philip Slier
Christopher Smart
Coriolanus Snow
The Snowman (fairy tale)
The Softwire
Christina Soontornvat
John George Sowerby
Millicent Sowerby
Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes
Rebecca Stead
Dimitrie Stelaru
Stellaluna
E. C. Stoner
The Story of a Bad Boy
Margareta Suber
Harald Sverdrup (writer)
The Tale of Mr. Tod
A Tale of Magic...
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
Eugen Taru
Sandra Tayler
Teddy Tail
Gustaf Tenggren
The Highfield Mole
The Wicked Prince
Sherry Thomas
Colin Thompson (writer)
Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker
Anna Eliot Ticknor
Tiger Flowers (book)
Timeline (picture book)
Ștefan Tita
Titanic 2020: Cannibal City
Titanic 2020
Nino Tkeshelashvili
Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Tom Playfair
Alexandru Toma
The Tombs of Atuan
Toy book
Translating The Lord of the Rings
Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal
The Treatise (Walter of Bibbesworth)
The Tree of Seasons
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Jagoda Truhelka
Tu Books
John R. Tunis
Michael O. Tunnell
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
Two Hundred Rabbits
Uncle Daddy
Under the Window
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Voices (Le Guin novel)
Chaim Walder
Ann Waldron
A Walk to Remember (novel)
Elizabeth Rebecca Ward
Ida Waugh
Wayward Son (novel)
We Are Water Protectors
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Jane Weinberger
When Marnie Was There (novel)
When Megan Went Away
Fred Whishaw
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Whose Boat Is This Boat?
Wicked Witch of the West
Wicked fairy (Sleeping Beauty)
Wildwood (novel)
Mona Williams (writer, born 1943)
Eric Wilson (author)
Winnie ille Pu
Winter Holiday (novel)
A Wish in the Dark
A Wizard of Earthsea
Laurie Wolf
Wolf: The Journey Home
Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft
The Wolves in the Walls
Wombat Divine
Lawson Wood
Wordless Book
John Worsley (artist)
Wroniec (book)
X: A Fabulous Child's Story
Yang Hongying
Elizabeth Yates (writer)
Yellow Star (novel)
Arthur Yorinks
Katka Zupančič
Dikken Zwilgmeyer
Articles needing cleanup
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Assessment
[edit]Welcome to the assessment department of the Children's Literature WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality and importance of Wikipedia's children's and young-adult literature related articles through the WP:1.0 program.
Assessing articles
[edit]Any user can add articles to this WikiProject by adding {{WikiProject Children's literature}} to the article's talk page. This should only be done if the article relates directly to the project scope, and if you find any articles which seem to be incorrectly tagged then they can be delisted by removing the project template from the talk page.
Articles are assessed through the |class= and |importance= parameters in their {{WikiProject Children's literature}} project template. Class is used to denote the quality of the article, and importance to denote its importance to WikiProject Children's Literature. The possible values for each of these can be found in Assessment Criteria below. Often when articles are first tagged they will not be assessed on these qualities, but they will automatically be added to the project and should be assessed shortly, allowing for delay due to backlog.
Any user can assess articles for this project, even if they are not a member. However, some users prefer an outsider's opinion on articles they are closely involved in, and you can request an assessment from project members by adding the article to the list of Assessment requests below. These will be dealt with by a number of editors; if you would prefer one particular individual for some reason, it may be better to contact them through their talk page.
Ratings are often subjective and will change over time as the article develops. If you have any problems with the ratings system, you may wish to leave a message at the project talk page or the article discussion page.
Department tasks
[edit]If you want to help the assessment department, please contribute to any of the following tasks:
- Assessing unassessed quality articles.
- Assessing unassessed importance articles.
- Completing requested assessments.
- Double-checking existing assessments. Editors do not always remember to update an article's class after improving it, and the criteria for both importance and quality change over time. Ideally, articles should have their assessments checked at least once a year.
Assessment Criteria
[edit]This project uses the WP:1.0 assessment criteria to assess articles. The criteria specific to this project are listed below.
Quality scale
[edit]This WikiProject uses the WP:1.0 quality scale to assess its articles. If you feel any article is incorrectly assessed, you can either change it yourself, selecting the correct article class from the table below, or request an assessment from this department for a more objective viewpoint.
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:
A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
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The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
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The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history). |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
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The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019) |
B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Psychology (as of January 2024) |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | Wing (as of June 2018) |
Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Ball (as of September 2014) |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of literary movements |
Importance scale
[edit]The criteria for rating importance are intended to give a probable indication of the relevance of each article to this particular project and the likelihood of the topic's inclusion in a traditional encyclopedia. Importance is intended to be a neutral, international value which is not affected by editor demographics or regional biases, but some subjectivity is always present. If you do not agree with an article's importance rating, you may wish to contact the user who assessed the article, or begin a discussion of that article at the Article Discussion page.
Label | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | Subject is a "core" topic for children's literature and is highly significant to a general audience. | Dr. Seuss Newbery Medal |
High | Subject is very notable or significant within the field of children's literature and has some significance to a general audience. | Curious George Judy Blume |
Mid | Subject is notable or significant within the field of children's literature (or to a historian), but not necessarily outside it. | Walk Two Moons Quentin Blake |
Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of children's literature, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of a notable author or other notable subject. | Absolutely Normal Chaos Anthea Bell |
Assessment requests
[edit]If you have made significant changes to an article on this project and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below along with your signature and any comments you wish to leave. This is not required, and you may assess the article for yourself, but any articles here should soon receive attention from a project member, who may also leave comments on the article's talk page. If you assess an article on this list, please use <s> and </s> to strike it through so that other editors do not waste time going there. Assessed articles will be removed periodically.
Please do not place articles which you believe to be Good Article or Featured Article class on this list. These have their own nomination procedures, which can be found at Good Article nominations and Featured Article nominations.
Please do not place articles which have not yet received assessments on this list. Any unassessed article with the project tag will automatically be categorised as unassessed and will be dealt with as soon as possible. There may be a short delay due to backlog.
- King & King R.dever (talk) 00:38, 1 May 2020 (UTC) R.dever
- Mom's Cancer 00:29, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
- Space Demons, Clarkkent1234 (talk) 03:39, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
- Margaret Hamilton (publisher) KL852 (talk) 23:08, 3 June 2021 (UTC) KL852
- The Three Doors I have expanded the article quite a bit, and it would be greatly appreciated if someone could reassess it, thank you. Huey117 (talk) 15:39, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
- Keeper of the Lost Cities This page has gone through quite a few changes, just wanted to have it reassessed, if possible. PyrokineticFintan (talk) 21:24, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, This page has not been assessed in 12 years, and quite a few edits have been made, PyrokineticFintan (talk) 19:51, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
Current article statistics
[edit]Children and young adult literature articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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4 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 30 | ||
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2 | 7 | 1 | 10 | |||
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9 | 33 | 80 | 94 | 216 | ||
B | 25 | 74 | 179 | 227 | 9 | 514 | |
C | 24 | 172 | 797 | 1,515 | 23 | 2,531 | |
Start | 18 | 272 | 1,999 | 5,506 | 49 | 7,844 | |
Stub | 1 | 83 | 668 | 4,846 | 23 | 5,621 | |
List | 3 | 8 | 85 | 173 | 3 | 272 | |
Category | 1 | 1 | 1,231 | 1,233 | |||
Disambig | 1 | 4 | 71 | 76 | |||
File | 1 | 2,705 | 2,706 | ||||
Portal | 41 | 41 | |||||
Project | 1 | 45 | 46 | ||||
Template | 2 | 329 | 331 | ||||
NA | 1 | 4 | 76 | 939 | 838 | 1,858 | |
Other | 1 | 2 | 13 | 16 | |||
Assessed | 87 | 657 | 3,904 | 13,317 | 5,273 | 107 | 23,345 |
Unassessed | 3 | 26 | 29 | ||||
Total | 87 | 657 | 3,904 | 13,320 | 5,273 | 133 | 23,374 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 85,044 | Ω = 5.08 |
Collaboration
[edit]Welcome to the collaboration department of the Children's Literature WikiProject! This department is intended to bring attention to articles of high importance to the project which are currently of a low quality. The department will promote these articles, and will regularly choose one of them which all project members are asked to contribute to as much as they feel able.
The current Collaboration Article is Curious George (book). Please visit this article and contribute to it in any way you can.
At the beginning of the Collaboration, it was rated as High importance and Stub class. So far it has improved to Stub class.
If you wish to be updated about the collaboration articles for this WikiProject, please use {{WP:CHL COLLAB}}.
If you wish to nominate or discuss future Collaboration Articles, please visit the department page.
Outreach
[edit]If you are interested in promoting this project, please visit the Outreach department.
Participants
[edit]This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping with this project, please, feel free to join by clicking the link below, and adding your name at the bottom of the list using {{User|Your User Name}}, with an optional comment.
If you join this project, please add this template to your user page: {{User WikiProject Children's literature}}
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You don't need to be actively writing articles to be a participant. Please to add your name to the list below. Please use {{User}} instead of four tildes ~~~~. You may add a comment if you wish.
Editors who make no edits to Wikipedia at all in six months will be presumed retired. Editors can always join the list again when they return to Wikipedia.
Active members
[edit]The following members are currently active on this WikiProject.
- antlersantlers (talk · contribs) - I like cleaning up tables and making awards pages work well.
- Erica Kecskemety (talk · contribs) - I edit exsisting childrens books and creating new articles about them.
- Barkeep49 (talk · contribs) – I work on assessment and creating new pages around ALA award winners.
- Ben79487 (talk · contribs) – I like to work on improving the quality of articles.
- BindiS (talk · contribs) - Former librarian, interested in Australian children's literature
- Cathyolibrarian (talk · contribs)
- CobaltSteel (talk · contribs) – I write articles on children's literature artists/illustrators.
- Coolabahapple (talk · contribs)
- Classicfilms (talk · contribs)
- Dougles.Green (talk · contribs)
- Fearstreetsaga (talk · contribs) - I'm mostly interested in editing horror and thriller novel articles.
- Gary D Robson (talk · contribs) - Interested mostly in children's nonfiction, especially science and nature
- Huey117 (talk · contribs) - I'm interested in expanding stubs and creating new articles
- Kejood (talk · contribs)
- LaurenElizabeth243 (talk · contribs) - I am planning to work in editing/publishing.
- Linguistical (talk · contribs)
- MariAdkins (talk · contribs) + professional copy editor and published author
- MarkZusab (talk · contribs)
- Merenby (talk · contribs) - Interested in expanding stub articles on children's and young adult fiction from the pre-Harry Potter era.
- Mvolz (talk · contribs)
- Rapunzel-bellflower (talk · contribs)
- ReaderofthePack (talk · contribs)
- Robina Fox (talk · contribs)
- Rtkat3 (talk · contribs)
- Rul Joules (talk · contribs)
- Sabiona (talk · contribs)
- Tacyarg (talk · contribs)
- Voceditenore (talk · contribs)
- Azbookchick (talk · contribs) - professional librarian, formerly in children's services now in teen services, I can cover whatever.
- p64 (talk · contribs)
- 2ReinreB2 (talk · contribs)
- LakesideMiners (talk · contribs)- I enjoy children’s literature.
- ThyHero (talk · contribs)- I enjoy making anchors and links to needing pages.
- Scrooge200 (talk · contribs) - I aim to fix up the Diary of a Wimpy Kid articles.
- Spacecat711 (talk · contribs)
- Nicolet1327 (talk · contribs)
- Quercusechinus (talk · contribs)
- Isabelle Belato (talk · contribs)
- Chribue (talk · contribs)
- Significa liberdade (talk · contribs) - I follow ALA awards/challenges to create book pages, as well as pages for authors/books representing systemically marginalized populations
- ScribblingTiresias (talk · contribs) - children's author, I specialize in British kids' lit and like to de-stub articles.
- Sro23 (talk · contribs) - I create stubs on authors
- JohnRussell (talk · contribs)
- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk · contribs)
- Angelcake57 (talk · contribs)
- IcyTheApple (talk · contribs) - For the world's children!
- Chilitedit (talk · contribs) Children's Lit post grad here to help
- Jameela P. (talk · contribs)
Inactive members
[edit]The following users may still be active on this WikiProject but have not responded to recent roll calls.
Categories
[edit]The following category tree shows categories of articles within the scope of this WikiProject.
Stub completion
[edit]The following category shows stub-class articles within the scope of this WikiProject.
Related projects
[edit]Task forces
[edit]This Project currently has one task force:
The following Children's Literature task forces are currently run by WikiProject Novels:
- Chronicles of Narnia task force
- His Dark Materials task force
- Lemony Snicket task force
- Rick Riordan task force
- Roald Dahl task force
- Twilight task force
Other WikiProjects
[edit]This WikiProject is a child project of WikiProjects Literature, Books, and Novels, and a sister project of WikiProjects Artemis Fowl, Fablehaven, Harry Potter, Redwall, and Warriors.
Templates
[edit]Many templates are used by articles in this project. Some of the most common are listed below, but a more complete list can be found in Category:Template-Class children and young adult literature articles.
Project templates
[edit]This project maintains several templates for use in a variety of tasks:
- To add a page to this project, please add the project banner to its talk page using {{WikiProject Children's literature}} and fill in the relevant assessment information as listed on the template's documentation page.
- To link a page to the portal Portal:Children and Young Adult Literature, place
{{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}}
in the See also section. - To identify a user as a participant of this project, place {{user WikiProject Children's literature}} on their userpage.
- To welcome new participants to the project, place {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Welcome}} on their talkpage. Please be sure to substitute.
Common article templates
[edit]Stub sorting templates are used on Stub-class articles to specify the topic they are based on. Stub sorting templates are maintained by WikiProject Stub Sorting and a full list can be found at WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. Some of the most common stub types on this project are:
- {{Child-lit-stub}} for any children's literature stub article.
- {{Child-book-stub}} for stub articles about children's books.
- {{Child-picture-book-stub}} for stub articles about children's picture books.
- {{US-child-writer-stub}} for stub articles about children's authors from the United States.
- {{UK-child-writer-stub}} for stub articles about children's authors from the United Kingdom.
Infoboxes are used to give a summary of the main features article's topic. They generally consist of a list of features which the article might have, and as many of these features as possible should be specified, although many can be left out if they are not known. Infoboxes are maintained by WikiProject Infoboxes, and help using them can be found on the Manual of Style and help page about them, in addition to on each template's documentation page. A variety of infoboxes are available depending upon the subject of the article in question. A full list is available in Category:Infobox templates, but some commonly used infoboxes on this project are:
- {{Infobox book}} for articles about books.
- {{Infobox book series}} for articles about book series.
- {{Infobox writer}} for articles about writers.
- {{Infobox character}} for articles about fictional characters.
- {{Infobox publisher}} for articles about publishers.
Navigation boxes are used to ease navigation between a group of articles on the same topic. There are many navigation boxes used by this project, which generally group articles by some shared characteristic, for example {{Harry Potter}}, grouping by series, or {{American Library Association}}, grouping by organisation.
Resources
[edit]This is a list of useful pages which are outside of this project, but may still be useful to project participants.
Notability
[edit]All articles in this project should meet the notability guidelines relevant to their subject. Please read these guidelines carefully before creating any new articles. All articles should also meet general Wikipedia guidelines such as a neutral point of view, verifiability and no original research before being created. Any articles about living persons must also meet the criteria listed at Biography of Living Persons.
Authors should meet the notability criteria for creative professionals. Authors are generally notable if:
- The person has received a notable award or honor, or has been often nominated for one.
- The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in their specific field.
- The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by their peers or successors.
- The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.
- The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
- The person's work either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums, or had works in many significant libraries.
Books should meet the criteria for book notability. Books are generally notable if:
- The book has been the subject of multiple published works, including books, films and newspaper articles, whose sources are independent of the book and its self-interested parties. Some of these works should contain sufficient critical commentary to allow the article to grow past a simple plot summary.
- The book has won a major literary award.
- The book has been considered by reliable sources to have made a significant contribution to any other notable subject, such as a motion picture, art form, event or political or religious movement.
- The book is frequently taught at a large number of educational institutions.
- The book's author is so historically significant that any of their written works may be considered notable.
Individual articles on characters, locations, and other elements of a work of fiction are subject to Wikipedia's fictional elements notability guidelines — be aware of these guidelines before creating articles. Generally, these elements should be part of a significant work of fiction, and should have received significant coverage outside of this work of fiction.
Article improvement
[edit]Some helpful guides about writing articles in general may be:
- Getting started
- How to write a great article
- The perfect article
- Article assessment
- How to upload images
One of the most difficult parts of article writing to achieve is the citation of reliable sources:
- Verifiability of sources
- How to cite sources
- Citing sources using templates
- Quick reference citation templates
- Children's sources questionable on reliability for adult-level content (essay)
For nominating articles to good article status:
- Good article criteria
- Guide for nominating good articles
- Good article review cheatsheet
- Good article nominations
For nominating articles to featured article status:
- Feature article criteria
- The differences between good and featured articles
- How to satisfy Criterion 1a
Style
[edit]All articles should conform to the relevant Wikipedia style guides. Some helpful resources include:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Style guidelines – a layout guide maintained by WikiProject Novels specifically for articles about novels.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style – a collection of basic rules about all Wikipedia articles.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) – a collection of rules for articles about fiction.
- Wikipedia:Layout – a guide to the basics of article structure.
- Wikipedia:Lead section – a guide to the introductionary paragraph at the beginning of an article.