Book collecting
Wikipedia: Book Collecting
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)
Children’s books: general
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’ school stories
The Big Four
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Friends of the Chalet School
The New Chalet Club
The Chaletian Bulletin Board
Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Eva Löfgren's site: information about Serendipity as well as biographical material
Antonia Forest
Trennels - Live Journal forum
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
The Elsie J. Oxenham Society
Other collectible British writers
Enid Blyton
The Enid Blyton Society
Monica Edwards
The Monica Edwards Website
Lorna Hill
Lorna Hill blogspot
Violet Needham
Violet Needham Society
Malcolm Saville
The Malcolm Saville Society
Malcolm Saville Centenary Website
Noel Streatfeild
Harriet Jordan's site
North American girls’ series books
Girls' series books: checklist
19th-century girls' series fiction
The Betsy-Tacy Society (Maud Hart Lovelace)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Copyright libraries
Bodleian Library catalogue
British Library catalogue
National Library of Scotland
Cambridge University Library
Trinity College, Dublin
Library of Congress
National Library of Australia
National Library of Canada
Publishers (reprints and new titles)
Bettany Press
Books to Treasure
The Elsie J. Oxenham Society (EJO reprints)
Fidra Books
Girls Gone By Publishing
Greyladies Books
Longwater Books (Pamela Brown reprints)
Margin Notes Books
Second-hand bookshops and dealers specialising in children’s books and/or girls’ books
Badger Books
Jane Badger Books (Pony books)
Gill Bilski
The Children's Bookshop (Hay-on-Wye)
Encore Books
Sarah Key (The Haunted Bookshop)
Peakirk Books
Ripping Yarns
David Schutte
Stella Books (Tintern) and Rose's Books (Hay-on-Wye)
Topsy-Turvy Books
Also, of course…
ABE (Advanced Book Exchange)
Amazon UK
Amazon US
eBay UK or eBay US (or any of the other national links)
Bookfinder