Hello and welcome to WikiProject Children's Literature, a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to children's and young adult literature!

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.

Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles. Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}} Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project. Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject. References: Add references to Unreferenced BLPs. Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

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.

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.

Articles for deletion

• 24 Dec 2024 – Vampire Beach (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Theleekycauldron (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 24 Dec 2024 – The Private Blog of Joe Cowley (talk ·  · hist) was PRODed by B800h (t · c): Doesn't meet criteria for notability and appears to be primarily promotional

Templates for discussion

• 10 Dec 2024 – Template:Carter G. Woodson Book Award winners (talk ·  · hist) was TfDed by Woodensuperman (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 10 Dec 2024 – Goth (Silverwing) (talk ·  · hist) →Kenneth Oppel was RfDed by Shhhnotsoloud (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Dec 2024 – Solider with the Green Whiskers (talk ·  · hist) →Soldier with the Green Whiskers was RfDed by Sonic678 (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Dec 2024 – The Tin Solider (talk ·  · hist) →The Steadfast Tin Soldier was RfDed by Sonic678 (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

• 16 Dec 2024 – File:Tolkien's design for The Two Towers cover.jpg (talk ·  · hist) (on The Two Towers) FfDed by Joseph2302 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 19 Dec 2024 – Frank Lampard (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Chisperlear (t · c); start
• 30 Oct 2024 – The Two Towers (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start
• 13 Oct 2024 – Tabyana Ali (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (t · c); start
• 24 Sep 2024 – Wielka, większa i największa (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 27 Dec 2024 – Ugly sisters (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved to Wicked stepsisters by ThanatosApprentice (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 07 Jul 2024 – Somadeva (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Kathasaritsagara by Redtigerxyz (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 13 Dec 2024 – Horrible Science (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by Toscahydra (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Jul 2024 – List of works based on Peter Pan (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by Darrelljon (t · c); see discussion
• 04 May 2024 – List of Curious George episodes (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by 2601:1C1:8200:260:98D0:2177:BB63:E46A (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Aug 2022 – Beginner Books (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by 2601:1C1:8580:6580:59E8:C1E5:73F4:E1C (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 04 Dec 2024 – Draft:Heart Berry Bling (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Addi.hollis (t · c)
• 02 Dec 2024 – Draft:Yasmin the Painter (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
• 01 Nov 2024 – Draft:Luko Paljetak (talk ·  · hist) submitted for AfC by Mudroslov (t · c) was accepted to Luko Paljetak (talk ·  · hist) by HitroMilanese (t · c) on 22 Dec 2024

This project has a Wall of Recognised Content which is regularly updated by JL-Bot. To see the most recent wall, please click below.

Many articles on this project currently require cleanup for a number of issues:

• Please see Cleanup listing for a bot-generated list of articles on this project requiring cleanup.
• Please see Category:Children's and young adult literature articles needing infoboxes for a list of articles tagged as needing infoboxes. For more information on infoboxes, please see Templates below.

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.

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.

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.

This project uses the WP:1.0 assessment criteria to assess articles. The criteria specific to this project are listed below.

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.

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
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

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[reply]
• Mom's Cancer 00:29, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
• Space Demons, Clarkkent1234 (talk) 03:39, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Margaret Hamilton (publisher) KL852 (talk) 23:08, 3 June 2021 (UTC) KL852[reply]
• 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)[reply]
• 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)[reply]
• 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)[reply]

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.

If you are interested in promoting this project, please visit the Outreach department.

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}}

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.

The following category tree shows categories of articles within the scope of this WikiProject.

The following category shows stub-class articles within the scope of this WikiProject.

This Project currently has one task force:

• CHERUB and Henderson's Boys 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a list of useful pages which are outside of this project, but may still be useful to project participants.

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.

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

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.

• Custom Google Search Engine for information on books and authors