What is A Children's Literature Gathering? - The Gathering is a collection of web sites devoted to stories and books for young people. The format for this Gathering is what's known as a web ring. A web-ring is a collection of sites sharing a similar theme, linked in an electronic circle. You are invited to visit and explore each of the sites in the ring by clicking "next" at each site. You will eventually arrive back at your starting point. During your journey, you are likely to encounter adventure, humor, diversity, and knowledge. We have done our best to try to make certain there are no unpleasant dragons lurking in the links.

Who may join A Children's Literature Gathering? - Web sites devoted to children's books, and sites devoted to high quality original children's stories are welcome to join this Gathering. Preference will be given to sites which include original content relating to children's books.

That said, the following types of sites would likely be considered inappropriate for inclusion:

• Sites which consist only of lists of books for sale.
  (Exception: Bookseller's sites which feature detailed summaries of children's books and other useful information are welcome, however.)

• Sites consisting solely of links to other sites.
  (Exception: Especially comprehensive and/or annotated lists.)

• Sites whose content is aimed solely at very young children, and sites limited to original writing by children.

• Sites focusing exclusively on writing/publishing instructions for aspiring children's authors.

• Sites focused on marketing a single book, unless additional content can be considered to be of general interest to visitors.

• Sites which contain either a personal "agenda", content deliberately hurtful to others, or content considered inappropriate for viewing in polite company. A Children's Literature Gathering is intended as a Family Safe site.*

Because visitors who are invited to explore will, in fact explore, the entirety of any site accepted for inclusion in A Children's Literature Gathering should be appropriate for family viewing. In other words, common sense is expected to prevail with the general guideline being "Try Not To Hurt Each Other".

That said, no representations can made about the type of material a visitor may encounter while exploring links leading away from members pages. Also, although A Children's Literature Gathering will make every effort to review sites in detail prior to inclusion, should we be advised that content on a members site has changed to include material considered inappropriate for viewing by the typical audience of A Children's Literature Gathering , members can expect an inappropriate site to be promptly replaced with one considered better suited for general viewing. There are, after all, children present.

Should an applicant have questions as to whether a site would be considered appropriate for inclusion, please feel free to inquire first.

How do I join the A Children's Literature Gathering? - The first step of course, is to apply. Simply fill out this form (the password may be any combination of letters/numbers; do write it down, you'll need it later if you'd like to edit any information):

Applicants sites will be promptly reviewed. New Members will receive an e-mail with your personal site ID NUMBER and the customized HTML code to copy and paste to either your index page, or to the page which deals with children's books. When you add the coding to your page, you will replace the words YOURNUMBER with the numerical figure (your ID NUMBER) , leaving all other coding exactly as shown.

Please also copy the two graphics below by clicking on each with your RIGHT mouse button, then upload them to your server. Graphic names are (boy2.gif and bookani2.gif) . When you're finished, it will look like this:

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