Authors

http://wildes.home.mindspring.com/Once.Upon.A.Lap/index7.html
    The Internet Public Library Author Biographies.

http://nova.bsuvc.bsu.edu/~00mevancamp/ouat.html
    Once Upon a Time:  A Children's Literature Website.

http://www.avi-writer.com/
    AVI - books, biography, bulletin board.

http://www.janbrett.com/
    One of the best sites on the Internet.  Free activity packs for teachers and librarians.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/show-interview/s-s-taplesuzannefisher/002-5851140-9791064
    Interview with Suzanne Fisher Staples.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter96/pubCONN.html
    Suzanne Fisher Staples - "What Johnny Can't Read:  Censorship in American Libraries"

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter95/Staples.html
    Suzanne Fisher Staples - "Different is Just Different"

http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~janjua/pak.htm
    Picture site of Pakistan (including Cholistan Desert).

http://www.inform.umd.edu/StudentOrg/psa/Pakistan/HTMLS/list.html
    Many wonderful photographs of Pakistan (including Cholistan Desert).

http://www.cholistan.com/
    A book on the Cholistan Desert and its people.
 
http://www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor/Avi.html
    AVI - Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.carolhurst.com/newsletters/23dnewsletters.html
    Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Newsletter - AVI featured author.

http://www.patriciapolacco.com/
    Patricia Polacco's homepage.

http://www.eric-carle.com/
    Eric Carle's homepage.

http://cslewis.DrZeus.net/
    Into the Wardrobe:  The Chronicles of Narnia - many amazing links to Lewis on the Internet.

http://ivory.trentu.ca/www/cl/Lewis-bib.html
    C. S. Lewis Biography

http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ26.HTM      (my personal favorite Lewis web site)
    C. S. Lewis Mega-Links Page - Bibliographies, GENERAL LEWIS WEBSITES / LINK PAGES / SOCIETIES / LISTS / CONFERENCES / CHAT, CHRONICLES OF NARNIA WEBSITES AND ARTICLES, ARTICLES / ESSAYS / MISC., LEWIS BOOKS: REVIEWS, SUMMARIES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, ANALYSIS, AND BOOKSELLERS, The Inklings & Other Lewis Friends & Influences.

http://www.tayloru.edu/cslewis/Bane.htm
    Myth Made Truth: The Origins of the Chronicles of Narnia, by Mark Bane

http://members.aol.com/thompsonja/cslewis.htm
    The Bible and C. S. Lewis

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/8729/cslewis.html
    The Narnian Chronicles by C. S. Lewis - Short biography and annotations on all seven books.

http://members.tripod.com/~AMelashenko/index.html
    The Chronicles of Narnia were created by C.S. Lewis. Now you can visit Narnia and all your favorite places.

http://www.literature.org/Works/Rudyard-Kipling/jungle-book/
    Full text version of the Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling.

http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/kipling_ind.html
Multitude of poems by Rudyard Kipling

http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/cit/citlckipling.htm
    Library of Congress Citations for Rudyard Kipling

http://www.enteract.com/~rileyjt/7/bio.html
    Biography of Rudyard Kipling and related literature.

http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/dcorley/authors/authors.htm
    Excellent site that links to 28 famous authors of children's literature.
 
Anne Carroll Moore
http://www.pe.net/~ellerbee/women/moore.html
    Biography.

http://www.hamline.edu/depts/gradprog/5owls/name.html
    Biography and discussion of The Three Owls. 
 
Children's Literature Online Resources
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/kayhp2.html
    Kay Vandegrift, Rutgers School of Communication, Library and Information Science.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/aboutclwg.html
    The Children's Literature Web Guide.  David K. Brown, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary, Canada.

http://www.candlelightstories.com/storypage.asp
    Candlelight Stories:  Hans Christian Andersen stories.

A LINK TO STORIES (K-6)
A place to explore illustrated stories from around the world. Also, kids can write their own stories and plays, interact with other kids, and voice their opinion in thekids.com polls.
http://www.thekids.com/

SARAH PLAIN AND TALL:
http://www.amered.com/curr/mwspt.html
24 lessons for Patricia MacLachlan's novel, including writing a final sequel chapter.

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS:
http://lausd.k12.ca.us/~cburleso/Lessons/IBDolphins.htm#dolphin
This site includes chapter study guides and author information on this popular novel.

THE EGYPT GAME & THE GYPSY GAME:
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachersbdd/gyps.html#ideas
This site includes teaching ideas for the two novels by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, as well as clickable and
related internet resources.

IDENTIFYING CONFLICTS:
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hmll/blue/work/conflict.html
These activities will help students to identify different conflicts in novels.

A SUGGESTED TEACHING SEQUENCE FOR SHARED READING:
http://www.educ.kent.edu/deafed/961007j.htm
A seven step process approach to shared reading, with suggested activities and focal points at each step. 

DIRECTED READING-THINKING ACTIVITY:
http://www.educ.kent.edu/deafed/961007k.htm
Students learn to hypothesize, predict and do follow-up procedures in this literature activity.

ENCOURAGING THE YOUNG READER:
GRADES 3 THROUGH 6:
http://www.ed.gov/Family/RWN/Activ97/young.html
Activities from the Department of Education to encourage young readers to further develop their
reading skills.

ELECTRIC LIBRARY ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/home.html
Extra's Reference Week continues today with an online encyclopedia.  You can browse this one by
letter or by a keyword.

ELEMENTS OF A STORY:
http://lausd.k12.ca.us/~cburleso/Lessons/LiteraryConcepts.htm
All the elements of a story are listed and defined here.

A LINK TO READING (K-12)
The Reading Corner.  A place to find good books to read.
http://www.carr.org/read/

A LINK TO CONNECTION (7-12)
On The Curb. "Written by young people, for young people who are making the world a better place." Great! Check it out.
http://www.onthecurb.org/

TIMELESS CLASSICS: BOOKLIST FOR GRADES 7 & 8:
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/timeless.html#78
You guessed it--a list of treasured novels appropriate for studying in middle school.

THE INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY:  ONLINE TEXT COLLECTION:
http://www.ipl.org/reading/books
Over 9500 (!!) titles online at this wonderful site.

RECOMMENDED BOOK LIST FOR GRADES 9 - 12:
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/timeless.html#912
A classics list of appropriate books for grade level.

http://Cybereditions.com/aldaily/
This site features stimulating and intelligent articles and links, with updates daily. Links
to newspapers, journals, book reviews, literary criticism, etc.

http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/Andersen/
    Hans Christian Andersen stories and biography.

http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/survey/index.html
    Survey on the Usefulness of Language Arts-related Web Sites
 
http://www2.wcoil.com/~ellerbee/childlit.html
    Database of Award Winning Children's Literature by Lisa R. Bartle.
 
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/bibs/multicul.html
    Multicultural Literature in the Elementary Classroom.  ERIC documents.

http://lupus.northern.edu:90/hastingw/picbkhis.htm
The History of Illustrated books:

http://www.az.com/~dday/books.html
Brianna's Name That Book - great site

http://members.visi.net/~jfelker/
The Hornbook and Beyond:  A Survey of Reference and Nonfiction Resources for Children

http://www.hbook.com/
The Horn Book, Inc.

http://216.129.146.158/
    Winnie the Pooh's homepage.

http://www.bookspot.com/bookreviews.htm
    Book reviews: Book List, Book Page, NY Times, Publisher's Weekly, etc.

Caldecott Winners
http://www.ala.org/alsc/cmedal.html
History of the Caldecott Award.

http://www.nadanpub.com/caldecot.htm
Caldecott Winners - Great site with pictures of the Caldecott winners and Honor books divided by decade.

http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/reading/elem/caldecot.htm
Caldecott Winners - List of winners and dates.

http://acs6.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/caldecott.html
Children's Literature Webguide - Caldecott winners.

http://www.rarebooks.org/caldecot.htm
Caldecott winners - List by date.

http://awardbooks.hypermart.net/
    Award Winning Books

http://www.kokomo.lib.in.us/awardbooks.html
    Award Winning Books

http://www.just-for-kids.com/AWARD.HTM
    Just for Kids - Award Winning Books.

http://everypicture.com/
    Unique site to view (or purchase) original artwork by famous illustrators of children's books. Title of site:  Every Picture tells a Story.

http://wildes.home.mindspring.com/Once.Upon.A.Lap/index7.html
    Jacqueline Briggs Martin's new Caldecott Winner:  Snowflake Bentley.

http://nova.bsuvc.bsu.edu/~00mevancamp/aaip.html
    Authors' and Illustrators' Pages
 

Newbery Winners
http://fifeschools.com/fifeschools/lafolder/nbryawrd2258.html
Another list of Newbery winners.

http://www.logan.lib.ut.us/booklist/children/awards/newberm.htm
Newbery Books since the beginning.

Picture books:
http://www.peterrabbit.co.uk/
    Peter Rabbit Homepage.

Poetry Resources on the Internet
http://www.westegg.com/nash/
    Candy is Dandy but Liquor is Quicker:  Ogden Nash Online

http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/MillerComm/millercommarchive/SP97/adoff/bio.html
    Arnold Adoff - biography.

http://www2.pair.com/mgraz/Lear/index.html
    Edward Lear Homepage - Nonsense Poetry and Art

http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html
    Lewis Carrol Home Page

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/delamare.htm
    Walter de la Mare (1873-1953) - biography, selected works

http://www.bconnex.net/~mbuchana/realms/thanks/word.html
    Aileen Fisher "All in a Word"

http://narc.tnc.com/~tlbarrow/poetry.html
    Collection of poems by various authors.

http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/mswenson.htm
    May Swenson - bibliography

http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/dcorley/authors/Green.htm
    Eloise Greenfield

http://www.mcdougallittell.com/lit/guest/soto/index.htm
    Gary Soto author "spotlight" by McDougal Littell.

http://www.mcdougallittell.com/lit/guest/soto/index.htm
    Jack Prelutsky - biography, literary criticism, lesson plans, online poetry.

 
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