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Children's Literature
Links
General Resources | Book
Sites
General
Resources
 Aesops
Fables Online
Collection
http://aesopfables.com
More than 600 fables. The tales
are listed alphabetically with the moreal of each story
beside its title.
ALA - Booklist and Book Awards
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm
A listing of many award categories and winners--from
ALA. Includes Alex Awards, Michael L. Printz Award, Best Books for Young Adults, Books for the College Bound and many more.
ALSC Notable
Children's Books
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/childrensnotable/notablechibooks/index.cfm
From ALA.
BookSpot
http://www.bookspot.com/
Award winner, genres, reading initiatives like Reading By
9.
Caldecott
Medal Home Page
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.cfm
A listing of all award winners since 1938 plus honor
books.
Carol Hurst's
Children's Literature Site
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html
A great site for literature units and ideas and
author/illustrator information.
Children's
Literature Web
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Author and illustrator information, reading lists, award
winner, storytelling, reader's theatre, and literature units
are some of the resources available here. This is one of the
best children's literature sites on the web.
Coretta
Scott King Award
http://aalbc.com/books/related.htm
A history of the award and past and current winners.
Good
Reading
http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtgood.html
"101 Significant Books," "A Short List of Books to Read on Vacation," "A Short List of Books to Read Before Entering College," and "A Short List of Books to Read After Retirement."
International Reading
Association
http://www.reading.org/
The
Internet Classic
Archive
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
A list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different
authors.
National
Book Awards
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008.htmljordan
Check out the section for children's winners.
Nancy J. Keane's Children's Literature Webpage
http://www.nancykeane.com
These short booktalks are intended to be used by library
personnel and teachers. Currently, there are over 5000
booktalks in the database. Some include grade Interest Level
(IL) and grade Reading Level (RL) of the books
Newbery Medal
Home Page
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal.cfm
A listing of all award winners since 1929 as well as honor
books.
Novelinks
http://english.byu.edu/novelinks/default.html
Reading Resources and literary units of approximately 75 of the most commonly studied authors for middle school and high school.
Online Literary
Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
The Internet Public Library's Literary Criticism collection
offers a fast and easy way to find criticism and
biographical information for over 100 authors and their
works. This is a particularly great source for secondary
schools.
On-Lion
Recommended Reading
http://kids.nypl.org/reading/recommended.cfm
From The New York Public
Library, this is a listing of many recommended
children's books including "100 Picture Books Everyone
Should Know."
Reading
Rainbow
http://www.canlearn.com/ReadingR/rr-alt.html
Simple Things
You Can Do To Help All Children Read Well and Independently
by the End of the Third Grade
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/SimpleThings/
Part of the America Reads website, this has tips for
educators and parents to promote literacy.
Stories
and Fairy Tales Theme
Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/fairytales.html
Links to fairy tales to many
countries around the world.
Story
Hour
http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/
From the Internet Public
Library-- you can read popular stories online. Stories
include various Mother Goose tales and popular fairy
tales.
Trelease-On
Reading
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/
Jim Trelease's site. He has the COOLEST ideas about
displaying books using rain gutters. Lesley has indicated
that she will provide the funding for any librarian in our
district who wants to install them
Book
Sites
Advanced Book
Exchange
http://www.abebooks.com/
Out of print books.
Amazon Books
http://www.amazon.com
Order books online. Reviews. Author info.
Bookwire
http://www.bookwire.com/
Features, reviews, original fiction, author interviews,
etc.
Book Search
http://www.booksearch.com/
Out of print books.
Children's Book
Council
http://www.cbcbooks.org/
Teacher's pages and author/illustrator info.
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