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Children's Literature
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General Resources | Book
Sites
General
Resources
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.
The Scoop
- Children's Book News
http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/main.html
Award winners, educator's resources, biographies,
interviews, etc.
1999 Notable
Children's Books
http://www.ala.org/alsc/nbook99.html
From ALA.
Newbery Medal
Home Page
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
A listing of all award winners since 1929 as well as honor
books.
Caldecott
Medal Home Page
http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html
A listing of all award winners since 1938 plus honor
books.
Coretta
Scott King Award
http://www.ala.org/srrt/csking/index.html
A history of the award and past and current winners.
National
Book Awards
http://www.bookwire.com/nbf/docs/awards.html
Check out the section for children's winners.
Database
of Award-Winning Children's Literature
http://www2.wcoil.com/~ellerbee/childlit.html
Award winning books searchable via keyword or phrase,
or by using a form to indicate reading level, genre,
language, historical period, gender and ethinicity, and
other factors.
Fairrosa
Cyber Library of Children's
Literature
http://www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/
Articles, reviews,
author/illustrator info, discussions, etc.
The Reading
Corner
http://www.carr.org/read/
A place for students in grades 2-8 to find good books
to read. (It's a companion to The
Author Corner.) Special features include an annotation
of every Newbery, an annotation and picture of every
Caldecott, and a link to state reading award web sites.
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
Lists
http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/lists.htm
These recommended reading lists, organized by theme
and/or level, were created individually or as cooperative
ventures by members of the international school librarian's
listserv, LM_NET, Mike Eisenberg and Peter Milbury.
BookSpot
http://www.bookspot.com/
Award winner, genres, reading initiatives like Reading By
9.
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.
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.
ALSC - Awards
and Notables
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awards.html
A listing of many award categories and winners--from
ALA.
On-Lion
Recommended Reading
http://www.nypl.org/branch/kids/lists.html
From The New York Public
Library, this is a listing of many recommended
children's books including "100 Picture Books Everyone
Should Know."
Children's
Choice Awards 1998
http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/choice98.htm
It's fun to see what students like to read in other
states. This site has a listing of all the state reading
organizations (like our CLAU - Children's Literature
Association of Utah) and the books that the young people in
that state chose as their favorites.
America
Reads Challenge
http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/
The America Reads Challenge calls on all Americans to
support teachers and help ensure that every American child
can read well and independently by the end of 3rd grade.
LION -
Literature Online
http://www.umi.com/k12/main/K12LION/
contains over 350,000 full-text works of English and
American literature. A new integrated search interface
allows students and teachers to easily explore original
works, author biographies, and contemporary literary
criticism within a single resource.
Recommended
Reading
http://www.alltogethernow.org/rl/rl.htm
Zillions of book lists by genre, grade level, themes,
school subjects, etc. Part of the All
Together Now site.
Book
Hive
http://www.plcmc.lib.nc.us/bookhive/
Produced by a public library in North Carolina, the
site has many booklists for children categorized into
several genres such as adventure, humor, mystery. Children
and adults can search the database of reviews to find books
by interest, category, author, title, and number of
pages.
National Children's Book and
Literacy Alliance
http://www.ncbla.org/
The NCBLA is a not-for-profit organization
established to create and pursue a campaign to get children
reading and keep children reading.
Learning To Read
http://www.toread.com/
Improving the quality of reading instruction through
the study ofthe reading process and teaching techniques.
Brianna's Name
That Book
http://www.az.com/~dday/books.html
Many book lists and a fun Name That Book game.
Good
Reading
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/FranklinMS/research/libtoc.html#hi
Made by a middle school librarian, for categories like
Historical Fiction, Multicultural, World War II, Sports,
etc.
Book
Talks Quick and Simple
http://www.concord.k12.nh.us/schools/rundlett/booktalks/
These short booktalks are intended to be used by library
personnel and teachers. Currently, there are over 600
booktalks in the database. Some include grade Interest Level
(IL) and grade Reading Level (RL) of the books
Book Reviews
http://www.halsted.org/br.htm
A collection of book reviews that I have written and
posted on LMnet for other librarians by Frederick
Muller.
Booklists
of Children's Literature
http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/children_booklists.html
From a public library in Indiana, this is a bibliography of
suggested titles in such categories as Funny Fiction,
Adventure Stories, Predictable Books, etc .
International Reading
Association
http://www.reading.org/
The Utah Council of
the International Reading Association
http://catsis.weber.edu/ucira/
Reading
Rainbow
http://www.canlearn.com/ReadingR/rr-alt.html
Publishers
Weekly Children's Bestseller
List
http://www.bookwire.com/pw/bsl/childrens/current.childrens.html
Lists the best-selling
children's books and is updated weekly.
Tales
of Wonder : Folk and Fairy Tales From Around the
World
http://darsie.ucdavis.edu/tales/
Select a country and read their tales.
Aesops
Fables Online
Collection
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
More than 600 fables. The tales
are listed alphabetically with the moreal of each story
beside its title.
Reading
Rainbow
http://www.canlearn.com/ReadingR/rr-alt.html
101
Out-Of-This-World Books for Kids Ages
8-13
http://als.lib.wi.us/MRList.html
Stories
and Fairy Tales Theme
Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/fairytales.html
Links to fairy tales to many
countries around the world.
Aesop's
Fables
gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu/11/Ebooks/By%20Title/aesop
Aesop's
Fables
http://www.umass.edu/acco/projects/aesop/
A retelling of these tales with
original illustrations.
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.
The
Internet Classic
Archive
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
A list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different
authors.
Book
Sites
Children's Book
Council
http://www.cbcbooks.org/
Teacher's pages and author/illustrator info.
Amazon Books
http://www.amazon.com
Order books online. Reviews. Author info.
Barnes and
Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Order books.
Powell's Books
http://www.powells.com/
Check out their Picks for Kids.
Acses
http://www.acses.com/
Select a book, movie, or music title, and Acses
automatically visits all major online stores simultaneously
to retrieve the current prices from each store.
Bookwire
http://www.bookwire.com/
Features, reviews, original fiction, author interviews,
etc.
BookBrowser
http://www.bookbrowser.com/
It has fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming
titles, author information and much more.
BookWeb
http://www.bookweb.org/bookstores/browse.html
American Booksellers Association.
AddAll
http://www.addall.com/
You can search 40 different web bookstores at the
same time to get the best price.
BookFinder
http://www.bookfinder.com/
A book shopping search engine that scans bookseller
databases to find new, used, rare, and out of print
books.
Borders
http://www.borders.com/
BiblioFind
http://www.bibliofind.com/
Used and rare books.
Advanced Book
Exchange
http://www.abebooks.com/
Out of print books.
Book Search
http://www.booksearch.com/
Out of print books.
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