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DIRECTORIES:
The Children's Literature Web Guide
GENERAL AUTHOR /
ILLUSTRATOR SITES:
Learning About
the Author and Illustrator - more than 600 author sites, arranged
alphabetically.
AUTHORS /
ILLUSTRATORS FOR YOUNG READERS :
Marc Brown -
The Arthur Page - Games, stories
and children's art
Joanna Cole and
Bruce Degan - (Magic School Bus) What are Ms. Frizzle and the class
up to next?
Mem Fox
-
Mem's biography, likes and dislikes, and how she wrote many of her books.
The
Audrey Wood Clubhouse - Meet Audrey Wood and five other award winning
children's book creators (Don Wood, David Shannon, Bruce Robert Wood, Robert
Florczak, Mark Teague). Join in activities with Audrey Wood. Discover how
picture books are written and illustrated.
Author and
Illustrator Dav Pilkey's Web Site O'Fun - Official Web site for Dav Pilkey.
Includes biographical information and tells about his books. Includes fun
activities as well.
Chucklebait.com - Jon met up with Lane Smith around 1986 or so, and nothing
has been the same since. Their first book, the wise guy fairy tale retelling
The True Story of The Three Little Pigs! was initially rejected by most
publishers as "to weird" and "too sophisticated". Jon and Lane's Stinky Cheese
Man took the world of the picture book a few steps further.
Official
Eric Carle Website - Answers to frequently asked questions about Eric Carle
and his books, with a biography and list of his works. For teachers, parents,
and librarians there are also ideas for activities that revolve around Carle
books. Also news and previews of his upcoming titles.
Little
Critter - "Hi! I'm Little Critter. I live in Critterville. I have a mom
and dad and a little sister and a little brother." Mercer Mayer: "After High
School, I went to Honolulu Academy of Arts. Then I moved to New York City. Now
I live in Connecticut. My wife, Gina, and I write the Little Critter stories
together. We have four children."
Gail
Gibbons Home Page
http://www.janbrett.com/
AUTHORS /
ILLUSTRATORS FOR INTERMEDIATE READERS:
Learning about
Ann McGovern - "This web site gives you the chance to get to now me, my
travels, my scuba diving adventures, my school visits, my family, and of course,
my books."
Learning about
Gary Paulsen - Includes a biography, book list, links to interviews, awards,
and reviews of Gary Paulsen's books. Sources for further reading are also
given.
AVI -
Questions and answers about children's author Avi, with Avi's own notes about
each one of his books, including the cover art from each. Includes excerpts
from his works-in-progress.
Barbara Park
- "Of all the characters I have created, I have three favorites: Molly Vera
Thompson in The Kid in the Red Jacket, Thomas Russo in My Mother Got Married
(And Other Disasters), and of course, the wild and crazy Junie B. Jones. The
great fun in writing about the very young characters is that little kids will
say and do almost anything!"
Betsy
Byars - Betsy Byars has written over fifty books for young people. She has
won many awards. Among them are the Newberry Medal in 1971 for her novel The
Summer of the Swans, the American Book Award in 1981 for The Night Swimmers,
The Edgar (for the best mystery for young people) in 1992 for Wanted.. Mud
Blossom.
Louis Sachar -
I never talk about a book until I'm finished writing it. (Lucky and Tippy are
sworn to secrecy as well.) It took me a year and a half to write Holes, and
nobody knew anything about it, not even my wife or daughter. I think that is
helpful for writing, as well as for anything else that takes a lot of
self-motivation. The more you talk about something, the less you tend to do it.
The
World of Robert Quackenbush - Meet the author, look at the list of his
books, get the details about the workshops, school, and library visits available
from Robert Quackenbush. Book art samples and his AV catalog are also
available.
Jean Craighead George is
the winner of the 1973 Newbery Medal for Julie of the Wolves and
recipient of twenty other awards including the Hans Christian Anderson Honor
List for My Side of the Mountain. She has written over one hundred
books about children interacting with nature and has illustrated many of her
books.
http://www.janetstevens.com/
http://www.janeyolen.com/
http://www.patriciapolacco.com/
http://www.berenstainbears.com/
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/magictreehouse/ Mary Pope Osborne
http://www.field-guides.com/ virtual field trips
Vicki Cobb
is the well-known author of more than eighty highly entertaining nonfiction
books for children.
www.vickicobb.com
RESEARCH AND REFERENCE
http://www.thesaurus.com/
http://www.eb.com/ encyclopedia britannica
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm webster’s dictionary
http://k12.learningnetwork.com/infoplease
http://itools.com/research-it/
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations currently available through Project Bartleby.
Is such a tool still valuable? Of course, especially when it is wisely
supplemented with several more modern Web databases.
Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com
Infoplease Kids' Almanac
http://kids.infoplease.com
Old Farmer's Almanac
http://www.almanac.com/
Biography.com. The Biographical Dictionary includes more than 27,000
"notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the
present day." The database may be searched by name, birth and death years,
positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, miscellaneous
achievements, and other keywords.
“CHOICES”
Awards - Each year, 10,000 students and teachers across America vote
on the best books published in a given year. Done under the auspices of the
International
Reading Association and the Children's Book Council, each year's tally is
divided into three categories (Children; Young Adults; and Teachers) and can be
found here.
America's Story - This is a more use-friendly site for the Library of
Congress (see previous listing), extremely story- and entertainment-oriented,
and sure to be a favorite of families. The images are right from the nation's
archives, and the site includes a scavenger hunt.
www.homeworkspot.com is a free homework information portal that features the
very best K-12 homework-related sites together with engaging editorial in one
high-utility, educational spot.
Among the solid choices for basic
presidential information is the
White House Executive Office of the President Page
, which offers
biographies of all the presidents and first ladies, as well as links to
inaugural addresses. The site also provides substantial material on the current
executive office. "41 Presidents, 41 weeks" is the motto of C-SPAN’s 20th
anniversary celebration,
American Presidents: Life Portraits . This new presidential resource is a
companion site to the network’s expansive programming schedule on the
presidents. In addition to its biographical resources, the site offers extensive
media for download, program transcripts, travel and historic site information,
and comprehensive leads for further study. Each week a new well-written American
Presidents Teacher Guide is added to the archive.
All Fifty American States
Home Pages
http://www.globalcomputing.com/states.html
50
States & Capitals
http://www.50states.com/
National Atlas of the
United States
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasvue.html
National Parks
http://www.nps.gov/
Phil’s Place Tourism Page: All Fifty
States
http://mav.net/phil/tourism.shtml
Postcards From America
http://www.postcardsfrom.com/
BOOKLISTS
AND AWARDS:
The Caldecott Medal
The Newbery Medal
Sequoyah
- Children's
Book Award
LIBRARIES:
Metropolitan
Library System ( Edmond Public Library)
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