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The
Author Page from the Internet Public Library Youth Division features
biographies of popular authors. www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor |
| The
Children's Literature Web Guide from the University of Calgary
includes many helpful resources for teachers, librarians, and parents,
including lists of children’s book awards and teaching ideas for children’s
books. www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown |
The Boyds
Mills Press Web site includes book information, teaching ideas,
brief biographies of authors and illustrators, and information on author
and illustrator visits.
www.boydsmillspress.com/athrillst.tpl |
Vandergrift’s
Children’s Literature Page is a wonderful resource on children’s
literature from a professor at Rutgers University. It provides many biographies
of authors as well as sections on censorship, positive multicultural images,
and dealing with sensitive issues.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ |
HarperChildren’s.com
features activities for children and biographies of authors, including
Kevin Henkes, Beverly Cleary, E.B. White, and others.
www.harperchildrens.com/hch |
| Activities
for Children from the National Center for Children’s Illustrated
Literature provides art-related lesson plans for teachers to use with the
books of Kevin Henkes, Diane Stanley, David Wiesner, and others. www.nccil.org/children |
Penguin
Putnam Young Readers features author and illustrator information
and extensive reading group guides for many books.
http://www.penguinputnam.com/ |
| ALA
Resources for Parents, Teens and Kids includes recommended reading
lists, notable books, and more. www.ala.org/parents/index.html |
Kids@Random
offers information and activities for children to accompany popular series
such as Berenstain Bears, Junie B. Jones, and the Magic Treehouse. |
Featured
Children’s Books from Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site
presents a list of books with activities and discussion questions.
www.carolhurst.com/titles/featuredtitles.html |
Teachers@Random
includes a thematic index to books, teachers guides, and author and illustrator
information. www.randomhouse.com/teachers |
| A
Quick Guide to Authors and Illustrators from the Cooperative Children’s
Book Center (CCBC) in Madison supplies author/illustrator interviews and
webcasts that feature conversations with authors, including Joseph Bruchac,
Jean Craighead George, Lois Ehlert, Naomi Shihab Nye, and others. www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/finder.htm |
Author
Illustrator Source is a listing of published writers and illustrators
who conduct student presentations or teacher workshops across the country.
The list is accessible either alphabetically or by region. www.author-illustr-source.com |
