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ACHUKA
ACHUKA aims to be an informative, reliable and thought-provoking site covering the children's books market in the UK. Includes author and publisher news, and monthly reviews of children's fiction, non-fiction, Teenage/YA, First Readers, Picture Books, and poetry. Also includes guest interviews and profiles.
Bedtime stories for children
A bedtime story site for busy parents.
Berenstain Bears
Learn about the Berenstain Bears plus lots of activities.
Book Adventure
Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is a non-profit organization.
Bookhive
Select a category and get short book reviews for that subject.
CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide
There are children's stories, information about authors and illustrators, children's book awards, and lots of lists. This site has lists of book discussion groups, book reviews and other resources.
Cranes for Peace
Our goal is to become the resource center for the best known children's book about Sadako, Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr. The Cranes for Peace Page will provide information about Sadako-related projects as well as other crane projects.
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection is one of North America's leading research centers in the field of children's literature. As well as describing the contents of this collection (housed at the University of Southern Mississippi), there are online exhibits, such as ones on Ezra Jack Keats and Kate Greenaway.
Florida Library Youth Program
Reader advisory and lists for stories, poems, songs, etc.
Growing Seasons
The story plus children's activities and tours.
Guys Read
A literacy program to connect boys with books they will want to read and to help boys become better readers, better students and better guys.
Harry Potter Movies
See what's happening behind the scenes of the movie.
Just For Kids Who Love Books
Just like the title says this great site offers kids all kinds of things to explore about books.
KidLit Children's Literature Home Page
Welcome to the KidLit WebSite, designed for kids (mostly) and for adults interested in quality children's literature. We offer all kids an opportunity to see their works published on the worldwide web. We welcome any submissions in electronic form, either by email or by output from a word processor. All submissions must be in a PC-compatible format.
Kids' Corner Featuring Beatrix Potter
Illustrated online editions of Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, Two Bad Mice, Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin, and Timmy Tiptoes. This is a section of the Wired for Books web site produced by the Ohio University Telecommunications Center.
Lemony Snicket
As Lemony Snicket says, this site is filled with "dreadful images," "wretched information," and "unnerving games."
Lewis Carroll Online Literature Library
This site contains the complete texts of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, the Hunting of the Snark, and Sylvie and Bruno. Tenniel's original illustrations are included.
National Geographic Bookworm Corner
Children can give and get advice on books to read. They can post messages about their favorite books and read reviews from children around the world.
The Phantom Tollbooth
Excerpts from Norton Juster's children's book, The Phantom Tollbooth. Also includes a bibliography of works based on The Phantom Tollbooth, including plays, films, and recordings and a bibliography of other books by Norton Juster.
Poetry for Upper Elementary Students
Offers a list of links to some full-text classics. Some poetry favorites: Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Daffodils by William Wordsworth, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, Trees by Joyce Kilmer and many more.
Reading Corner
Book reviews for readers in grades 2-8 that give more information than a library catalog.
Reading Rants
Booklists for young adult readers in 16 categories. Click on Librarians Index to the Internet for Readers Advisory Lists.
Rebus Rhymes
In these Mother Goose rhymes, some words are shown as icons, encouraging young children to "read" along. Plus other fun sites and games for young children.
Scholastic Kids
Play games about your favorite books.
The Scoop - Childrens Book reviews and more
Almost everything about books and authors for young people.
Treasure Island
These pages offer you information on everything you could possibly want to know about Treasure Island. Find out about the author, the characters of the book, tropical islands, pirates, buried treasure and lots more! On top of this you can contribute by sending in your reviews of the book and descriptions of dastardly pirates created by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Webtime Stories
Annotated collection of children's literature sites. Contains "best of", picture books, folk tales, science fiction, etc. for children and teens. From the Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer program.
World of Reading
Book reviews by kids, for kids. It is our purpose to provide an interactive, kid-safe site, therefore, reviews that are submitted are not automatically posted. Children should not be encouraged to submit information over the Internet without adult supervision, therefore if no supervising adult contact is identified with a review, it will not be posted.
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Last Updated: 12/26/06