Book Hive
Guide to children's books categorized by genre and reading level. Includes coloring activities, a quiz, and story telling.
http://www.bookhive.org/By the Book
Children's book news, reviews, and author interviews.
http://www.geocities.com/juliadurango/
Cool-Reads
Hundreds of book reviews for 10-15 year-olds as written by 10-15 year-old reviewers.
http://www.cool-reads.co.uk/
Cricket Country
A literary magazine for babies to age 14. Includes poems, stories (usually with an ethnic theme), and a crossbird puzzle.
http://www.cricketmag.com/cgi-bin/cricket.cgi?tpl=index
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
Create a list of age appropriate books of a particular format, setting, genre, or date. Also features a list of children's literature awards and their winners.
http://www.dawcl.com/
Drew's Notes
A summary of Peter Jenkins' book "A Walk Across America" with character descriptions.
http://members.aol.com/andrewis/drewsnotes1.html
English Essays
Free guide to planning and writing English literature essays at the high school level; content geared toward GCSE.
http://www.crossoverbooks.co.uk/englishessays/pages/homepage.asp
English Resources
Has information, examples and study sites on books used throughout the Australian Secondary Schools Curriculum.
http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/engpage.html
Exploring Literature - Knowledge Explorer Centre
Reviews, commentary, and tools for exploring classic and contemporary literature. Includes a detailed look at literary criticism.
http://www.shared-visions.com/explore/literature/lithome.htm
Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales
Lots of silly poems, stories, and songs from Bob Tucker.
http://www.night.net/tucker/
Just For Kids Who Love Books
Provides links to sites about favorite books and authors, book excerpts and includes book reviews written by kids 8-14. Site is updated weekly.
http://www.alanbrown.com
Kids Place Reading Scene
An exciting online book group for grades 1-8, reviewing a new book every 2 months and giving the opportunity to answer posted questions, and see others answers also.
http://www.eduplace.com/readingscene/index.html
Kids Reads
Offers reading guides for a variety of book. Also contests, author interviews biographical information.
http://www.kidsreads.com/
Literature Classics
Essays, links and analysis on classic literature authors and works, resources, reviews, prizes for submissions, and a growing literature community with forums, chat, and interactive features.
http://www.LiteratureClassics.com/
MightyBook.com
An interactive flash site for ages 2-12 with read aloud books, video song books, vocabulary games and puzzles, a dictionary and thesaurus, and much more.
http://www.mightybook.com/
Naples Book Reviews
Contains student written reviews of 32 books for elementary age readers. Each book review page also showcases a student created work of art that was inspired by the book.
http://www.naples.k12.ny.us/books/home/reviewx.htm
Ongoing Tales From the Past
Old time stories, fairy tales, and poems brought to new life with electronic enhancement make fun reading for all ages; new postings monthly.
http://www.ongoing-tales.com/SERIALS/oldtime/
Playtime Canada
Animated stories, games, and coloring for children.
http://www.playtimecanada.com/
PrimaryGames.com Bookshelf
Read interactive online stories. Stories are easy to read, perfect for younger children.
http://www.primarygames.com/storybooks/bookshelf.htm
Reading Rants
Out of the ordinary teen booklists listed by subjects like Graphic Fantastic, Deadheads and Moshpits, Reality Bytes, and Slacker Fiction.
http://www.tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen/index.html
Scholastic Kids
Scholastic Books interactive pages where kids can play with their favorite book characters, read about new books, and see software reviews; links for parents with advice on helping with homework, and keeping schedules; and a section for teachers incl
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/
See Me 4 Books
Offers teen reviews of new and forthcoming young adult books.
http://seeme4books.com/
Seussville
Features games based on Dr. Seuss's books, extensive biographical information on the man behind them, printables, resources for celebrating Seuss's 100th birthday, and a storymaker.
http://www.seussville.com/
Spaghetti Book Club
Collection of children's book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids. Read posted reviews or submit new ones.
http://www.spaghettibookclub.org/
Storybook Online Network - A Storytelling Community
A storytelling community for children and parents with creative writing, illustrated stories, and interactive activities. Children can read, hear, see, and create stories before them. Stories are available for many different levels of readers. The s
http://www.storybookonline.net/main.html
Teens @ Random
Publisher's web site dedicated to teen readers. Includes thousands of books for teens, plus excerpts, reading group guides, contests, and author bios.
http://www.randomhouse.com/teens
The Audrey Wood Clubhouse
Award-winning children's book author and a group of illustrators explain how children's books are created.
http://www.audreywood.com/
The Carousel Thieves
Fansite for German children's author Cornelia Funke who wrote The Thief Lord and Inkheart. Includes reviews, games, screensavers and wallpapers.
http://www.geocities.com/carousel_thieves/
The International Children's Digital Library
Online collection of books that can be viewed with a number of backgrounds and viewers.
http://www.icdlbooks.org/
The Teen Times
Book lists and summaries for teens on just about everything, listed by categories of reading subject.
http://www.geocities.com/teen_txs/intro.html
The Web Popper Tales
Online stories for ages 3-7 with audio animated stories read by the authors, complete with printable stories to keep and read.
http://www.web-pop.com/bookpopchooser.html
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