Stories on Line || Lessons & Ideas || Authors || Student Authors || MultiCultural || Teaching Guides  || Poetry Theatre || |Discussion Groups || Book Lists || Book Reviews || Book Publishers || Super Sites || Harry Potter
        by Joyce L. Morris, Ed.D. Last revised 12/00
 
Stories Online
IPL Story Hour Internet Public Library. Online Stories for Children. Includes the Lily Pad, It's Magic
http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/
Folklore, Myth and Legend Links to lots of online stories and folklore sites.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html
Aesop's Fables -  Online Collection - 655+ fables - Listen to some of them online. http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
Rattic in the Attic Oneline multimedia story with music, animation and text. 
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/rattic/rattic1.html
Storytime Check out the variety of online stories from Dr Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"  to "Theodore the Tugboat."
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/webtime/story.html
Paul Bunyen Animated tale of Paul Bunyan and Babe, his blue ox.
http://www.paulbunyantrail.com/talltale.html
Lesson Plans & Ideas
ERIC/REC Lesson Plans Lots of Lesson Plans in Children's Literature at http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/bks/lhome.html
Doucette Index:  Search for Literature Based teaching ideas.
http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/
Children's Literature Activities Links to lessons about children's Literature. Search by grade level 
or genre.
http://members.aol.com/MGoudie/ChildrensLit.html
Lesson Plans For Learning Company CD's  Lesson Plans and Blackline Masters CD's Fom the Learning Company 
http://www.learningcompanyschool.com/school/resource/lessons.htm
Johnny Appleseed Unit about folkhero for Kindergarten. 
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/K98JohnnyAppleseed.htm
The Very Lonely Firefly Teaching ideas to use with Carle book.
http://www.eric-carle.com/bb-VLFF.html
Authors on the Web
The Official Eric Carle Web Site http://www.eric-carle.com
Tomie DePaola http://www.bingley.com/
The Beverly Cleary Home Page http://www.teleport.com/~krp/cleary.html
Ezra Jack Keats Virtual Exhibit http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/keats/main.html
The Madeleine L'Engle WWW Resource http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8838/
The Madeleine L'Engle Fan Club http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~eithlan/lengle.html
Patricia Polacco.com http://www.patriciapolacco.com/home.html
The Official Gary Paulsen site http://www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen
Chris Van Allsburg http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/author/cva/index.html
Meet Authors and Illustrators http://www.childrenslit.com/f_mai.htm
Student Authors on the Web
KidLit Children's Literature Home Page We offer all kids an opportunity to see their works published on the worldwide web.
http://mgfx.com/kidlit
Publishing  A Book for Beginning Readers Instructions about publishing books for young children. 
http://ali.apple.com/action.lasso?-database=uops&-response=/ali/uops_
display.html&-op=equals&uopid=700&-search
 Stone Soup magazine Stone Soup brings young readers thought-provoking stories, heartfelt poems, and beautiful art by their peers worldwide. Budding writers and artists are encouraged to create and submit their own work. 
http://www.stonesoup.com
Book Lists
Newbery Medal Winners http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/newbery.html
ALSC: Newbery Medal Description, History, & Criteria http://www.ala.org/alsc/nmedal.html
Caldecott Medal http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/caldecott.html
ALSC: Caldecott Medal Description, History, & Criteria http://www.ala.org/alsc/cmedal.html
U.S. Children's Book Awards http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/usawards.html
HomeArts: Books Every Child Should Read  This special HomeArts series is designed as a parents' guide to the best children's literature. We have asked a number of today's top writers and critics to choose the books every kid should read.
http://homearts.com/depts/relat/bookintr.htm
100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know From the NYC Public Library at 
http://www.nypl.org/branch/kids/gloria.html
SF Bibliography SF and Fantasy for Children. 400 searchable titles. http://libnt1.lib.uoguelph.ca/SFBib/index.htm
Search the Child e Book Database abstracts of more than 4000 books.
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/search/
Parent's Choice Awards Parent's Choice Awards in Books, 2000 - 1998
http://www.parents-choice.org/default.cfm
MultiCultural Stories and Resources
NATIVE AMERICAN BOOKS Reviews of Books by and about Native Americans
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/books/bookmenu.html
Latino Bibliography Annotated Bibliography of Children's Literature focusing on Latino people, history, and culture.
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/Latino_Bibliography.html
Bibliography: Jewish Culture in Children's Books An annotated bibliography
http://deeptht.armory.com/~web/jbooks.html
African-American Images: Bibliography of Picture Books about African-American Stories.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ChildrenLit/afro.html
Teacher's Guide to African-American Stories Best books and Lesson Plans in African Children's  Literature
Multicultural Student's Literature From th North Central Research Educational Lab
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/presrvce/pe3lk28.htm
Children's Multicultural Literature Resource Written by a mother for her daughter it contains criteria used for reviewing multicultural stories. http://members.aol.com/mcsing29/index.htm
Multicultrual Pavilion* This site is published by the Curry school of Education at the University of Virginia is rich in multicultural resources. In addition of lots of information about literary resources also contains multicultural songs and film reviews, definitions and teaching strategies. . http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/
Making Multicultural Connections You can search this data base of multicultural trade books by name, author, illustrator, cultural Group or subject/grade. 
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/MBD/Books_Begin.html
Choosing the Best Multicultural Books From Scholastic -In this article you'll find leads to 50 great books, plus advice from top educators, writers, and illustrators on how to spot literature that transcends stereotypes. 
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/multicultural.htm
Multicultural Book Reviews Books are grouped by ethnicity and actually graded. http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/joe.html
Multilcultural Review The Multicultural Review is a quarterly journal for teachers at all grade levels, college professors, librarians, administrators, and anyone else who is interested in learning about new developments and trends in the field of cultural diversity.http://www.mcreview.com/mainpage.htm
Kids Space Read stories written by children from a variety of continents and countries http://www.kids-space.org/folk/folk.html
Be a Better Multicultural Educator 10 (self-) Critical Things I can Do to Be A Better Multicultural Educator 
http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/curry/centers/multicultural/resources/self_critique.html
Multicultural Paths From the Curry School of Education, http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/curry/centers/multicultural/sites1.html
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts of Fairy Stories from all over the world. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Cinderellas of the World WebQuest Read Cinderella from a variety of cultures and learn how they are similar and different. http://burlington.k12.vt.us/webquest/rthomas/Cinderellas%20of%20the%20World.htm
Multicultural Stories from Around the World. Search by contintent, country, or people for a multicultural story.  Many are illustrated by children. http://raspberry.forest.net/FMPro?-db=whootie.fp5&-lay=weblay&-format=/whootie/choose.htm&-SortField=b_pizzazz&-view
Korean Folk Tales In English or Korean-These interactive animated stories can be read or narrated in English and Korean. http://story.lg.co.kr:3000/
Aesop's Tales  Read the traditional and modern verisons of these animated stories. http://www.umass.edu/aesop/contents.html
Examining Multicultural Picture Books for the Early Childhood Classroom: 
Possibilities and Pitfalls
Jean Mendoza & Debbie Rees, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This paper discusses the possibilities and the pitfalls involved in the selection of multicultural literature for use with young children: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v3n2/mendoza.html
Book Reviews
KidLit Student Reviews of Books. http://mgfx.com/kidlit/kids/artlit/reviews/index.htm
Read  reviews of "kids" books, by kids.
World of Reading Search for book reviews by children by categories of story.
http://www.worldreading.org/cgi-bin/php.cgi/share.phtml
SDSU Children's Lit Book Reviews  Ages 0 - 5 and Ages 6- 10 from SanDiego State College
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/english/childlit/reviewlist.html
About Kids Books In association with Amazon.com. book reviews and some reflections on sharing books with children, by the free-lance author Kelly Pomeroy. 
and http://www.aboutkidsbooks.homestead.com
The BookHive Read viewer's comments and add your own.
http://www.bookhive.org/bookhive.htm
Discussion Groups:
Book Discussion Groups for Kids http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/brcafe.html
Mailing Lists Related to Children's Literature KIDLIT-L KIDLIT-L is a discussion list about children's literature, involving teachers, librarians, students, and others interested in the
field.
CHILD_LIT  Children's Literature: Criticism and Theory. A list devoted to discussion and critical analysis of children's literature. 
FOLKLORE
A folklore discussion list.
STORYTELL
A discussion list for those interested in storytelling.To subscribe.
Publishers on the Internet 
Scholastic's Homepage Scholastic
http://scholastic.com/
teachers@random Random House 
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers
CBC Member's List  CBC Member List. quite extensive. Links to online sites and addresses to all. 
http://www.cbcbooks.org/member/memlist1.htm
Teaching Guides
Madeline L'Engle's  Time Quartet From Random House teaching fuide to Wrinkle in Time etc series.
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/guides/wrin.html
The Brian Novels http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/guides/bria.html
CyberGuides K-3 CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based,
web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards. 
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyk3.html
CyberGuides 4-5 http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy45.html
Poetry
Poetry 4Kids Children enjoy poems, especially funny ones. This resource features a collection
of poems children will enjoy. 
http://www.poetry4kids.com/
Rimes and Rhymes Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy 
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm
ISLMC The Internet School Library Media Center-forms of poetry, search by grade
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poechild.htm
KIDZPAGE Resource of Poems for Children.
http://www.veeceet.com/index.html
Theatre
Reader's Theatre Editions A collection of reader's theater scripts based on fables, tall tales, fairy tales, legends, and other retold stories from a variety of
cultures.
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html
Reader's Theatre in Elementary School  Citations and Links to resources
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/bibs/rdr-thea.html
Reader's Theatre Scripts Scripts to Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Little Red Hen.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/readersmine.htm
Super Sites

CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide
A fine resource of Internet book related activities for
elementary students and teachers. Includes book discussions, links to other sites and featured
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Launching K-3 Reading Online Course http://teams.lacoe.edu/reading/welcome.html
Apple Learning Interchange Lots of good K-12 resources, searchable by grade, subject.
http://ali.apple.com
Harry Potter
Harry Potter from Scholastic http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/index.htm
Harry Potter Realm News, reviews, quotations, and the Great Hall of Message Boards.
http://www.HarryPotterRealm.com/
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cyberguide: Activities to accompany the book
http://www.connectingstudents.com/lessonplans/potter/index.htm