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Books
- Provides the complete text of 8,000 books online. Search by title or author.
- Provides the complete text of 8,000 books online. Browse by subject.
- Provides a dozen versions of this classic story with text and pictures.
- Provides text and pictures from 16 different versions.
- Provides the complete text of prize-winning books online. Most of the books are in the public domain because their copyrights have expired. In other words, they are older books.
- Provides "everything you could want to know" about the story, author, and characters in Treasure Island.
- Provides text only - no pictures.
Lesson Plans
- Provides hundreds of lesson plans, listed alphbetically by book title. 1-00
Lists
- Provides one of the largest listings of new and used books in the USA.
- Provides resources compiled by librarians.
- Created by a young girl and her mother, this site entices the reader to explore books for children.
- Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University provides short descriptions of over 4000 picture books for children through a search by keyword, subject, author or title. Does not provide the books or pictures of the books.
- Provides sources of book reviews that specialize in multicultural or ethnic themes. 2-00
- Provides a comprehensive set of resources on puppets and puppetry. 10-99
- Provides sources of stories and fairy tales from different cultures. This is part of the Whootie Owl site. 10-99
- Provides stories for children up to the age 10. 10-99
- Provides resources compiled by librarians.
Materials
Multimedia
Papers
- Provides an interview with Lois Lowry, author of the award winning book, The Giver.
- Provides reviews of books for children, including younger children. 5-00
- Provides information on Melvil Dewey, quizzes and puzzles, and the development of the Dewey Decimal System.
- Provides reviews organized by ethnic group. Provides title author, publisher, date, illustrations, ethnic group, protaganist sex, genre, review, grade level, and then a reviewer's grade for the book. Mostly contains books at the middle and high school levels. 2-00
- Provides links to definitions for key difficult words. No pictures are provided.
- "The Ogre and the Angel" has the message that it is always good to tell someone, such as a mother, father or grandmother, if someone is hurting or harming you. Pictures and words for young children.
- Provides 14 legends involving animals.
- Includes folktales, hero tales, sacred tales, legends, original tales, beginner tales, and grown-up tales.
- Provides stories and fairy tales from different cultures. Organized by the themes of cooperation, courage, creative thinking, friendship, generousness, honesty, justice, kindness, learning, love, regret and recovery, respect for nature, self-awareness and selflessness. Also listed by type of story and the place of origin. Provides questions for children to answer about each story.
- Provides five Jewish stories for storytelling. 4-00
- Provides the names and authors of the children's books selected as the top 200 by Scholastic, with consultation from librarians. 12-99
Periodicals
Projects
- Provides a quiz, puzzles, and much more - written and drawn by children to help children enjoy learning through Charlotte's Web.
- Provides questions and opportunities to write about issues related to a book that the student is about to read. Can also be used during or after reading the book.
- Provides Reader's Theater Editions, multicultural stories that can be performed by children or simply read. 2-00
- Provides a summary of the book, Teacher from the Black Lagoon, and shows how it was used at the beginning of school to make students more comfortable. 1-00
Purchase Resources
- Searches a large inventory of books that may be purchased online. 12-99
- Searches a large inventory of books that may be purchased online. 12-99
- Searches a large inventory of books that may be purchased online. 12-99