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Library
catalog -- | For
a list of books on a specific DRA level, type in DRA plus the number,
with no spaces, and click on KEYWORD, ie. DRA24 |
- Authors of the week - by class - links to authors online
- Genre of the month
- Monthly picture book authors (K, 1, 2) and links to websites
- Online
stories to read and/or watch -
- BookFlix (need SPL #)
- KOL Jr. stories - Animals, Arthur, Fairy Tales, Family and Rhyming
- Leading to Reading -RIF - stories and stories
- Old picture books online - digital vintage picture books - just click to turn page and read
- Starfall
- Storyline Online
- Tumblebooks
- Scholastic Book Fairs featured author videos
Awards: see also other lists - or these lists
- Caldecott
Award Winners 2009
(January)
- Coretta
Scott King Awards 2009(January)
- Cybils awards - winners 2007- Childrens' and YA Blogger's Literary awards (Feb)
- Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Awards 2008 (May)
- Gryphon
Award 2008 -best books for K-4 (Feb)
- Horn Book (Boston Globe) Awards 2008 (chosen in June, celebrated in October)
- Michael
L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature 2009
- National
Book Award Finalsits for Young Adults 2008 (November)
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- Newbery
Award Winners 2009 (January)
- for the most "distinguished
contribution to American literature for children"
- Mock Newbery 2009
- Newbery books ranked - Allen County PL
- Survey results on most read - Fairrosa Cyber Library (January)
- Teaching units on - Literature Ladders
- Thoughts
on what wins Newbery awards
- Has the Newbery lost its way (SLJ)
- Are Newbery winners the new Not to Read list? (LA Times)
- Newbery medal weathering stiff challenges (Scripps News)
- Newbery may dampen kids' reading (Washington Post)
- Parents'
choice awards (awarded in the fall) - also
video, software, games
- Books 2008 fiction, historical fiction, picture books, non fiction
- Pura Belpré Award 2008 (awarded biennially)
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction 2009
- Theodore Seuss Geisel award 2008
Banned book week - September 25-29
Books for the Beginning of School or Beginning School Books
Lists of Authors and Books - list of links to authors and illustrators online
- 100 Best Books for children - from National Education Association
- One Hundred Best Books for children - TeachersFirst
- BestKidsBookSite.com - with lists by themes, holidays, etc
- Between the Lions Get wild about Reading (PBS) with stories, songs, things to print
- Bilingual books/stories online
- BookHive -"your guide to children's literature" reviews, genres, chapter books
- BookNuts Reading Club created just for kids where they can talk about the books they have read.
- Books
for boys, books for girls various links - About.com
- Almost can't miss sure shot books for boys - James Patterson Read Kiddo Read
- Books for boys - Michael Sullivan
- BoysRead.org - Best books
- Getting boys to read.com
- Good books for older boys ---- good series for older boys -- Boston Public Library
- Great books for boys - KidsRead good list
- Guys Read - Jon Scieszka
- Books for girls
- Children'sAuthors and Illustrators -author's web sites, book activities, lesson plans - Kenesaw.edu
- Children's Literature.com - author birthday lists, book awards lists, age appropriate lists with current BookSense Bestsellars - popular books
- Children's Literature Navigator Internet resources for librarians, parents, teachers, and children
- Childrens' Picture Book database searchable by subject - abstracts of over 4500 children's picture books
- Children's storybooks Online- fun stories to read online, illustrated, by aged level
- Chinaberry - online catalog of books and treasures for the whole family
- Cynthia Leitich Smith Children's Literature resources - with lists by age and genre
- Digitized
books online
- International Children's Digital Library digitized picture books from 27 of world's cultures - some in English, some in language of country
- Literature for Children - digitized 554 treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950 - PDF files
- StoryNory.com
- iPod ready stories for children - (no pictures)
- Eager Readers.com - good title for all ages - by subject groups "cream of the crop"
- Gifted readers - Hoagies' Gifted Education page
- Guys Read
- Home2School - with searchable lists by grade level and subject - but need to register
- International Children's Digital Library digitized picture books from 27 of world's cultures - some in English, some in language of country
- Kids Bookshelf reviews, recipes, contests,etc.
- Kidsbooks.com
- KidsRead.com reviews, list of series books, plus info on Book Clubs for kids with reading guides
- Kid's top 100 -NEA and Read Across America
- Leveled
book lists --- Comparison
chart for reading levels
- Fiction guided reading selection - by DRA and Fountas and Pinnell
- Find-a-book lexile leveled searchable database
- Leveled books list - with Fountas and Pinnell levels
- Leveled Reading Systems - Scholastic explanation - their system to DRA and Lexile
- Lexile
leveled searchable database -- with its
Find-a-Book website
- PALS Book level equivalencies - with links to book titles
- Picture books leveled - Portland Public School searchable
- Publishers
with leveled books
- Scholastic
- Teacher Book Wizard - search for books at right levels for child
- Libraries
with good books lists
- Allen County Public Library - alphabetical subject -includes long list of Hoosier award nominees
- Hennepin Public Library
- Highland Park Library - Super Books for All Ages - by grade, then genre
- King County Library - scroll down for genre, age and grade level
- Logan
Library - great list by age, grade, genre, types
- MidContinent PL - with list of all series books
- Monroe County Library - lists by topics
- Multnomah - by grade, then genre
- Scottsdale Public library - by grade, by genre
- Seattle Public Library Chilren's booklist
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Online stories
to be read online - list of links from Kids Domain
- Big Universe.com - fiction and nonfiction - search by age and theme - can create own and keep lists (no audio)
- BookFlix - (need Seattle Public Library card #) - audio and video of fiction books paired with nonfiction books
- Children's Storybooks Online - MagicKeys.com
- Electronic books and online reading - Teachers Tap - long list
- Fimbles - Read A story - BBC.Co.UK
- Old picture books online - digital vintage picture books - to read online-or download and print
- Online Children's stories
- Online
talking stories
- Aesop fables (4) animated
- Starfall - learn to read online, simple early reading activities
- Storyline Online - great picturebooks read online by famous people
- Story Hour - simple stories pictured online
- StoryPlace Pre-school Library - animated stories with words and songs
- Tumblebooks -- Seattle Public Library tumblebooks storybooks online audio and video
- Digitized
books online
- International Children's Digital Library digitized picture books from 27 of world's cultures - some in English, some in language of country
- Literature for Children - digitized 554 treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950 - PDF files
- downloadabled
-- also available from the public library -
Seattle Public and King
County Library
- cost $ - iPod audiobooks [search bottom left] and Audible.com) and Kids.Audible.com
- StoryNory.com - iPod ready stories for children - new one each week
- Lit2Go - free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 - classics, public domain
- Pinky Dinky Doo - Noggin channel character has stories with "big new word" and printable pictures
- Super
Why -PBS Kids animated series teaches alphabet and spelling
(audio/video) along with reading story
- Outstanding books for the college bound - ALA
- Podcasts
- Childrensbookradio.com - interviews with authors and reviews of books
- Just one more book.com - weekly reviews from a coffee shop
- Sounds from the Forest - TheEdgeoftheForest.com - monthly children's literature online
- Poems about reading
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Authors' Names
- Reading Rainbow PBS list of books, and those similar, with brief reviews
- Reading Rockets - find a book database - by age, genre, reading level, keyword
- Seeds of Compassion list of books for parents to read to their children on such topics (pdf file)
- World in Fiction - contemporary and historical from our library
Other
Notable and Award books
complete list or see LiteratureAwards.com
- Aesop award - American Folklore Society
- Association for Library Services to children (ALSC - part of ALA)
- Batchelder Award for Children's books in translation
- Boston Globe - Horn Book Winners
- Carnegie and Kate Greenway awards (British-announced in May)
- Edgar Allan Poe mystery awards - from MysteryWriters.org
- Evergreen Young Adult Book Awards
- Ezra Jack Keats Award for new writer and new illustrator (April)
- Giverny Award best children's science book
- Sasquatch Reading Awards (WLMA)
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
- Young Reader's Choice Awards (PNLA)
- Washington Children's Choice Picture Books
- Whitbread Award for Children's Book of the Year
Other lists
- Booklist Editor's Choice
- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
- Children's Literature.com - with current BookSense Bestsellars - popular books
- International Reading Association "Choice" booklists
- Literature Awards.com "Literature Awards: Young adult, childrens literature awards, fiction, non-fiction, biography, poetry, science fiction, mystery and horror Literature Awards
- School Library Journal's Best Books
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