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- Authors of the week - by class - links to authors online
BookAdventure.com 
BrainHive.com -- sign in - type in 98112 in ZipCode, choose St. Joseph School and the use your BookAdventure username and password 
Kerpoof --Make your own storybook online - by Disney -
or drawing, picture, card, movie, etc.- Comic Creator - ReadWriteThink
- Storybird -need to register (free for librarians/teachers for classes)
TrueFlix - nonfiction fun
Username= sjoseph
Password= jaguars
if needed:
Username: stjoseph123 Password: books- Lesson plans
- Non Fiction books
- Read along chapter books
- Play lists for 30 minutes of fun
- Quizzes
- Videos with videos PDF list
- Online
stories with others to read and/or watch -
- Barnes and Noble Online Storytime - Kissing Hand - Hungry Caterpillar - Splish, Splat Cat - Ladybug girl at the beach - Charlie the ranch dog - Green eggs and ham - Pinkalicious - Strega Nona - Polar Express - Mitten - Where the Wild things are - Olivia - Alexander and the terrible horrible no good very bad day - Smash Crash - Fancy Nancy Bonjour Butterfly
- BookFlix (need SPL #) -- see PDF for list of books
- KOL Jr. stories - Animals, Arthur, Fairy Tales, Family and Rhyming - similar to Speakaboos.com
- Leading to Reading -RIF - toddler stories and preschool stories - including Snowy Day by Keats -- This is the tree (Baobab) -- Brown bear what do you see, by Martin (and others online)
- Listen and Read : Community - short (5 p.) online stories, mostly nonfiction - level A and B - Scholastic : fire fighters, librarians, pediatricians, polic officers, veterinarians, utility workers - also Animals tide pool, snow monkeys, insects, night animals, joey, frogs of world, arctic foxes and others (54 in all)
- LoudLit.org - classic stories read aloud - The Declaration of Independence - The Gettysburg Address - To build a fire (London) Pit and the Pendulum (Poe)
- Old
picture books online - digital vintage picture books - just
click to turn page and read
- Children's Library - digitized old children's books
- Starfall
- set of online books based on simple vowel sounds = Learn to read
- It's fun to read - next level
- I'm reading - folk tales, comics, Greek myths, Chinese fables, Fiction and Non Fiction
- Stories for Students -leveled nonfiction/true information about topics in polar regions - from Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears k-5 magazine
- Storyline Online - books read by famous actors: To be a drum, --Guiji, --Sebastian's roller skates, --Sophie's masterpiece, --Stellaluna, --No mirrors in Nana's house,--Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge, --Night I followed the dog, --Thank you Mr. Falker, --My rotten redheaded older brother, --Knots on a counting rope, --Brave Irene, --Bad case of stripes, --Private I. Guana, --Somebody loves you Mr. Hatch, --Polar Express, --Me and my cat,-- White socks only, --When Pigasso met Mootisse, --Romeow and Drooliet, --Enemy Pie
- Storytime - books read: Ferdinand, --Miss Rumpius, --Officer Buckle, --Strega Nona, --True story of Three Little Pigs--Duchess of Whimsy -- Elsie's Bird -- Ladybug girl at the beach -- Otis -- Easter Egg, by Brett, Listen to the wind --Night before Christmas -- Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (Winnie the Pooh) -- Ginger and Petunia, by Polacco -- PenguinGroup
- Sylvan Dell Publishing - Newton and Me - EBook - read online- and Astro the Sea Lion and Big Cat, Little Kitty with map, and Penguin Lady (counting and different kinds with map and info) and Skink's Tail with mapping coordinates activity at end
- Toon Book reader - easy graphic novels - ProfessorGarfield (in Spanish and French too)
- Tumblebooks -- now with videos PDF list
- Tumblebooks
- Awesome stories - stories on a variety of topics with audio and video clips included - primary sources
Awards: see also other lists - or these lists
- Caldecott
Award Winners (January) -- online
videos of several at New Hampshire Public Television
- Stone Soup, Why Mosquitoes buzz, Village of round an square houses, Strega Nona, Paperboy, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Where the Wild things are, Time of Wonder, Zin, Zin Zin, a violine, A story, a story, In the night kitchen, Duke Ellington, Doctor DeSoto, Officer Buckle, Goldilocks and the three bears, Make way for Ducklings, Drummer Hoff, John Henry, Mufaro's beautiful daughters, Rapunzel, Crow Boy, Millions of Cats, Andy and the lion, Amazing Bone, Blueberries for Sal
- Childrens
Literature Assembly - notable children's books k-8 in
thelanguage arts
- Coretta Scott King Awards (January)
- Cybils awards - Childrens' and YA Blogger's Literary awards (January)
- EB White Read Aloud - begun 2004 (April)
- Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Awards (May with nominees January)
- Golden Kite Awards - presented to children's book authors and artists by their peers- SBWI (March)
- Gryphon
Award -best books for K-4 (Feb)
- Horn Book (Boston Globe) Awards (chosen in June, celebrated in October)
- Michael
L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature (January)
- National Book Award Finalsits for Young Adults (November) see awards menu
Newbery Award Winners 2011 (January) Newbery ppt 2011 and 2012
- Hello
- It's the ALA phone call scenario 2011
- Call that changes everything - 2010, 2011, 2012 - PW
- Where were they when the call came - 2012
- Mock Newbery 2012
- Newbery books ranked - Allen County PL
- Newbery Challenge 1922 to present - blog and video trailers on Newbery winners Watch.Connect.Read
- Newbery Film Festival - 90 min. contest - James Kennedy
- 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)
Make your own photo slideshow at Animoto.
American Library Association awards also include
- Randolph Caldecott Medal
- Michael L. Printz Award - Young adult
- Coretta Scott King Awards-African American
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award - foreign
- Pura Belpré Awards - Latin American
- Robert F. Sibert Medal - non fiction
- Theodor Seuss Geisel Award - early reader
- YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
Nancy Pearl interviewing Newbery winners, when got phone call, etc. - ALA 2013- Orbis Pictus award for outstanding nonfiction - NCTE (January)
- Parents' choice awards (awarded in the fall) - also video, software, games
- Pura Belpré Award (awarded biennially)
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (January)
- Theodore Seuss Geisel award
- Hello
- It's the ALA phone call scenario 2011
- Banned book week - September 25-October 2, 2010
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 NEA
- 100 Top Children's novels - Fuse #8 Blog from School Library Journal 2010 with history of covers and links to literature guides, etc. -- link to PDF file
- 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
- Book Aunt - blog of great books
- 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
- 70 books to get boys reading - Ken Baker
- Almost can't miss sure shot books for boys - James Patterson Read Kiddo Read
- Books for boys - Michael Sullivan
- BoyReaderBlog
- 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
- Nancy Baxter - NonFiction Booktalker - lists of Books and Boys in PDF from 2007 and 2008
- ReaditLovedit -- for Boys - genres for each age level 10-16, Australian/classic
- ReadKiddoRead - James Patterson - dedicated to making kids readers for life
- Books
about girls - Morton Grove Library
- Strong
women characters - NY Public Library
- Best
Children's Books with strong femal characters - Amazon listmania
- Children's
Books/Central female character - FAQS.org
- Culturally Diverse books with strong female characters - St. Lawrence AAUW
- ReaditLovedit -- for girls genres for each age level 10-16, Australian/classic
- Strong
women characters - NY Public Library
- 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
- Children's Litreature Network.org - for adults who are passionate about encouraging kids to read.
- 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
- Classics list from Horn Book (PDF)
- Cynthia Leitich Smith Children's Literature resources - with lists by age and genre
- Digital Comic Museum - register for free and download public domain comic books
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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
- 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
- Kindergarden Canon - PDF -- list of 100 books - Michael Petrelli - EdExcellence.net
- Leveled
book lists --- Comparison
chart for reading levels -- OR -- comparison
chart for reading levels PDF
- 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
- Deshutes Public Library - great list of other libraries lists
- Hennepin Public Library
- 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
- Seattle Public Library Children's booklist
- Library of Congress - Lifelong Literacy - Rare Book collection - Secret Garden digitized online 1911 edition
- National Book Festival - Library of Congress - September each year
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Online stories
to be read online - list of links from Kids Domain
- Book Chook - links to UTube videos of books -- Goodnight moon, Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Where wild things are, Fox in socks
- 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
- HarperCollins videos of authors and book trailers: Blueberry Girl, by Gaiman - Where the Wild things are movie trailer
- Kennedy Center - with Storytime Online - Brothers of the knight -- Harlem: a poem -- Alexander and the terrible horrible no good day
- 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
- StoryPlace Pre-school Library - animated stories with words and songs
- Tess's Tree- first published online at Funbrain - about a girl's love for an old tree that needs to be cut down and her "funeral" service for it
- 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
- Old picture books online - digital vintage picture books - to read online-or download and print
- 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
- Super
Why -PBS Kids animated series teaches alphabet and spelling
(audio/video) along with reading story
- Outstanding books for the college bound - ALA
- Picture books for older readers - Richie's Picks
- Podcasts
- Booktalks quick and simple - Nancy Keane - complete list of
- 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
- Reading Rockets - find a book database - by age, genre, reading level, keyword
- Spaghetti Book Club - book reviews by kids for kids
- World in Fiction - contemporary and historical from our library
- 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 - nonfiction
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Jane Addams Peace Association
- 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 -- now Costa
Other lists
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