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- Authors of the week - by class - links to authors online
- BookAdventure.com
- 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)
- 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 - Mittne - 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 #)
- 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 - short online stories, mostly nonfiction - Scholastic
- 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--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)
- Toon Book reader - easy graphic novels - ProfessorGarfield (in Spanish and French too)
- Tumblebooks
- Awesome stories - stories on a variety of topics with audio and video clips included - primary sources
- Kideos - online videos for kids - includes books
Awards: see also other lists - or these lists
- Caldecott Award Winners (January)
- 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)
- 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 - Hello - It's the ALA phone call scenario 2011
- Mock Newbery 2012
- Newbery books ranked - Allen County PL
- 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)
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
- 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
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Deshutes Public Library - great list of other libraries lists
- 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
- Library of Congress - Lifelong Literacy - Rare Book collection - Secret Garden digitized online 1911 edition
- Movie
adaptations of books -- lists and reasons
- Best children's books to movies -- School Library Journal article from FUSE #8 blog -- with trailers
- Choice Literacy - top ten adaptations and reasons to use 9/2009
- Top 21 children's books made into film (2006)
- National Book Festival - Library of Congress - September each year - Meet the authors 2007/2008
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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)
- Book Chook - links to UTube videos of books -- Goodnihgt 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
- 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
- Ripple.com - online software/ability to read books online $$ - article about in Publishers Weekly
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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