Oh Boy! Children's Books

Oh Boy! Children's Books
An Internet Hotlist on Children's Lit

created by Vicky Reed
San Diego County Office of Education

Introduction
Looking for sites on Children's Books. Well you've come to the right place. You will find a plethora of links to information related to Children's Literature (both general and specific), Authors & Illustrators, Book Reviews, and a link to Oral Storytelling & Folklore sites.

The Internet Resources

CyberGuides - CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They have teacher-selected web sites and a rubrics, based on California Language Arts Content Standards. http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Knowledge Network Explorer - The Knowledge Network Explorer supports education by helping schools, libraries, and colleges acquire and effectively use Internet. Make sure you explore lessons and resources available on Blue Web'n and Web Quest Resources and the Filamentality site where you can create you own personal 'Hot Lists' for your students. http://www.kn.att.com/index.html
Language Arts Content Standards from California State Board of Education - Language Arts Content Standards from California State Board of Education just a mouse click away... http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/stand/sbestd.html
SCORE Language Arts Site - Language Arts Framework, Phonics Link and Teacher Resources chalk full of lessons, assessment info and other valuable links. http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cla.html
San Diego County Office of Education Book & Video Resources - Find out about SDCOE Library Sites, Links to California State Content Standards, other Hotlists and links. http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listsdcoelivi.html

Children's Lit - General Info

A List of Teacher's Guides from Simon & Schuster - Handy teaching guides that are printer friendly. These resources feature discussion questions and activities. http://www.simonsays.com/content/index.cfm?pid equals equals 523092&tab equals 22
Awards for Children's Books - This site has information about various awards and their origins, criteria, medal descriptions, and lists of books. http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section equals bookmediaawards
CBC Children's Book Council Web Site - The Children's Book Council (CBC) is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of children's books since 1945. http://www.cbcbooks.org/index.html
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - A site for those seeking more info on Children's Lit. Sign up for her monthly email newsletter.
Children's Literature Web Guide - Incredible site! Oodles of links....http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown
Deborah Ford's Site - Some of the BEST books listed by Deborah Ford a fabulous librarian. http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listbestboode.html
Fairrosa Cyber Library - cyber collection of materials found on the Web related to Children's Literature. Dragons, a page about Lewis Carroll, plus much more....http://www.fairrosa.info/
History of Children's Literature - Looking for some background information on the history of Children's Literature then here is a good starting point. This page also contains links to Copyright Resources on the WWW and more... http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/kayhp2.html
Literature & Language SITES for CHILDREN/TEACHERS/LIBRARIANS - Wonderful links! Compiled by the Children and Technology Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/lit.html#a
Picturing Books A Website About Picture Books - The sole purpose of this website is to promote picture books--in all their many facets. Includes info on: Using Picture Books,Picture Book Glossary, Timeline, Artistic Media and style and more... http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/
VANDERGRIFT'S CHILDREN'S LITERATURE PAGE LITERATURE PAGE - Fabulous information about children's literature is linked to articles and bibliographies. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/childlit.html

Authors & Illustrators

Marilee's List of Children's Author Links - This contains a selected list of authors go to Marilee's Home Page which has links to literature lesson plans and other teacher resources http://marilee.us/authors2.html
ALA author Web sites - American Library Association’s list of author site links. http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section equals greatwebsites&template equals /cfapps/gws/displaysection.cfm&sec equals 16
Author Illustrator Source - Find Published Authors or Illustrators who make School Visits listing provides biographical information, published books, description of the presentations made. http://www.author-illustr-source.com/
Children's Book Council Author Illustrator Archives - The CBC provides links below to authors and illustrators of children's books who are published by our member publishers and whose web pages showcase these books. http://www.cbcbooks.org/contacts/
Dan Gutman's Web Site - Information about Dan Gutman and his books. Book excerpts. Trivia info about Sports... http://www.dangutman.com/index.html
Edith Hope Fine's Web Site - Information about Edith Hope Fine, her books, ideas for young readers, Writers and artist, Grammer Patrol and more!
Gerald McDermott - Caldecott Award Winning Artist - Meet Gerald McDermott, this visually stunning page includes links to a wonderful bio, plus information about his Caldecott award winning books and his trickster series http://geraldmcdermott.com
Janet Stevens Web site - Author Illustrator Janet Stevens, has a great web site features: The story of her third grade Blue Jay Reading Group. Things she likes to draw (High Heels) Animals she likes to draw (Pigs and Cats) Follow particular pages through the creation process. A new Bear Page. http://www.janetstevens.com
Kathleen Krull Web Site - Author of the award-winning Lives of series Musicians, Writers, Artists, Athletes, Presidents, and brand-new Extraordinary Women. Look for extensive links to on-line resources about each famous person, trivia games to play, plus a list of 38 ideas for using biographies in the classroom. http://home.san.rr.com/kathleenkrull/
LEARNING ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATORS ILLUSTRATOR PAGES - More than five hundred links to author/illustrator sites are listed here. Contains an easy to use alphabetical index by authors or illustrators last names. Students can easily use this site. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/author.html
Online Author Scavenger Hunt - Send your students on an online author scavenger hunt. Use the author sites on this page to answer these questions. http://www.cyberbee.com/author.html
Pam Munoz Ryan's Web site - You'll find the stories behind her books, links, book reviews, fun information for students, and curriculum for educators. Have fun exploring! http://www.pammunozryan.com
Scoop - This site contains author and illustrator bio's, interviews, a great set of children's literature related activities and links to more sites. http://friend.ly.net/users/jorban/main.html
Welcome to the World of Peter Rabbit and his Friends - A delightful site for information on Beatrix Potter, her books and characters. Graphically gorgeous with very sweet tiny animations. http://www.peterrabbit.co.uk/templates/indexstart.cfm

Book Reviews

Amazon.com advanced search page - Search for Books and Find Reviews on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ats-query-page/107-3827425-5380509
Barnes & Noble Advanced Search Page - Free Reviews Online http://www.barnesandnoble.com/search.asp?userid equals UG0TfAaAEbequals
Native Americans - books-to-avoid - Reviews recently published books about Native Americans and objections to them. http://www.oyate.org/books-to-avoid/index.html
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - One of the nation's leading children's book review journals for school and public librarians. http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/

Online Text Sources & Book Activities

The Baldwin Project: Bringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children - This project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. We offer these resources at no charge and grant permission to individuals to print copies for personal and educational uses. http://www.mainlesson.com/index.shtml
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg Activities - - Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson is a book for ages 4 to 104. It is based on Walden written by Henry David Thoreau, a writer, naturalist, and surveyor in the 1800s. http://www.cyberbee.com/henryhikes/henry.html
Just a Mouse Click Away: An Internet Hotlist on Reference & Research - Links to web sites about Reference, Research, Project Ideas, and more… http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listreferencvi.html
Lori Mitchell's Different Just Like Me Web Site - Ideas to use with Lori's book. Links to 5 day lesson plan, free stuff to download including games to play coloring sheets, and a bookmark and more.http://www.differentjustlikeme.cc/
Reading Zone KidSpace@The Internet Public Library - Link to stories and learn more about the authors of favorite books. http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/rzn0000/
Storyline Online - Streaming video program featuring famous actors reading children's books aloud. Fabulous titles including Polar Express, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, Thank You Mr. Falker and many more.. Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas. http://www.storylineonline.net/

Storytelling & Folklore

Storytelling and Folklore Links - I've put together a 'hotlist' of storytelling & folklore sites. Make sure you visit Story Arts Online, an extraordinary site that is teacher friendly, and contains very short, easy to print short fables and stories. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/liststorytelvi.html
Surlalune fairytales - A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 47 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, and over 1,400 illustrations. http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/index.html

Content by Vicky Reed, vreed@sdcoe.k12.ca.us
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listchildrens13.html
Last revised Fri Jan 25 16:30:23 US/Pacific 2008