ALA Great Sites for Kids - A website searching tool that may be
searched by subject for the best websites in a particular category.
A useful site that is reviewed by librarians and updated regularly
reducing the number of dead links.
PBS - Excellent
resource in general for teachers and students, however the site also
offers a great resource for librarians. Click on "Library Media"
and scroll down to "Media Literacy". Here you can find an
interactive quiz, research, and activity ideas. Below are some
quick links to their topics for those who may be unfamilar with Media
Studies and all may be found on PBS's website
Nat'l
Info. Lit. Standards - Directly links to nationally recognized
information literacy standards from the Internation Society for
Technology Education.
Scholastic Author Study Site - A great site to begin your author
studies is the Scholastic Author Study Center. Information includes
the author's place of birth, home, selection of awards, favorite
genres and an interview students can read.
Children's
Literature Author Biographies - Another site that provides
information on a large number of children's authors is the site called
"Children's Literature". The site includes a short biography about the
author and a bibliography of their works. Founded in 1993 by a
librarian Marilyn Courtot, the site includes reviews about many
children's books written by their diverse staff.
Children's
Literature Web Guide Authors and Illustrators on the Web - The
Children's Literature Web Guide works to gather together and
categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books
for Children and Young Adults. Organizations cooperate to update the
information and add resources to the guide. The following is a linke
to the author and illustrator study guide but a detour into the site's
other resources may be helpful as well.
Author Study Resources for the Richard Montgomery Cluster Schools
- Another helpful site is the "Author Study Resources The Richard
Montgomery Cluster Schools" which offers author studies divided by
grade level. The site lists several sites for the authors including
their professional websites and other supplementary sites. Helpful
when selecting author studies for a variety of reading abilities.
Children's Book Council - The Children’s Book Council is a
non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and
the use and enjoyment of children’s books, and is the official sponsor
of Young People’s Poetry Week and Children’s Book Week each year. The
Council’s Members include U.S. publishers and packagers of trade books
for children and young adults. The site includes a "Meet the
Author/Illustrator" section that provides autobiographical material
for each author. The material seems more personal than some of the
usual interviews with the author and older students may enjoy the
insights more.
Author Yellow Pages -
The Author Yellow Pages have links to thousands of authors.
For overall coverage of children's book illustrators the list
provided
here may be helpful.
The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the
American Library Association, awards annually by to the artist of the
most distinguished American picture book for children. The Caldecott
Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator
Randolph Caldecott.
Scholastic provides an Internet Field Trip about the Caldecott Medal
and offers links to previous and current Caldecott winners including
Tomie dePaola and Chris Van Allsburgs work.
Steve and Diana Kimpton created the site to increase awareness about
children's books written and illustrator by those in the U.K. Lots of
links to illustrator sites and alphabetical organization aids in
navigation.
The Fairrosa Cyber Library was created by Roxanne Hsu Feldman's as a
personal collection that she loves to share. The site has nice
features that give students excitement and is well organized. Features
a lot of links to illustrator sites.
