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- Book Hive - Guide to children's books categorized by genre and reading level. Includes coloring activities, a quiz, and story telling.
www.bookhive.org
- By the Book - Children's book news, reviews, and author interviews.
www.geocities.com/juliadurango
- Cool-Reads - Hundreds of book reviews for 10-15 year-olds as written by 10-15 year-old reviewers.
www.cool-reads.co.uk
- Cricket Country - A literary magazine for babies to age 14. Includes poems, stories (usually with an ethnic theme), and a crossbird puzzle.
www.cricketmag.com/cgi-bin/cricket.cgi?tpl=index
- Drew's Notes - A summary of Peter Jenkins' book "A Walk Across America" with character descriptions.
members.aol.com/andrewis/drewsnotes1.html
- Exploring Literature - Knowledge Explorer Centre - Reviews, commentary, and tools for exploring classic and contemporary literature. Includes a detailed look at literary criticism.
www.shared-visions.com/explore/literature/lithome.htm
- Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales - Lots of silly poems, stories, and songs from Bob Tucker.
www.night.net/tucker
- Introduction to Detective Stories - Goes over traits of detective stories and key elements such as suspense. Also provides sample passages to understand how a detective story is written.
lhsdetectivestory.homestead.com/Index~ns4.html
- Just For Kids Who Love Books - Provides links to sites about favorite books and authors, including book reviews written by kids. Site is updated weekly.
www3.sympatico.ca/alanbrown
- Kids Place Reading Scene - An exciting online book group for grades 1-8, reviewing a new book every 2 months and giving the opportunity to answer posted questions, and see others answers also.
www.eduplace.com/readingscene/index.html
- Kids Reads - Offers reading guides for a variety of book. Also contests, author interviews biographical information.
www.kidsreads.com
- Kids' Corner - Kids' Corner, featuring the stories of Beatrix Potter in text, RealAudio, streaming media, and multimedia slideshows
wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm
- Literature Classics - Essays, links and analysis on classic literature authors and works, resources, reviews, prizes for submissions, and a growing literature community with forums, chat, and interactive features.
www.LiteratureClassics.com
- Meghan's Fairy Tale Pages - Traditional classic fairytales, poetry, and create a story.
members.tripod.com/meghansfairytale
- Night World: The Place for L. J. Smith Fans - Information and facts about LJ Smith and about her books. Includes mailing list in which you can talk about her books and related topics.
www.nightworld.net
- Ongoing Tales From the Past - Old time stories, fairy tales, and poems brought to new life with electronic enhancement make fun reading for all ages; new postings monthly.
www.ongoing-tales.com/SERIALS/oldtime
- Playtime Canada - Animated stories, games, and coloring for children.
www.playtimecanada.com
- PrimaryGames.com Bookshelf - Read interactive online stories. Stories are easy to read, perfect for younger children.
www.primarygames.com/storybooks/bookshelf.htm
- Reading Rants - Out of the ordinary teen booklists listed by subjects like Graphic Fantastic, Deadheads and Moshpits, Reality Bytes, and Slacker Fiction.
www.tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen/index.html
- Spaghetti Book Club - Collection of children's book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids. Read posted reviews or submit new ones.
www.spaghettibookclub.org
- Storybook Online Network - A Storytelling Community - A storytelling community for children and parents with creative writing, illustrated stories, and interactive activities. Children can read, hear, see, and create stories before them. Stories are available for many different levels of readers. The site offers audio and video content
www.storybookonline.net/main.html
- Teens @ Random - Publishers web site dedicated to teen readers. Includes thousands of books for teens, plus excerpts, reading group guides, contests, and author bios.
www.randomhouse.com/teens
- The Audrey Wood Clubhouse - Award-winning children's book author and a group of illustrators explain how children's books are created.
www.audreywood.com
- The Betsy-Tacy Homepage - Fan of the author's turn-of-the-century "Betsy-Tacy" series offers quotes from the books, a biography of Lovelace, trivia, and pictures.
www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/4859/index.html
- The Fairy Houses Series - Learn how to build a fairy house out of natural materials, color a picture, and see how other children have created fairy communities.
www.fairyhouses.com/fairy_houses_series.htm
- The Teen Times - Book lists and summaries for teens on just about everything, listed by catagories of reading subject.
www.geocities.com/teen_txs/intro.html
- The Web Popper Tales - Online stories for ages 3-7 with audio animated stories read by the authors, complete with printable stories to keep and read.
www.web-pop.com/bookpopchooser.html
- Welcome to MightyBook.com - An interactive flash site for ages 2-12 with read aloud books, video song books, vocabulary games and puzzles, a dictionary and thesaurus, and much more.
www.mightybook.com
- Welcome to Seussville - Features games based on books. Includes a storymaker.
www.seussville.com
- Scholastic Kids - Scholastic Books interactive pages where kids can play with their favorite book characters, read about new books, and see software reviews; links for parents with advice on helping with homework, and keeping schedules; and a section for teachers including a homeroom homepage.
www.scholastic.com/kids/home_flash.asp
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