Teacher's resource note: many authors and illustrators have included activities for teachers and readers as part of their site. So check out your favorite ones and see if they have something for you. Also check out the Kid's Stuff for classroom activities.

http://www.ala.org/BookLinks/ Book Links: Connecting Books, Libraries, and Classrooms: provides a useful cumulative index which covers 1990 - 1997

www.CBCBooks.org/ The Children's Book Council: good reference articles for parents and teachers on choosing a child's book by age, abilities or interest, and more. Many source items for sell.

gopher://lib.nmsu.edu:70/11/.subjects/Education/.childlit Children's Literature Gopher Site may help you find resources not on the Web. Includes conferences, bibliographies, journal abstracts, links to electronic children's classics, links to other gopher sites, and much more. And since it is a gopher site, it is fast and well organized. Maintained at the University of New Mexico,

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ Children's Literature Web Guide the educational link for literature from Calgary: features award winners, bestsellers, discussion boards, links to authors, illustrators, publishers, with resources for parents, teachers, storytellers.

http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/ CLWG Doucette Index: An Index to Books and Websites with teaching suggestions. Input the author, title or illustrator of a children's book to get resources.

http://www.classroom.com/ Classroom Connect's Grade School Class Web Listings.

http://www.educationindex.com/ Education Index; "your guide to the best and most useful education-related sites on the Web." Many resources, well indexed, excellent variety.

http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Software/publishers.html Educational Software Publishers listing with links. Got a software question go to the source, and hopefully the company's site will give you the answer or a trail version to try out.

http://www.carolhurst.com Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Web Site, for teaching ideas, one of the best sites on the Web. Teaching ideas are broken into groups by grade level, theme, or subject. Subscribe online to her Newsletter. Her author reviews though limited in number are excellent springboards for the classroom.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html Internet School Library Media Center: a well indexed, growing number of sites of interest to librarians and teachers.  Everything from book awards to art ed to voed.    Provided by Inez Ramsey, a Professor of Library Science at James Madison University.  This award winning site truely is the Media Center for librarians and teachers. Meta site.

http://www.unm.edu/~lhendr/ Linnea Hendrickson's Online Book: Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism. Also available there, are the valuable in print resources that were used.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/   Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. Site listings for curriculum and teacher growth.

http://www.snowcrest.net/kidpower/authors.html School Author Visits: children's book authors who visit schools

http://www.studyweb.com  Study Web "Focusing the Web for education."  Easy to locate your topic of interest among the 73,000 sites, with concise descriptions of each site and rating the visual content and appropriate grade level. Broad topics range from Agriculture to Writing and Writers, with a wide selection inbetween.  Well worth a visit for the teacher, student or parent.

http://www.penguinputnam.com/academic/classics/index.htm Penguin Books Teacher Guides are available for select titles for the upper grades, young adults. Also link is available for Reading Groups.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/schoolhouse/   Virtual Schoolhouse, "A Meta-Library of K-12 Internet Links" Try their Library, Art Room and Virtual Field Trips.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Voice of the Shuttle woven by Alan Liu of UC Santa Barbara, once there go to Teaching Resources Page. Is a collection of general teaching resources, educational journals, syllabus archives, with the emphasis being on higher education.

http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html Web 66-School Web Site Listings.

http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/ Web Sites And Resources For Teachers, Professors Vicki and Richard Sharp at California state University, Northridge have "collected sites and resources from the Internet for teachers to use in their classrooms. These sites are entertaining, useful, informative, and fun. They range from lesson plans, creative classroom projects, interactive activities, visits to museums, trips around the U.S.A. and other countries, and "Just for Kids" sites."

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