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Aesop's Fables. This online version of Aesop's Fables includes the full
public domain texts-638 fables. There are images from the Dore illustrations
and the beginnings of audio texts. http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
Aesop's Fables Read. Aesop's Fables, in two versions for each tale, all with
illustrations done by students in a computing art class.
http://www.umass.edu/acco/projects/aesop/
The Alice Fan Club. The characters in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice series
endure all these dilemmas-and more. This fan area is your chance to read all
about Alice and her friends, make some new friends of your own, and hear
from Phyllis Reynolds Naylor herself. http://www.simonsays.com/kids/alice/
American Girls Series. An American Girl is a unique current girls' series by
Valerie Tripp, Janet Beele Shaw, Connie Porter, Susan S. Adler, and Maxine
Schur. The series title is American Girls Collection. The American Girls
stories are told through the eyes of girls living in different time periods.
This site expands on the stories and has a club for fans of American Girls.
http://www.americangirl.com/
Animorphs Page. The home page for this popular paperback series of young
people with the capacity to morph into animals of great power in order to
fight alien enemies. Written by K. A. Applegate.
http://scholastic.com/animorphs/
The Arthur Page. For Arthur fans everywhere! This site is maintained by PBS
and features games and children's art. A very popular site for younger
children who love the character created by Marc Brown.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/
Baby-Sitters' Club Page. What's happening at the Baby-Sitters' Club? Visit
this site to learn about the characters and adventures.
http://www.scholastic.com/annmartin/bsc/index.htm
Berenstain Bears. The official Berenstain Bears site, includes activities
and lists of books.
http://www.berenstainbears.com
Betsy-Tacy Homepage. Maybe this Web page is the first you have ever heard of
the well-loved series about girls growing up in turn-of-the century
Minnesota.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/4859/
Children's Storybook Online. Read lots of exciting stories like "Round Bird
Can't Fly," "Grow Your Own Gargoyle," and "The Wumpalump."
http://www.magickeys.com/books/
Curious George. The Curious George Forum is a great way to meet and share
stories with other George fans, and don't miss the tribute to the late
Margret Rey.
http://www.curiousgeorge.com/
Disney Book Factory. Interactive books with your favorite Disney characters.
A graphics-heavy site. http://www.disney.go.com/DisneyBooks/
The End of the Rainbow. The entire novel written by Bjarne Reuter and
translated by Anthea Bell is available online through the publisher's home
page.
http://www.penguinputnam.com/yreaders/index.htm
The Golem. This site explores the Caldecott winner Golem by David Wisniewski
by offering a great deal of additional information on this legend.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/golem.html
The Goosebumps Page. Enter if you dare! Meet R. L. Stine and the many tales
he has created for you in this scary place.
http://place.scholastic.com/Goosebumps/index.htm
Herg and TinTin. For intense lovers of Tintin and his adventures this site
contains links to a large number of Tintin sites around the world.
http://www.du.edu/~tomills/tintin.html
Kino's Storytime. And this is the place to visit if you like children's
books, because it has THE BEST BOOKS with eye-popping pictures and terrific
stories.
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/storytime/
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. A small but useful site on the
beginning of the story of Narnia by C. S. Lewis.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/1409/
Magic School Bus Page. What are Ms. Frizzle and her class doing now? This
site encourages you to work with many aspects of the Magic School Bus
Adventures.
http://scholastic.com/MagicSchoolBus/index.htm
My Little House on the Prairie Home Page. From Jennifer Slegg, a fan of
Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, this site explores a classic series of books
by Wilder.
http://vvv.com/~jenslegg/index.htm
The Page at Pooh Corner. This page is dedicated to the wonderful stories
found in the books Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, written by
A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard.
http://chaos.trxinc.com/jmilne/Pooh/index.html
The Peter Rabbit Web Site. The official and definitive site on the world of
Beatrix Potter. Potter's favorite characters and other aspects of her work
can be viewed at a wide selection of art exhibitions, theatrical
performances, displays, and local events. http://www.peterrabbit.co.uk/
The Phantom Tollbooth. Information on this favorite book by Norman Juster,
including bibliographies and other things.
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bcohen/phantom_tollbooth/
Random House Kids. Explore online with your favorite books and characters;
you can even submit your own book reviews for online publication.
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/
Reading Rainbow. You can find good books, discover information on your
favorite show, and even explore exciting segments in more detail.
http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/kids/mainfs.htm
Seamonkey Oz Home Page. Here you will find Oz-related links, philosophical
musings, creative writing, and lots of artwork by the inhabitants of Oz
created by Baum. Many of these Ozians are very young, but they have e-mail
addresses and would like to hear from you.
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/oz/
Seussville. The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the rest
of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in
cyberspace. You can play games, chat with the Cat in the Hat, win prizes,
find out about new Dr. Seuss books and CD-ROMs, and much, much more!
http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/
Treasure Island. An informative site very neatly designed for children by a
librarian in Britain. Learn all you can about this novel by Robert Louis
Stevenson. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/treasure/
The Winnie the Pooh Collection. Accessible through the publisher's home
page, this official site features several activities to print out, including
the Winnie-the-Pooh Maze. http://www.penguinputnam.com/yreaders/index.htm
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Web Site. Oz first started as a book by Frank L.
Baum, then a series of books. The incredible world of Oz is explored in
these pages. There is much to know about this wonderful land, and on these
pages you will be told quite a lot about it, and helped to find out where to
find out more. http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/index.html
Expanding the Classics
Louisa May Alcott Web. Who was born on the 333rd day of the year, has had
books on the bestseller list more than 100 years after her death, and has a
crater on Venus named after her? Excellent collection of resources on this
treasured author of Little Women. http://www.coppersky.com/louisa/
Jane Austen Information Page. An electronic text of Pride and Prejudice is
available, as is information and links to other sites with details on Jane
Austen.
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo.html
The Bront Web Site. This site is from Japan, and offers excellent
photographs and links to all kinds of resources on the Bront family.
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte.html
Julius Caesar. This paraphrase of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar is
intended as a supplement to the original work. Read it along with the
original as an aid to comprehension. This includes a number of links to
relevant materials.
http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/caesar/
The Camelot Project. The Main Menu lists Arthurian characters, symbols, and
sites. You may move from any highlighted element to a submenu of basic
information, texts, images, and a bibliography about that subject.
http://www.ub.rug.nl/camelot/
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Welcome to the Web's first
edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The original
electronic source for this server is the Complete Mobytm Shakespeare, which
is freely available online. There may be differences between a copy of a
play that you happen to be familiar with and the one of this server: Don't
worry, this is a very common phenomenon in the world(s) of Shakespeare and
Shakespearian scholarship. Includes a search engine.
http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Stephen Crane: Man, Myth, and Legend. This site contains information on the
author of The Red Badge of Courage, including access to an online text and
an audio introduction to the book.
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Crane/crane.html
The Charles Dickens Information Page. A very complete site from Japan on
Charles Dickens, including links to a large number of additional resources.
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
Project Bartleby. Featuring 48 authors, this online literature project
concentrates mainly on poetry and includes works by Robert Frost, William
Shakespeare, and Walt Whitman as well as poetry anthologies. Authors such as
F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. E. B. DuBois, Carl Sandburg, and, of course, Herman
Melville also are represented. http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne. One of the largest sites on Hawthorne, including
resources and links to his life and his work. Also has links to electronic
texts of his books. http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/hawthorne.htm
Invisible Ink: Books on Ghosts & Hauntings. Read reviews and excerpts of
more than 500 ghostly titles from around the world. Learn how to write your
own ghost book. Educator pages feature activities using ghost books, where
to find ghost stories, and a bibliography. http://www.invink.com
KidzPage. Opportunity to read poetry from Ogden Nash and other famous poets.
Contributions from young readers, too!
http://web.aimnet.com/~veeceet/kids/kidzpage.html
The Many Faces of Alice. A fully illustrated (by students at the Dalton
School in New York), full-text version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland, accompanied by student essays and teaching packet.
http://www.dalton.org/ms/alice/
To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now. A site on this work of Harper Lee
created by students for a ThinkQuest Project. Most useful for the study of
the novel and the film.
http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/
Rip Van Winkle: Past and Present. This project looks at how Washington
Irving used historical events in his writings. The story concentrated on is
Rip Van Winkle. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~maria/irving/eng.htm
Robin Hood Project. The Robin Hood Project is designed to make available in
electronic format a database of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic
information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales.
http://www.ub.rug.nl/camelot/rh/rhhome.htm
Shakespeare and the Globe. This Web site provides information on the
reconstruction of the Globe and an archive on Shakespeare in Performance at
the Globe, featuring illustrations and texts on the building of the original
Globe, staging at the original Globe, and staging at the New Globe. Check
their Quick Guide for help in navigation.
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ln/Globe/home.html
Snow White. This site examines the Snow White story in text and images over
the last 100 years. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/snowwhite.html
Mark Twain from about.com. A thoroughly long list of links to Twain and more
Twain.
http://marktwain.about.com/arts/marktwain/index.htm
Mark Twain and His Times. This site focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his
works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and
appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students, and teachers
to see what Mark Twain and others from his times said about each other, in
ways that can speak to us today. http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/
Tales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World. An archive of
folk and fairy tales. The stories in this collection represent a small
sampling of the rich storytelling art that is the common heritage of
humanity. http://members.xoom.com/darsie/tales/index.html |
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