Interrelationships Between Literature And Other Arts And Disciplines Library Association's Children's and young adult Round Table and literature, or Science and literature to discover a wealth of specific ideas for http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/makingmeaning/makingmeaning/disciplines
MIRAGe Readers' Advisory Links Page Useful links to the wide variety of Readers' Advisory sources available on the internet. Quite extensive.Category Reference Libraries User Services Readers Advisory Fiction Fantasy Horror young adult Resources Book List of literature ElectronicDiscussion Groups Searchable bulletin boards dedicated to specific topics are http://www.prairienet.org/mirage/ra.html
Extractions: Here are useful links to the wide variety of Readers' Advisory sources available on the internet. As the internet is dynamic, ever-changing, we cannot provide a comprehensive list. Rather, we are presenting starting points for your exploration, with some representative, not definitive links. Check out our "Search Engines" page. You'll find navigational aids to help you discover additional and new sites. Know about a great Readers' Advisory site not listed below? Please recommend it to us! Reader's Advisory on the Internet A program presented by Roberta S. Johnson, Morton Grove (IL) Public Library at the American Library Association annual meeting, June 1997. What people are reading Internet Public Library (University of MI) Reader's Services Morton Grove (IL) Public Library Reader's Services Pages Rochester Hills (MI) Public Library Readers' Advisory Services Bloomingdale (IL) Public Library Book news and links Allen County (IN) Public Library Readers' Advisory - Fiction Flint (MI) Public Library Good Reads Normal (IL) Public Library.
HDFS 240 - Authors & Illustrators children's picture books and young adult novels and interested in the creators ofchildren's literature. Internet Sites Children's and young adults' authors http://www.lib.iastate.edu/commons/hdfs240/resources/authors.html
Extractions: The best place to start! Contains articles on authors and/or illustrators of children's books. Each volume is arranged alphabetically by author and there is a cumulative index in each volume. Most entries are less than a page in length, but each volume has longer articles (8-9 pages) on more important authors and/or illustrators. There are now over 100 volumes in this series. Web Authors and Illustrators
Homework Helpers - Literature and young adult authors and illustrators as well as many adult authors commonlyread by young adults. NLA Index to Australian literature on the Internet. http://www.canterbury.nsw.gov.au/library/homezone/literature.htm
Extractions: Literature Australian Authors and Illustrators http://www.home.gil.com.au/~cbcqld/authors.htm This is a list of official web sites of authors who have had books entered for the Children's Book of the Year Awards. AusLit- Australian Literature Gateway http://www.austlit.edu.au/ AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway provides authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works - published in a range of print and electronic sources - and on more than 60 000 Australian authors and literary organisations, from 1780 to the present day. Australian Literature on the Internet http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/litsites.html
Extractions: From The New York Public Library, this list is a great find for people looking for great picture books to share with young readers. Classics like "Blueberries for Sal", "Bread and Jam for Frances" and "The Carrot Seed" are here, as well as books by current popular authors like Judith Viorst and William Steig. Aesop´s Fables. This online collection of Aesop's Fables includes over 655 fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are also 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen with 209 Grimm's Fairy Tales coming soon. Audio narrations and pictures of some of the fables are included. Bookhive: Children's Book Reviews.
Literature including picture books, children's chapter books, young adult titles and booksfor adult readers. authors Series (found in the literature Resource Center http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/literatu.htm
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Research By Subject: Children's Literature specific Journals available fulltext online Children's literature in young adult,Z718.5 .V6, SABIO catalog record Carol Hurst's Children's literature Website. http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/sst/ed/guide/childrenspath.html
BPL - Literary Resources by the Reference and adult Services Division authors series, Popular Genre literature,and Shakespeare. and biographical sketches on specific authors can be http://www.bpl.org/central/adult/litresources.htm
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ALAN Review - Winter 2000 Volume 27, Number 2 Do you intentionally use multicultural young adult novels in Do you have a specificunit/lesson Multicultural literature authors are underrepresented in the http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter00/gill.html
Extractions: University Courses In a 1998 NCTE publication, United In Diversity: Using Young Adult Multicultural Literature In The Classroom (Jean Brown and Elaine Stephens, editors) Ted Hipple of the University of Tennessee professed to being a "pooper" about multicultural literature. In his chapter, "Puzzlements from a Pooper; on Much Confusion about 'Multicultural'," Hipple explained that he was confused about what makes a novel multicultural. Does multicultural literature include all cultures, or is it predominately a movement to include racial and ethnic minorities in the literary canon? He is not alone in his questioning, especially among those teaching young adult literature at the university level. According to research published in The ALAN Review by Melissa Comer ( ), professors teaching young adult literature (YAL) believe that multicultural literature is important. In her dissertation
BookZone - Literary Leaps -- Writers' Information Our specific target book marketing on the web yields tremendous related links, goto Children young adult, Fiction literature, Parenting Family http://www.literaryleaps.com/leapaisle.cfm?aislenumber=64
Latino/Latina Literature Latino/Latina literature Guide picks. A collection of information about contemporaryLatino and Latina authors, with an emphasis on specific authors and http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/latinolatina/
Litlinks related to books for children and young adults. a lot of interesting information aboutpopular adult reading and links to other literature related WWW sites http://www.plc.vic.edu.au/Library/Literature/litlinks.htm
Extractions: The purpose of this page is to provide links to quality literature sites for the students at PLC to use in their studies as well as for their pleasure. Children's and Young Adult's Literature sites Australian Literature sites Online Literary Magazines Fiction Genres ... General Literature sites Children's and Young Adult's Literature sites KidLit This commercial site was designed especially for children and adults interested in children's literature. It provides a good selection of literature and art for children of various ages and offers children the opportunity to see their work published on the Web. The Children's Literature Web Guide This site, developed at the University of Calgary, Canada, is an excellent starting off point for exploring Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Tell me More! Information about children's authors, illustrators and their books is provided at this site. Children's Literature This site's mission is to facilitate literacy through the love of reading. This monthly newsletter contains reviews of recent children's publications which are often grouped in themes. World of Reading Book reviews by children for children can be found at this site along with a list of reading and writing sites.
Extractions: Young Adult Authors Young Adult Literature Book Discussion Guides Lesson Plans ... PRACTICE TESTS Ocean County Librarys BEST RESOURCE for middle school literature is our expert young adult librarian staff. If you need a special genre booklist or a recommendation for an appropriate title, you can email your request to Ocean County Librarys Ask a Librarian link. Check our library catalog under these subject headings for resources on young adult literature; TeenagersBooks and Reading Young Adult LiteratureBibliography MulticulturalismBibliography MinoritiesBibliography Best BooksFiction ChildrenBooks and reading ChildrenBibliography Young Adult Authors Yahoo! Do you need information about an author? Or would you like your students to learn about an author from the authors own website? This link on Yahoo! provides a comprehensive listing of young adult authors. Over 150 authors are listed here - some with multiple websites. If you are looking for a childrens author check the Children's Authors Yahoo!
Arts/Literature/Authors resource for locating electronic texts by specific authors archived throughtout overtwenty Existentialist minds in literature philosophy psychology and theatre http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Arts/Literature/Authors/
CIMC Finding Children's Literature and the Indexes of the following books to locate children's literature on specificsubjects Best Books for young adult Readers Grades 712 (Ref Z 1037 C176 http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/ref/user_guides/child_lit.html
Extractions: Award-Winning Children's Literature Children's Literature To search for children's literature on campus, you will need to use MadCat. For more information about searching MadCat, please read the user guide on searching for books To search for children's fiction, perform a Guided Keyword search, using the phrase Juvenile Fiction in the Subject (SKEY) field. Combine this phrase with other search terms to narrow your search. For example, using a Guided Keyword search, enter "friends" on the first search line. On the second search line, enter "juvenile fiction," choosing "as a phrase" from the drop-down to the right and "Subject (SKEY)" in the "Search in:" field. Make sure that "AND with the next set" is selected between the two search lines. To search for children's non-fiction, perform a Guided Keyword search, using the phrase Juvenile Literature in the Subject (SKEY) field. Combine this phrase with other search terms to narrow your search. To search for titles about children's literature, perform a Guided Keyword search, using the phrase Children's Literature in the Subject (SKEY) field. Searching for "Children's Literature" will retrieve titles such as Books You Can Count On: Linking Mathematics and Literature and Give Them Wings: The Experience of Children's Literature.
Literature by author, work, or period to find links to online criticism, biographical information,and links to web sites about specific authors or works or literature. http://library.uwa.edu/Resources/Lit.htm
Extractions: Miscellaneous sites Explicator index and the Literary Calendar. GENERAL SOURCES Literary Resources on the Net Especially helpful with American and English literature. Librarians Index to the Internet Literature link. MIT Libraries Literature Resources Internet resources dealing primarily with American and English literature. Literary Market Place - keyword search capabilities for publishers, literary agents, trade services, and resources. Online Literary Criticism Collection search by author, work, or period to find links to online criticism, biographical information, and links to web sites about specific authors or works or literature. Voice of the Shuttle searchable site of humanities web pages Top of page INTERNET COLLECTIONS OF LITERARY WORKS Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - digital documents available for downloading in HTML and PDF format in the areas of English and American literature, as well as, Western philosophy. Documents can be searched individually or in groups.
Links For Book Lovers or documents that deal with specific writers by Google's Directory of young AdultAuthors, Google's links to individual author's Web sites and literature sites. http://lehs.lapeer.org/library/booklovers.html
Extractions: Amazon.com The Teen Page (there's also a Children's Page) has lists of bestsellers, award winners, classics... (Note: This is a book store and they do want to sell you books) The Book Bag book site targeting teens, articles and reviews, word of the day, survey questions, author interviews... Children's Literature Web Guide everything about literature for children and young adults from the David K. Brown at the University of Calgary Choices Book Lists download the annual lists of book selected by the International Reading Association for children and young adults CYSCLR Cynthia Leitich Smith Children's Literature Resources features links to authors, bibliographies, reader's resources, writer's resources, topic bibliographies, ... Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature create your own reading list - select the age of reader, time period, genre, gender of protagonist, award-winners... Created by Lisa Bartle, reference librarian at California State University. Favorite Teenage Angst Books "...put simply, every single book listed on this page has caused me to think, made my heart soar, or filled me with glee. these are the best of the best..." Cathy Young.
Listings Of The World Arts Literature Authors related to specific authors and their writing. http//www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/ Added Nov-25-02; Classics at the Online literature Library Post http://listingsworld.com/Arts/Literature/Authors/
Extractions: Resources Links Discuss Submit ... Children's Literature Web Guide A very extensive website put together by D.K. Brown at the University of Calgary that compiles many resources related to children's literature: award winners, best sellers, activities for the classroom and links, links, and more links ! How Novel!: Canadian Young Adult Literature Developed by the Saskatoon Library, this site is dedicated to Canadian young adult fiction (fiction written by Canadians, about Canadians, or which takes place in Canada). Resources include cover art, annotations, reviews and publisher information, as well as author photographs and biographies. Searches can be made via subject or author. Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature A site of Children's literature links consisting of other book lists, recommended books and awards, thematic lists, and special interest books. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site A very large collection of children literature reviews that are organized by title, author, genre, and reading age. Additionally you can find fun activities for the classroom, reccommended related books, and related links. BDD Books for Young Readers Teacher's Resource Center Reviews and lesson plans on various books. Books organized into these searchable categories: Alphabetical Title Index, Authors and Illustrators Index, Awards Index, Black History Month Index, Grade Index, Interdisciplinary Index, Newbery Award Winners, and Reluctant Readers Index
Mythopoeic Awards honors books for younger readers (from young Adults to the same as for the AdultLiterature award is given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.html
Extractions: Members of the Mythopoeic Society are invited to join the committees which choose the Society's annual Fantasy and Scholarship Awards, and/or to nominate eligible books. Nominations (no more than five books for each award, please) and requests to serve on the selection committees should be sent by February 28, 2003 to the awards administrator: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2002 that best exemplifies "the spirit of the Inklings". Reissues (such as paperback editions) are eligible if no earlier edition was a finalist. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series is eligible the year its final volume appears. Last year's winner was The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold.