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Web Pages for Kids: Books and Authors
Books Online
Book Review/Interviews
Award Winners
Author/Illustrator Links
Books Online
Children's Book Council - The CBC provides links to authors and illustrators of children's books who are published by our member publishers and whose Web pages showcase these books.
Children's Storybooks On-line - Short illustrated on-line picture books.
Dear America - The Dear America books are written in a diary format. They invite you into the personal experience of girls from different times in American history. "Each diary is based on real letters and diaries from girls of the time, so you will experience firsthand what it was like to grow up and live in another time and place."
Wacky Web Tales - At this site, you get to fill in blanks and then read a funny story created using your words!
Reading Zone - Picture Books - This Internet Public Library Site has links to lots of fun picture books to read on-line.
Reading Zone - Short Stories - Read all different kinds of short stories at this on-line site. If you like animal stories, adventure stories, fables or mystery stories, you will find something here.
Stories in Spanish - Here you will find links to many different stories in Spanish written just for kids!
Candlelight Stories - Read stories, play spelling word games, or write a mystery story of your own.
Kids Space - Online picture books, stories, and art work submitted by kids and for kids.
Dinotopia - Here you can meet the author of the Dinotopia books, test your knowledge in a fun trivia game, and learn the alphabet used in Dinotopia.
Book Reviews and Interviews
Kidsreads - Read excerpts from new books, interviews with authors, answer reading questions about popular books and read how other kids answered.
World of Reading - Book reviews by kids, for kids. Submit your own review or search the reviews submitted by other kids.
Scholastic Kids - Check out live interviews with authors of books for kids and check out links to information about some cool series books such as Goosebumps, Captain Underpants, Deltora Quest, and Baby-sitters Club.
Award Winners
Caldecott Metal Homepage - This award is presented each year to an illustrator of a picture book for children published in the last year.
Newbery Metal Homepage - This award is presented each year to an author of a children's book published in the last year in the United States.
Margaret A. Edward's Award - This award is given annually to an author for lifetime achievement in writing for teens.
Coretta Scott King Award - This award is given to an African American author and an African American illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution published during the previous year.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award - This award is given annually to a U.S. publisher for an outstanding translated book for children.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award - This award is given to an author for making a substantial contribution to literature for children.
Jane Addams Book Award - This award is given to the children's book of the preceding year that most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice and world community.
Pura Belpre Award - This award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Michael L. Printz Award - This award is given for literary excellence in young adult literature.
State Award Books - Each year, children in many states read titles from selected reading lists and vote for their favorite books. See which books kids around the U.S. are reading and check out some other cool links on Mona Kerby's site, The Reading Corner. At this site, you will find links to book and illustrator awards presented by ALA, children's book reviewers, and individual state awards.
Charlotte Zolotow - Awarded to the author of the best picture book text published in the United States.
Author and Illustrator Links
Children's Literature Web Guide - Check out this page to find links to lots of authors and illustrators' home pages. Don't miss Jan Brett, Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis, and Madeline L'Engle.
The Author Page from Kidspace@the Internet Public Library- Check out photos, read biographies, and find out answers to questions that kids asked from authors like Avi, Katherine Paterson, Robert Cormier and many more.
Author Pages - Go to the bottom of this site and click on the first letter of your favorite author's last name. Hundreds of links to biographies and pictures of authors are listed.