Helpful Sites:

 

The following sites offer lots of information for librarians, teachers, writers, and anyone interested in learning more about children's literature.

 

 

Tracie Vaughn Zimmer - www.TracieVaughnZimmer.com

· Poetry, Poetry, and all things Poetry

· Teacher's guides for children's literature - many prose and poetry titles.

· Tracie Vaughn Zimmer is a poet and novelist who also writes teacher's guides for publishers of children's books.

· Poetry lesson plans

· Interviews with poets

· Newsletter on children's literature

 

 

 

Cynthia Leitich Smith -  www.cynthialeitichsmith.com

 

· Finding great books

· Book reviews and recommendations

· Multi-cultural titles and links

· Planning author visits

· Author interviews

· Bazillions of great links

 

Jane Yolen — www.janeyolen.com

· For teachers--materials for teaching, books by theme and age
· For kids--where to get ideas, how to write
· For writers--on writing for children and young adults, the muse,

           speeches on writing, writing with joy
· Journal/blog--daily activities of a prolific and versatile writer,

           and musings on the writing process

 

 

Hope Vestergaard - www.hopevestergaard.com

 

· Finding great books

· Book reviews and recommendation

· Planning author visits

· Teacher's Guides and ideas for using books in classrooms.

· Advice and help for writers. 

· BEST discussion of writing in rhyme anywhere.

· Hope Vestergaard is also the author of Weaving the Literacy Web: Building Curriculum Around Books Children Love.

· There's more info here: www.hopevestergaard.com/webs.php

 

 

Esme Raji Codell - www.planetesme.com

 

· EXTENSIVE resources for finding books by topic or need.

· Book reviews.

· Strong focus on using books in classrooms.

 

 

Susan Taylor Brown - www.susantaylorbrown.com/teachingguides.html

 

· Teacher's Guides Database

Uma Krishnaswami – www.umakrishnaswami.com

 

· Teacher's guides and reading group guides.

Toni Buzzeo - www.tonibuzzeo.com

 

· Toni wrote the book on Author and Illustrator school visits . . Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators and Storytellers. ISBN:  1-56308-744-8

 

 

Anne Fine - www.myhomelibrary.org/home.html

 

· Book plates. An extensive collection of reproducible book plates by many children's illustrators.

 

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