Contains a book review for Tuesday and several activities to accompany the book.

This site on the book "The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest" by Lynne Cherry includes a review of the book, a listing of things to notice and talk about, activities related to the book, other related books, and links to...

This is children author Sid Fleischman's personal website, which offers a fascinating look into his life and work.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1890) an illustrated children's novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Steele's Sciences: New Descriptive Astronomy by Joel D. Steele (c1884), an astronomy text for children.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper (1890), a children's frontier novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1890) an illustrated children's novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Gulliver's Travels in the Kingdom of Lilliput by Jonathan Swift, a children's novel about a voyage to Lilliput where the people were tiny.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1864), including Parts I and II of the novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1864), including Parts I and II of the novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1864), including Parts I and II of the novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner by Daniel Defoe (1864), including Parts I and II of the novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Every Day Gems: A Collection of New Music by R. B. Mahaffey (c1885), a collection of music for public schools.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Rip Van Winkle by George P. Webster (1887), a poetry version of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Robinson Crusoe, His Life and Adventures by Daniel Defoe (1887), illustrated by Ernest Henry Griset with numerous original wood engravings and twelve full-page...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Tales from Shakspeare Designed for the Use of Young People by Charles Lamb (1887). This book features a biography of Shakespeare, a chronological list of his plays,...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1888), a fictional account of travelling around the world.

Discover more about the children's author Jean Fritz, whose work often combines literature and history.

"The House of Dies Drear," is a powerful novel by Virginia Hamilton.

Check out this informative site about "A Long Way From Chicago" by Richard Peck and learn about small-town life during the Depression in seven short stories for the years 1929 through 1942.

This is a good site for teachers. Find a review of Jerry Spinelli's "Maniac Magee" as well as lesson plans and activities for the book.

Carol Hurst provides an interesting biographical sketch of Lois Lowry with information about several of her novels.

Students use the problem-solving strategy of "find a pattern" to predict the number of grains of rice Rani (from the book, One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi) will receive after 30 days. Students use a spreadsheet to...

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Newsletter lists picture books, fiction, and nonfiction titles on World War II.