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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Video Interviews With Top Children's Authors and Illustrators

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A large collection of video interviews, along with biographical profiles, with well-known children's authors.
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Dan Gutman, Children's Book Author

For Students 3rd - 5th
The children's author Dan Gutman hosts this website devoted to his baseball stories. It even includes rejection letters, an original poem, and some book excerpts, and some puzzles and games.
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The Book Report

Kids reads.com: Authors

For Students 3rd - 5th
Click on the children's author link to view an article with biographical information, book titles, and the like.
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Interview With Children's and Ya Author Diane Gonzales Bertrand

For Students 9th - 10th
The transcript of an interview with Texas poet and children's author Diane Gonzales Bertrand. (Date of Interview: March 2002)
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Presenting Sid Fleischman

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is children author Sid Fleischman's personal website, which offers a fascinating look into his life and work.
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Chris Van Allsburg

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official website for the children's author, Chris Van Allsburg. Includes a biography, interviews, timeline, and many interactive activities. Click on one of his works to take a sneak peek at the book. Winner of the Caldecott...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Beatrix Potter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site focuses on Beatrix Potter including a link to her biography and a link to the full text of her book The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter, a collection of her children's tales.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Eric Carle Author Study

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource features an author study of Eric Carle. Students and teachers can gain a deeper understanding into this author's life and work when they visit.
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Barbara Greenwood's Guide to Writing for Children [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Barbara Greenwood, a Canadian author of numerous historical fiction books for children, has written this thirty-page writing guide where she explains the process she goes through in constructing a story. She covers such key topics as...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Author Studies Homepage Beverly Cleary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Biography on children's author Beverly Cleary along with a listing of her awards that she has won throughout the years.
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University of Calgary

The Children's Literature Web Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource is a children's literature web guide.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Laura Numeroff Biography

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource features a biography of the author Laura Numeroff. Students and teachers will benefit from this inside look at the life and work of this children's author.
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University of Manitoba

The Manitoba Library Association: Cm Magazine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
CM Magazine is an electronic magazine that is published every two weeks. It offers reviews of children's books and profiles of Canadian children's authors.
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Ian Wallace

For Students 3rd - 5th
Ian Wallace is a very successful Canadian children's author. His website has a wealth of information about him and his books, as well as articles that have been written about him.
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Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers

Canscaip: Members Directory

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive list of Canadian children's authors and illustrators can be found here. Most have links to biographical information and author/illustrator websites.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Betsy Byars

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This resource site for the work of the children's author Betsy Byars features e-notes, activities, and lesson plans for classes reading Keeper of the Doves, The Summer of the Swans, and Trouble River.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Aliki

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource site for the work of the children's author Aliki includes lesson plans and activities for students reading Corn is Maize, Painted Words, Spoken Memories, My Visit to the Zoo, My Visit to the Aquarium, and Wild and Wooly...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Anne Fellows Johnston

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features the author Anne Fellows Johnston including the full text of three children's novels: The Gate of the Giant Scissors, The Little Colonel, and The Little Knights of Kentucky.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Robert Gordon Anderson

For Students K - 1st
This site features the author Robert Gordon Anderson including the full text of Seven O'Clock Stories, a children's story collection.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Edgar B. P. Darlington

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features the author Edgar B. P. Darlington including the full text of five children's novels from "The Circus Boys" series.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Lucy Maud Montgomery

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features the author Lucy Maud Montgomery including a biography, the full text of 11 children's novels, and 139 short stories. The Anne of Green Gables series is included in the novels.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Hildegard G. Frey

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features the author Hildegard G. Frey including the full text of four children's novels: The Camp Fire Girls at School, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit, The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin, and The Campfire Girls Go Motoring.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Thomas W. Burgess

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features the author Thomas W. Burgess including the full text of 13 children's novels.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Frances Hodgson Burnett

For Students 2nd - 8th
This site features the author Frances Hodgson Burnett including the full text of nine children's novels including Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden.

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