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Adobe Illustrator
Adobe provides a detailed overview of their drawing application, Illustrator. Includes product information, examples of completed work created with Illustrator, customer stories, training tutorials, purchase information, and the like.
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Bedtime Story: Whimsical Stories for Reading
Awesome site with hundreds of stories by published and unpublished authors to encourage reading stories together and out loud. Each story also has a section titled "What's it all about" which gives background information along with...
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Johnnie's Story Page: Stories and Reading Activities for Beginning Readers
Links students can follow to listen and read along with dozens of illustrated stories from different online sources. Stories are sorted into three categories: Beginning Readers, Classic Stories, and Older Readers.
PBS
Pbs: The Story of India: British East India Company
Illustrated inset from a timeline of Indian history provides a brief overview of the British East India Company relating to its affairs in India.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Raid of Deerfield
Discover facts about the raid at Deerfield, Massachusetts. This feature describes the attach of the colony, as well as the ally relationship between the French and Native Americans. Provides three pages of information, as well as an...
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Stories by Grandpa
Indian mythology, festivals, and heroes are the subjects of these stories. Each is simply illustrated and the narrator (the grandpa) is identified, as well as the editor who put the story in written form.
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Children's Storybooks Online
This site has illustrated online children's stories, riddles, and coloring books.
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Children's Storybooks Online: "Tiger Son"
Illustrated online story based on a Chinese tale written 300 years ago. "Tiger Son" is the story of a tiger cub adopted by an old woman and the relationship they form. You'll also find biographical information on Po Chung-ling, the...
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Jc Online: Brincanda De Detetive
Short, illustrated children's detective stories collected by the well-known "Jornal do Comercio," a Brazilian periodical. Read the stories online and see if you can help Inspector Arruda solve the mysteries.
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Jc Online Reading Room: Contos Infantis
This resource provides a collection of interactive stories, fables, and exercises for students.
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encylopedia Mythica: Folktales From Many Lands
Read a Mayan folktale about how the sun and moon were created, a Russian tale about how a farm boy becomes a prince, a Scandinavian tale about how Winter captured Spring, or a Blackfoot Indian story about learning from buffalo. More than...
Sacred Text Archive
Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Etext
Indian Fairy Tales is a well-illustrated collection that includes a wonderful notes section giving source information, parallels to other stories and remarks by the author. Very valuable for upper level students of fairy tales.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Changing Role of Jewish Women in Saint John
This site illustrates the impact and role that Jewish women played within the Saint John, New Brunswick area.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: America at Play: How Baseball Began
Illustrated overview of baseball's roots in the English game known as "rounders" or "four-old-cat."
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Storyplace: Children's Digital Learning Library
This site is a real find for teachers working with ELL students and all students who want to read great books! The Bookhive presents 100's of reviews of books recommended by librarians associated with the public libraries in Charlotte,...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Masterpiece Lesson Faith Ringgold
This resource features a look at Faith Ringgold's work "Tar Beach." It provides information on how this author/artist created this story quilt. Find out how you can have your students develop their own autobiographical story quilt.
Sacred Text Archive
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Etext
Illustrated collection of fairy tales that includes Jack and the Beanstalk, Henny-Penny, The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears, this also includes a very helpful Notes section that advanced readers will want to check out. While some of...
NC State University
Global Book Club: The Westing Game
Do you like mystery and intrigue in your literature? This site features activities for the mystery story, "The Westing Game," by Ellen Raskin. Come and check out these cross-curricular activities.
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Russian Fairy Tales
At this site choose between long version and a short version of these fairy tales translated from the Russian. Each one is illustrated. Be aware that there are advertisements on the page.
The Book Report
Teenreads.com: Ray Bradbury
This resource presents a brief profile of an author who began writing his first stories on butcher paper.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Abel's Island
This book review of William Steig's Abel's Island features suggestions for comparisons to other survival stories.
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Yesterday's Classics: Baldwin Project: More Jataka Tales: Table of Contents
Links to twenty-one different fables from the book More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt. Written in the Jataka tradition from India, these tales are interesting and teach life and character-building lessons to readers. An illustrated...
Mythweb
Mythweb: Bellerophon
Fun, illustrated trip through the story of "Bellerophon" from Greek mythology. Well-suited for younger audiences. Each page summarizes a part of the story along with a very eye-catching, animated illustration.
Mythweb
Mythweb: Perseus and the Gorgon Medusa
Fun, illustrated trip through the story of Perseus from Greek mythology well suited for younger audiences. Each page summarizes part of the story along with a very eye-catching, animated illustration.