Book and Author Sites

On-line Activities for Authors

Skype The Author Wiki – Wouldn’t it be great to invite an author into your classroom to chat with your students before, during, and/or after you’ve read his book? Learn More…

Borders Media – Author interview – See Diary Wimpy Kid Interview

Reading Rocket – Author Video Interviews

Scholastic Author Visit List - Support on Scholastic for settting up author visits.

Author Video and Audio Podcasts – free video and audio podcasts from Reading Rockets video and audio chats with favorite authors, as well as videos of best practices.

Bookwink – video previews of children’s books and young adult literature.

Meet the Author / Illustrator Page – Children’s Literature reviewers read and critically review more than 4,000 books annually. Our mission is to help teachers, librarians, childcare providers and parents make appropriate literary choices for children.

Google Lit Trips – A Different Way to Read Great Literature!This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place… and so much more!

AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS:

Brett, Jan

Carle, Eric

DePaola, Tomie

Florian, Douglas

George, Kristine O’Connell

Henkes, Kevin

Hoberman, Mary Ann

Kirby,  Mona

Lester, Helen

Parish, Peggy

Pearson, Tracey Campbell

Rappaport, Doreen

Reisenauer, Cindy Mauro

Roy, Ron

Schories, Pat -

Silverstein, Shel

Smith, Charles Jr.

Wilhelm,  Hans

Willems,  Mo

Different Sites to enhance your learning

• Epic Books----See Mrs. Goldstein for password

• Between the Lions 

• http://www.funbrain.com/


• Cool Learning Games
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BOOK BASED ACTIVITIES