Reading and Writing Web Sites for Kids

Obtained from the American Library Association (ALA) web site.  Note: Exploration of the Internet for children is always best when guided by caring adults.

Authors

Avi's Home Page

Avi answers questions and talks about his books.

  http://www.avi-writer.com/

Jan Brett's Home Page

You'll find everything from trolls to armadillos on this author/illustrator's page.

                       http://www.janbrett.com/

Official Eric Carle Web Site

For fans of the famous author/illustrator and his books.

             http://www.eric-carle.com/

Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden, Portland, OR

There are sculptures of Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ribsy in park only a few    blocks from the real Klickitat Street!

                       http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/kids/cleary.html

Karen Pederson's Beverly Cleary Home Page

A fun page by a big fan of this famous author.

                       http://www.teleport.com/~krp/cleary.html

Official Brian Jacques Home Page

If you're a fan of the Redwall books, here's the site for you!

                       http://www.redwall.org

Seussville

Games, information, and fun from the publisher of the Dr. Seuss books!

                       http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/

Susan Wojciechowksi Website

For fans of the author of the ALA Notable Children's Book, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey.

                       http://goose.ycp.edu/~swojciec/

Reading

Animorphs Page

The home page for this popular paperback series.

                       http://scholastic.com/animorphs

The Arthur Page

For Arthur fans everywhere!

                       http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/arthur/

Baby-Sitters' Club Page

What's happening at the Baby-Sitters' Club?

                       http://scholastic.com/babysittersclub

Magic School Bus Page

What are Ms. Frizzle and her class doing now?

                       http://scholastic.com/MagicSchoolBus

MidLink Magazine

An electronic magazine for young people in the middle grades.

                       http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/

Reading Links

If you like to read, this is the links page for you! Seuss! E.B. White! Roald Dahl!

Reading Rainbow! Lots more!

                       http://metronet.lib.mi.us/CANT/YOUTH/read.html

Scoop

Almost everything about books and authors for young people.

                       http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/index.html

Tales of Wonder

Folk and fairy tales from around the world.

                       http://itpubs.ucdavis.edu/richard/tales/

Treasure Island

The authors say that here is "absolutely everything you'd want to know about this classic.

                       http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/treasure/setframe.htm

Thomas the Tank Engine Page

Calling all Thomas the Tank Engine fans! Stories, games and fun.

                       http://www.thomasthetankengine.com/

Writing

 Kids on the Web

           Children write stories and post them for everyone to read.

                       http://www.zen.org/%7Ebrendan/kids.html

Inkspot Young Writer's Resource

A Web magazine for young writers.

                       http://www.inkspot.com/young/

KidPub

Another place for kids to publish stories and poems and read other writings by young people.

   http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/