Literature
| Barking Spiders Poetry Excerpts from children's author, CJ Heck's 3 books, 5 children's stories, tongue twisters, poems to finish, a guest poet, essays, help for writers, contact information, and a bio. | |
| The Audrey Wood Clubhouse - Award-winning children's book author and a group of illustrators explain how children's books are created. | |
| Book Hive - Guide to children's books categorized by genre and reading level. Includes coloring activities, a quiz, and story telling. | |
| By the Book - Children's book news, reviews, and author interviews. | |
| Cool-Reads - Hundreds of book reviews for 10-15 year-olds as written by 10-15 year-old reviewers. | |
| Cricket Country - A literary magazine for babies to age 14. Includes poems, stories (usually with an ethnic theme), and a crossbird puzzle. | |
| Drew's Notes - A summary of Peter Jenkins' book "A Walk Across America" with character descriptions. | |
| Exploring Literature - Knowledge Explorer Centre - Reviews, commentary, and tools for exploring classic and contemporary literature. Includes a detailed look at literary criticism. | |
| The International Children's Digital Library - Online collection of books that can be viewed with a number of backgrounds and viewers. | |
| Introduction to Detective Stories - Goes over traits of detective stories and key elements such as suspense. Also provides sample passages to understand how a detective story is written. | |
| Kids' Corner - Kids' Corner, featuring the stories of Beatrix Potter in text, RealAudio, streaming media, and multimedia slideshows | |
| Kids Reads - Offers reading guides for a variety of book. Also contests, author interviews biographical information. | |
| Literature Classics - Essays, links and analysis on classic literature authors and works, resources, reviews, prizes for submissions, and a growing literature community with forums, chat, and interactive features. | |
| Night World: The Place for L. J. Smith Fans - Information and facts about LJ Smith and about her books. Includes mailing list in which you can talk about her books and related topics. | |
| Playtime Canada - Animated stories, games, and coloring for children. | |
| PrimaryGames.com Bookshelf - Read interactive online stories. Stories are easy to read, perfect for younger children. | |
| Reading Rants - Out of the ordinary teen booklists listed by subjects like Graphic Fantastic, Deadheads and Moshpits, Reality Bytes, and Slacker Fiction. | |
| Scholastic Kids - Scholastic Books interactive pages where kids can play with their favorite book characters, read about new books, and see software reviews; links for parents with advice on helping with homework, and keeping schedules; and a section for teachers including a homeroom homepage. | |
| Spaghetti Book Club - Collection of children's book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids. Read posted reviews or submit new ones. | |
| Storybook Online Network - A Storytelling Community - A storytelling community for children and parents with creative writing, illustrated stories, and interactive activities. Children can read, hear, see, and create stories before them. Stories are available for many different levels of readers. The site offers audio and video content | |
| Teens @ Random - Publisher's web site dedicated to teen readers. Includes thousands of books for teens, plus excerpts, reading group guides, contests, and author bios. | |
| The Web Popper Tales - Online stories for ages 3-7 with audio animated stories read by the authors, complete with printable stories to keep and read. | |
| Welcome to MightyBook.com - An interactive flash site for ages 2-12 with read aloud books, video song books, vocabulary games and puzzles, a dictionary and thesaurus, and much more. | |
| Welcome to Seussville - Features games based on books. Includes a storymaker. | |
| Authors' Calendar | |
| Alex Haley | |
| Alice Walker | |
| Author Biographies | |
| Author Search Index on kidsreads.com | |
| Author Webliography | |
| Authors and Illustrators | |
| Authors of Lasting Fame | |
| Bill Peet - Author, Animator, Illustrator | |
| Coleen Salley - Promotes children's author and storyteller, providing information about recent publications and booking engagements. | |
| Famous Authors and Their Creations | |
| From Noah Webster to Merriam-Webster | |
| Gale Group: Poet's Corner | |
| Great Writers and Poets | |
| Learning About Cynthia Voigt | |
| MacDonald, Amy | |
| Marisabina Russo - Provides personal information about the author, a synopsis of the books she has writte, and a schedule of school visits. | |
| Maya Angelou | |
| Neil Arksey | |
| The Poet's Bookshelf: Biographies of Famous Poets | |
| Sheila Keenan | |
| Sherry Garland | |
| Simon Rose - Author of science fiction and fantasy novels for children and young adults. Find autobiographical information and a synopsis of some of his books. | |
| Teri Daniels Books - Author of picture books includng The Feet in the Gym, Just Enough, G-Rex, and Math Man. Features a biography, photos, activities that relate to her stories, links for young readers, and teacher's guides. | |
| The World of Peter Rabbit | |
| Writers Online: Terence Blacker Questions & Answers | |
| Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - A collection of Aesop's and other fables. There are more than 655 fables indexed with Morals, Fairy Tales, Mythology, and Stories. | |
| Underthesun: Louisa May Alcott - Includes HTML versions of most of Alcott's works, biography, forums, and links. | |
| Bibliomania: Louisa M. Alcott - Provides complete texts of An Old Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins, Good Wives, and Little Women and provides an introduction to Alcott's writings. | |
| BookRags: Little Women - Study guide with chapter summaries, character and object descriptions, author biography, quotes, topic tracking, and the full text of the book. | |
| Classic Novels: Works by Louisa May Alcott - Electronic versions of Louisa May Alcott novels. These have been formatted in XML so some older browsers may not display the formatting correctly. | |
| Louisa May Alcott Electronic Text from University of Pennsylvania - Electronic text catalog for the works of Louisa May Alcott archived by the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library. | |
| University of Virginia: Alcott Collection - Electronic text versions of titles by Louisa May Alcott archived by the University of Virginia. | |
| UPenn Digital Library: Little Men - Complete text. | |
| Great Literature Online - Short biography and texts of some of the fairy tales. | |
| Under The Sun - This site offers the works of Hans Christian Andersen online, with biography and links to other Andersen resources on the web. | |
| Animated Princess and the Pea - Listen and read along with this classic tale. Site requires Flash plug-in. | |
| ClassicReader.com: Hans Christian Andersen - Full-length, online edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Includes more than a dozen tales. | |
| Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories - English translation includes original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frølich. Includes texts of more than 100 of Andersen's tales. | |
| The Princess and the Pea - Provides text and RealAudio version of Andersen's most famous stories. | |
| Æsop's Fables - 127 fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. | |
| The Ugly Duckling - Offers illustrated text and Real Audio version of this classic tale. | |
| Works of Hans Christian Andersen - Electronic text for the works of Hans Christian Andersen archived at the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library. | |
| Arthur's Classic Novels - A collection of electronic text versions of classics from Jules Verne, Mark Twain, O Henry, and others. Displayed in XML. | |
| The Baldwin Project - Online editions of classic children's books from the golden age of children's literature (1880-1922). | |
| Under The Sun - Electronic Texts - This site offers the works of L. Frank Baum online, as well as a biography and other Baum/Oz links. | |
| Baum Collection - University of Virginia - Electronic text titles from L. Frank Baum. Some titles include illustrations. | |
| Building Rainbows book reviews - L. Frank Baum Electronic Literature - L. Frank Baum classics to read with provisions to provide book reviews for each of the books. | |
| ClassicReader.com - L. Frank Baum - Provides texts for 15 of Baum's fictional works. | |
| Electronic Text - Works of L. Frank Baum - Electronic text for the works of L. Frank Baum archived at the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library. | |
| The Famous Forty Canon - Provides pictures and brief synopses of the 40 books now in the Oz series. Includes links to the complete texts of Baum's works, the first 14 books in the series. | |
| A Kidnapped Santa Claus - Easy-to-read text of Baum's classic Christmas tale. | |
| The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus - Complete text of the Christmas novel, broken into chapters. | |
| Online Literature Library: L Frank Baum - Provides complete online texts for all of Baum's 14 novels about the world of Oz. | |
| Tales of Oz : Arthur's Classic Novels - Electronic text for the books of L. Frank Baum. These have been formatted in XML so some older browsers may not display the formatting correctly. | |
| BookRags - Summary guides to classic literature. | |
| Books for Young Readers - Electronic text versions of young children's books and rhymes. Most are illustrated. | |
| Building Rainbows Book Reviews - Classic Children's Books - A collection of electronic texts for young people with provisions for adding book reviews and discussion about each of the books. | |
| byGosh.com - Free Online Classic Children's Stories - About twenty formatted online classic children's stories, some include illustrations. | |
| Catcher in the Rye Essays - Includes a summary of the book, an "about the author" section, essay ideas and help, and completed essays. | |
| Children's Classics List from The Horn Book - A listing of children's classics with associated descriptions arranged by age group. The list was compiled by Mary M. Burns. | |
| Children's Stories : Arthur's Classic Novels - Electronic text for many children's classic books. These have been formatted in XML so older browsers may not display the formatting properly. | |
| Classic Reader - A large collection of full-length classic stories for online reading. | |
| Classics for Young People - Links to full electronic text versions of classics by various authors archived by the Children's Literature Web Guide. | |
| Classics for Young People - A list of classic literature for young people sorted by author. HTML versions of the text are included for many of the books. | |
| IPL Story Hour - A small collection of online stories for younger readers. Contents include: Mother Goose, The Tortoise and the Hare, and others. | |
| University of Pennsylvania On-Line Books Page - Electronic texts archived at the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library. Search or browse by author/title/subject. | |
| University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: The Modern English Collection - Browse and search the publicly-accessible electronic texts from this extensive selection. Browse by author, or area of interest. Search by author or title or keywords/phrases within the text. Some titles include illustrations. | |
| The Virtual Bookshelf - An archive of virtual books in a web-friendly format. | |
| The War of the Worlds - E-text of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. | |
| Young People's Zone - A site with children's literature online sorted by series and author. Includes fairy tales, Avonlea series, fables, Robin Hood tales, and other classics | |