AKA: Author Pseudonyms
This website has an alphabetical list of authors who used pen names/pseudonyms.

America Reads Resource Kit
This site from the United States Department of Education is aimed at children from birth through elementary school. This website contains materials, background information, statistics, and ways to get started.

Awards for Children's Literature by state
A nearly comprehensive list of awards, organized by state. This site, hosted by Cynthia Leitich Smith, contains a wealth of information about children's literature.

Book Adventure
Book Adventure is a reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read off-line, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation.

Book Hive
The Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, N.C.) developed this site for children, their parents, teachers or anyone interested in reading about children's books.

Book Raps
This Australian website is a book discussion page conducted via electronic mail. Individuals or groups of students from across the country or around the world can discuss the scheduled books. Teachers or teacher librarians can nominate a book for discussion by becoming a Book Rap Coordinator. Current titles for discussion are listed on the Book Rap Calendar. Some Book Raps may include special events such as author involvement, illustrators on-line, access to content area experts, and live chat sessions.

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This is a collection of reviews of books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom, and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes, and professional topics.

Center for Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
A comprehensive site for children's literature in Spanish. Under the direction of Dr. Isabel Schon of California State University-San Marcos, CA.

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This site has an extensive selection of children's literature. The site's search form is has a number of ways to search the database including: ethnicity of the protagonist, historical timeframe, location or setting of the story, multicultural aspects, publication date, readers age, format, and whether the book has won any of a long list of awards. Search by keyword is also available. This site does not offer any advice about where to find the book, but assumes that one will use the library (of course).

First Lines
A reference librarian and an electronic engineer created this website of first lines from novels, children's books, and other genres.

Georgia Center for the Book
Georgia Center for the Book's (GCB) launches the first ever statewide reading campaign to unite all of Georgia. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray is the book chosen by the GCB to encourage reading and discussion in the state.

Georgia Children's Book Awards
Information, nominees, certificates about the annual book award program sponsored by the University of Georgia.

National Book Month
The National Book Awards has been in existence for almost forty years. Acknowledging the importance of reading and writing to citizens of all ages and backgrounds -- and the profound gap between the literary community and readers living in underserved communities -- The National Book Foundation hopes to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America.

Read Across America Day
Read Across America is a project of the National Education Association. To honor Dr. Seuss's birthday in March schools across the nation celebrate reading.

The Berenstain Bears
Stan and Jan Berenstain have created an interactive page based on their popular series.

The Children's Literature Web Guide
From Children's Books Online to Storyteller's resources to Children's Book Publishers and much more, this site provides links to children's literature of all genres. Also included are links to publishers, awards (Canadian and American), Conferences, and more.

The Children's Literature Web Guide
This is the ultimate website for Children's Lit, constructed by David K. Brown of the Doucette Library of Teaching at the University of Calgary Center for Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents www.csusm.edu/csbs/ A comprehensive site for children's literature in Spanish. Under the direction of Dr. Isabel Schon of California State University-San Marcos, CA.

Word of the Day
Word of the Day is a daily electronic publication that includes a vocabulary word, its definition, pronunciation information with audio clip, etymology, usage example, quotation, and other interesting tidbits about words to subscribers every day.