FUN LINKS

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LINKS TO OTHER CHILDREN'S AUTHORS:  Check out the websites of some of my writer friends and other writers for children.

LINKS FOR KIDS:  Explore these sites and let me know if you have interesting ones to add.

LINKS TO PARENT, TEACHER, & LIBRARIAN RESOURCES:  Find lesson plans on specific topics, find reviews of books, and locate other resources for the classroom or for home.

LINKS TO WRITER RESOURCES:  Are you a writer, or aspiring writer?  Find organizations and sites to support your efforts and answer your questions.

  OTHER CHILDREN'S WRITERS ON THE WEB:

• Find your favorite writer alphabetically or by state at the America Writes for Kids website.

• Caroline Arnold is the author of over 100 books on a wide variety of nonfiction topics.

• Larry Dane Brimner has many nonfiction books to his credit.

• Visit my friend Susan Taylor Brown's newly revised website.

• Check out Doug Cushman's website.

• Sneed B. Collard III has some wonderful, fun books.

• Visit illustrator Joan Holub's colorful site.

• My friend Kristine O'Connell George writes terrific and informative poetry.

• Jean Craighead George writes fiction and nonfiction books with strong animal/natural history themes.

• Verla Kay writes rhyming books about events in western history.

• Kathryn Lasky and her photographer husband produce beautiful nonfiction books.

• Patti Newman's website is very appealing and has profiles of and links to many children's authors.

• Nature writer Dorothy Hinshaw Patent has covered many nonfiction topics in her career.

• Liz Koehler-Pentacoff is a friend who writes hysterically funny chapter books and much more.

• Michael Elsohn Ross lives near Yosemite National Park and is the author of numerous books with nature themes.

• Look for Pam Munoz Ryan's many award-winning books.

• April Pulley Sayre writes wonderful, award-winning nature books.

• Dan San Souci has written and/or illustrated a large number of beautiful books, most with a nature/animal theme.

• Check out Seymour Simon's  over 200 science and nature-related books.

• Find out the latest on 3-time Newbery Honor winner Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

• MaryAnn Weidt has written interesting biographies and her web page is lots of fun.

    stuff for kids:

• Check out the Rainforest Action Network Sites for Kids.  Find out how you can help preserve our environment and learn more about rainforests.

• If you are interested in science, find great information at the Try Science site.  Locate science museums. See a live cam view atop Mt. Washington in New Hampshire (the windiest place on earth) or at other exciting places.  Try experiments and take on-line field trips.

• Discover fun and facts at Yahooligans! (A Web Guide for Kids).

• Find out all you ever wanted to know about cockroaches.  Why are worms slimy?  Check out these and other yucky, fun facts at the Yuckiest Site on the Internet.

• Look for homework-helper sites, game sites, and research sites for kids at the Association of Library Service to Children.

• Access links to federal agency sites designed for kids through the Ingram Library, State University of West Georgia.

WANT TO RESEARCH ON- LINE?

• Use search engines like Google and Yahoo to explore topics that interest you. Ask Jeeves for Kids is a terrific place to ask questions and get answers on line.

• Resources such as the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution are great to learn about books, other written materials, exhibits and pictures that exist on a subject for a report or fun.

• Need to find out about weather or what happened on this day in history? Surf to the Farmer's Almanac site!

DO YOU LOVE STORYTELLING, reading, OR WRITING?

Check out these websites to learn more :

• America Writes for Kids is a good place to learn about books, writing and your favorite authors.

• The Kids' Storyteller Club has a different story topic each month.

• Creative Writing for Teens has lots of help and ideas for various forms of writing.

• Try sending in some of your poems, stories or art to Stone Soup, a magazine for young writers and artists.

• Do you want help with grammar, rhyming, or spelling?  Are you interested in crossword puzzles, slang words, word puzzles, or puns?  Check out Word Play.

  PARENT, Teacher & librarian resources:

• Go to the BOOKS link in the menu to your left and click on any individual book that I have written to find the "Activities for Classroom and Library" specific to each book.  Each book page has several ideas on how to use the book and how to learn more about the subject, including links to other web sites.

• You can find Internet resources related to books for children and young adults at the Children's Literature Web Guide . . .  links to authors, recommended reading, book awards, resources for teachers and parents, and more.

• Explore Education World to find good links, lesson plans, and book reviews.

• The New York Times "Teacher Connections" has the Lesson Plan of the Day and their archives make it easy to search previous lesson plans by subject.

• Looking for an autographed copy of one of my books?  You can find most of my books at Orinda Books on the web.  If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can visit Orinda Books in Orinda, off Highway 24 between Berkeley and Walnut Creek.

writer resources         

• Harold Underdown's Purple Crayon is a great site for information about children's writing and books.

• The Children's Book Council site contains lots of information about children's books, publishers, and authors.

• The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is the professional organization for writers and illustrators of children's literature.  Each year it hands out the Golden Kite Awards, one of the top honors in children's literature.  The three local SCBWI chapters in Northern California also have a joint website where you can find children's authors in my area.

• The Authors Guild promotes the interests of all writers.

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