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2010 Mentoring Program

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Books and Reading for Young People

(with an Australian bias)

Associations/Organisations

Authors

Awards

Book and Reading Promotion

Book Week  

Booklists

Children's Literature Sites

Collections

Electronic Texts

Graphic Novels

Journals

Literacy

Literature

Poetry

Publishers

Reviews

Specialist Book Shops

Storytelling

 

 

 

Teaching Resources

Traditional Literature

Et cetera

 

Associations/Organisations

 

 

Australian Booksellers Association

Australian Centre for Youth Literature

Australian Publishers Association

Australian Society of Authors

Bologna Children's Book Fair

Booktrust (UK)

 

 

The Canadian Children's Book Centre

Children's Book Council (US)

Children's Book Council of Australia

Children's Book Council of Australia (Queensland Branch)

 

Fremantle Children's Literature Centre

IBBY

The Mythopoeic Society

National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (UK)

National Literacy Trust (UK)

NSW Writers' Centre

PETA

 

The School Magazine (NSW)

 

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

Authors

 

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ASLA (NSW) Australian Authors and Illustrators for Young People

Australian Authors and Illustrators (CBC Queensland)

Australian Author & Illustrators Visits Database 

Australian Science Fiction Writers

Author Birthday list by date

Authors' Birthdays (Geebung State School) 

Canadian children's authors and  illustrators

Index to Internet Sites:
Children's and Young Adults' Authors & Illustrators
(Internet School Library Media Center)

Children's Authors and Illustrators (Includes activities)

Interviews with NZ Children's Authors Index 

 

Nutcote: the home of May Gibbs

OUP Author Interviews Includes video clips 

South African children's book authors and illustrators

UK Children's Books

Walker & Company Author Profiles

 

 

Awards

 

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Bilby Awards (Qld.)

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

Caldecott Medal Home Page (US)

Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals Website (UK)

Children's Book of the Year Awards (Australia)

C.O.O.L Awards (ACT)

Crichton Award (Australia)

Eleanor Farjeon Award (UK)

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature

Dromkeen Medal Winners

Environment Award for Children's Literature

The Euphemia "Pheme" Tanner Award

Hans Christian Andersen Award

KOALA Awards - N.S.W

Literary Prizes and Awards

Nan Chauncy Award

Nestlé Children's Book Prize

New Zealand Children's Book Awards

Newbery Medal Home Page

NSW Premier's Literary Awards

WA (Western Australian) Young Reader's Book Award

Whitley Awards

YABBA

YARA

 

 

 

Book and Reading Promotion

 

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12 Rules for Reading John Cotton Dana

100 Reader Club Home Reading Scheme (Brookvale Public School)

25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers!

The ABCs of Booktalking

ASLA Booklists

ASLA Quotes page

 

Book Raps

Booktalking tips

Book Marks to Promote Reading

Can it be for me? Book Selection mnemonic

CMIS Focus on Fiction  (W.A.)

Displays

Doucette Library of Teaching Resources

 

Five Finger test

Go4it Books and stories

Headmaster's Reading Program 

 

 

How to keep your books happy

Locked In at the Library - Information about holding a sleepover program

Nestle Write around Australia

Poems on Libraries and Books

Premier's Reading Challenge

 

Printable Bookmarks

Promoting Reading with Book Talks

Puffin Find-a-Book

RATS - Read a Terrific Story

Readers' Oath

Reading aloud to children: by Mem Fox

Reading Matters Book Chooser

Reading to your child

Reading Is Fundamental, UK  

"A Sad Book" Song

SPLATT Book Reviews

Trelease on Reading

Write a book review

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Book Week

 

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  Book Week 2009 CBCA

Book Week Ipswich District Teacher-Librarians

Book Week ideas 2009

 CMIS (WA) delicious links on Book Week
 Book Week book rap

 ALIA Book Week wiki

 

 


 

 

 

Children's Literature Sites

 

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Achuka Children's Books UK

Bella's Books for Kids

 

Children's Literature (US)

Children's Literature Web Guide

Children's Picture Book Database
at Miami University

Children's literature research unit (University of South Africa)

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature

Doucette Library of Teaching Resources

 

ISLMC Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources

Kidz Book Zone

 

Miisrule: the home of Australian Children's Books online

The Mother Goose Pages

MSM Library Children’s Literature Database

National Centre for Research in Children's Literature

 

OzLit for the Young

Page by Page  Creating a children's picture book

Picturing Books : a website about Picture Books

Kay Vandergrift Special Interest Page

Stories from the web

Young Adult Books Central

 

 

 

Collections

 

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AORA: The Children's Literature Research Collection (Sydney)

Australian Children's Literature SLNSW 

Children's Literature Research Collection of the State Library of South Australia

Children's Literature Collections (State Library of Victoria)

De Grummond Children's Literature Collection

Dromkeen

Lilly Library Chapbook Index

 

Little Golden Books

The Lu Rees Archives

Research Collection of Children's Literature WA

The Morgan Collection Online Exhibition (University of Melbourne)

 

 

 

Electronic Texts

 

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Australian Literary and Historical Texts

eBooks.com - Children's & Young Adult Fiction

International Digital Children's Library

Project Gutenberg of Australia

Project Gutenberg Web Site and HomePage

StoryPlus Free Stories

 

Traditional Literature

Young Readers Electronic Texts

 

 

 

Graphic Novels

 

 

Art and Books: Comics and Graphic Novels CSU 

Comic capers in the National Library NLA

Comic books for young adults: a guide for librarians

Every picture tells a story Australian article 

Graphic Attraction Graphic Novels In Libraries Allison Lee

Graphic experiment pays dividends ALIA incite article

Graphic novels make a difference ALIA incite article

Graphic Novels STRL

Holy heroes, Batman, this stuff is serious SMH article

Grovel.org.uk

Graphic Novels for Younger Readers 

 

A novel concept Age article  

Recommended Reads: Graphic Novels MLS Illinois

 

Journals

 

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Bookbird

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Children's Bookwatch

The Horn Book

Magpies and Literature Base  Index

Orana

National Library of Australia News

The School Magazine (NSW)

Viewpoint

 

 

 

Literacy

 

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12 Rules for Reading John Cotton Dana

Critical Literacy (TasEd)

Five Finger test

Reading and Language Information Centre

Reading to your child

Secondary Literacy (NZ)

The TRAITS of an Effective Reader

When I get stuck on a word in a book A poem for parents

Young Australians Reading Report

Literature

 

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Australian Storytelling

 

The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary

OzLit

Project Gutenberg Web Site and HomePage

Project Gutenberg of Australia

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry

 

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  A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Forms of poetry for children

 

The Mother Goose pages

 

Poet's Corner

 

 

 

Publishers

 

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Allen & Unwin

Currency Press

HarperCollins Children's (Australia)

Hawker Brownlow Education

Heinemann Interactive

Koala Books

Koorong Books

Lothian

Magabala Books

Pearson Education

Penguin Books Australia

Puffin Books

Scholastic

 

University Of Queensland Press

 

 

 

Reviews

 

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Children's and Young Adult Literature - Book reviews by staff and students of La Trobe University, Bendigo

Cool reads (UK)

KidsReads Reviews (US)

Reading Matters (UK)

Teenreads Reviews (US)

YARA

 

 

 

Specialist Bookshops

 

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Books Illustrated

The Children's Bookshop

Gleebooks

Pages and Pages

Shearer's Children's Bookshop

Sealight Books Graphic novels

 

 

 

Storytelling

 

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Australian Storytelling

Handbook for storytellers JMU

Storynet

 

 

The whys and hows of reading aloud

 

 

 

Teaching Resources

 

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abcteach Activities

 

 

Aboriginal Dreaming 2 Lesson Unit

Animals should definitely not borrow library books

 

 

Australian Authors Web-and_Flow Hunt

 

Author cards

Author profile From Batemans Bay CAP

Book Back Chat (NZ Book Raps)

Book Raps

Can it be for me? Book Selection mnemonic

Currency Press online study guides Select Education Resources

Book Units from US

 

 

Doucette Library of Teaching Resources

Dreamtime Stories

English Units (NZ)

Five Finger test

Frog and Toad Cyberguide

Great Reading Webquest Gaye Geldard

 

 

How to Keep a Literary Reading Log

How to keep your books happy

The Hungry Caterpillar

 

International Author's Tea Webquest

Interview Book Characters

It's a party Author study

 

Leap into a Literature Program

Literature Circles

 

Logging up the reading mileage (NZ)

My favourite author webquest

More ideas than you'll ever need for Book Reports

Pamela Allen

 

Picture Books 3 Lesson Unit

 

Poetry for pleasure unit (NZ)

 

Read away Unit (NZ)

Readers' Theatre (Aaron Shepard)

The School Magazine (NSW)

Science Fiction Web Quest  (QLD.) Upper Primary

Science Fiction and fantasy (NZ)

 

SCORE CyberGuides

Unconventional Short Story Unit Year 12

Secondary Literacy (NZ)

TASED English Teaching Strategies

 

Up Close and Personal - Autobiography/Biography Unit Plan

"Which Author? Which Book?” From Batemans Bay CAP

 

Write a book review

Write a Reading Journal

Writers at work Unit Plan

Writing a Children’s Book 6 Lesson Unit

Year 8 Author Study

TheYear 8 General Reading Program

For Activities on individual Australian authors and titles take a look at the Australian Authors page

 

Youth issues webquest (Tooloola State High)

 

 

 

Traditional Literature

 

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Aesop's Fables

 

Animal Myths and Legends

Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Legends

Fables of Jean De La Fontaine

Fables online

Fingerplays, Action Poems, Nursery Rhymes,and Songs

Folktales: what are they

 

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Grimms Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy Tales and Stories

 

Magictails

Mother Goose Rebus Rhymes

The Mother Goose pages

Myth writing with Jane Yolen Workshop

Myths, Folktales & Fairy Tales (Scholastic)

Project Gutenberg

Stories of the Dreaming

 

Tall tales

 

 

 

Et Cetera

 

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Children's Literature online lectures

Children’s Literature: Vehicle for the transmission of national culture and identity or the victim of massmarket globalisation?

Developing a love of reading: why young adult literature is important Mary Owen 2003

Comic Books for Young Adults: A Librarian's guide

 

Drawing the Line: Defining Children's Picture Books Stephanie Owen Reeder

Falling Forward: CYSS [NSW] Nancy Booker Honour Lecture 2000

The Growth of Australian Children's Book Publishing 1890-1940

'The literary construction of 'Harry  Potter' in page and screen based formats.' April 2002 .pdf format

 

 

Little readers SMH Article 

Picturing Childhood: The Evolution of the IllustratedChildren's Book 

Songs for the classrooom

Young Australians reading Report

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