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Magnetic Poetry: Create your own poems by dragging words around. |
| Romantic Chronology: This site contains a chronological list of major events, both historical and cultural that helped to define the Romantic period. Links lead to resources for authors and events. |
808: Literature: General Collections
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Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations: "A searchable, cross-indexed, listing of many familiar quotations, each traced to the original author." |
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Bookhive: This is guide to children’s literature and books containing recommended books. Listen to an oral story or submit your own story to this site. |
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Children's Literature Web Guide: This site gives links to resources related to books for young adults and children. Links include stories, authors, awards, organizations, folklore, myths and legends, booklists, and poetry. |
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Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: "This is a collection of reviews of great 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." |
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Guys Read: This web-based initiative begun by author Jon Scieszka, with the intent to motivate boys to read, is a great resource for teachers, parents, and students, in search of “boy-friendly” titles. The site contains features such as “find a book” by favorite author, favorite title, or subject search; list of suggested books categorized by “young,” “middle,” or “older guys; and a list of links to official author and illustrator sites. |
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International Children’s Digital Library: “Explore the fun – read 324 free children books online…” |
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It’s Up To You, Gumshoe!: Find facts from the early years of mystery to the present, the history of mystery, and a mystery scavenger hunt. |
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Literary Criticism: Learn more about authors and their works. |
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Newbery Medal Home Page: "The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." |
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Research Paper Help.net: You will find a collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school research projects at this site. |
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Author Links: Yahoo’s links to authors on the web. |
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Eragon: Discover the world of the fantasy book Eragon by Christopher Paolini. This interactive site explores this fantasy world and includes a pronunciation glossary, activities, and news about his forthcoming books. |
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Jean Craighead George: Learn about this author who wrote My Side of the Mountain. "Jean Craighead George has shared her love of nature with generations of young readers in over 80 books, both fiction and non-fiction." Visit her web site to see what she's been doing lately! |
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Index to Internet Sites--Children's and Young Adults' Authors & Illustrators: This site contains an alphabetical listing of hundreds of authors and illustrators to help you find information about them. |
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Into the Wardrobe: The C.S. Lewis Web Site: This site is devoted to C.S. Lewis and his writings. The site includes his fiction, non-fiction, poetry, papers and speeches, quotes, photographs, and other Lewis links on the Web. |
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An Outline of American Literature: The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets: An introduction to this period is given as well as short overviews of the lives and accomplishments of several authors of this period, including Thoreau, Emerson, and Whitman. |
| Gary Paulsen: Biographical information on this author and information about his books can be found at this site. |
| A Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance: This site provides brief biographies of poets of the Harlem Renaissance as well as providing many of their poems. |
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Glossary of Poetic Devices: Brief definitions on the craft of poetry writing is given as well as biographies of 12 famous poets. |
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| Semantic Rhyming Dictionary: Enter a word to find its perfect rhymes, partial rhymes, homophones, semantic siblings, synonyms, definition, related words, and pictures. A thesaurus and links to other reference tools are given. |
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The Official Brian Jacques Homepage: This is the personal web site Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall books. His stories are set in medieval times with "peace-loving mice, moles, shrews, squirrels" as heroes. |
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Visit this site to find Shakespeare's complete, annotated works. The best feature of the site is its hyperlink annotations, an essential aid in understanding English language of the time. |
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English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660): This site contains much information on such well-known poets as John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, and John Milton. |
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Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: Discover the works, life & times, theatre, criticism, renaissance, sources, best sites and more surrounding this amazing writer. |
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Modern British Poetry: This is the complete text of Modern British Poetry, first published in 1920 by Louis Untermeyer. It is a collection of British poetry from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Works by Minefields, Sitwell, Yeats, Housman, Kipling, Joyce, Hardy, Wilde, and others are included. |
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The Poetry Zone: Roger Steven’s humorous verse can be found here as well as a place to read and post poetry. |
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Representative Poetry On-line: This site includes 1,650 poems in English by about 260 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the 20th century. You can access the poetry by poet, title, first line, date, or keyword. |
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Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603): Index of biographies, essays, images, full-text of works, and scholarly articles on the major English literary figures of the period, as well as links to other sites covering general aspects of the era. Some of the 28 authors included are: Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Foxe, Edward De Vere, Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Southwell, and Mary Sidney Herbert. |
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The Web Concordances and Workbooks: This is a comprehensive list of words used in selected poems with the passage of works by Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Hopkins. There are workbooks or literary study guides for Blake, Coleridge, and Keats. |
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