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What's out there for Kids

  • Web sites for Authors, Series, Writers and Awards

Most of the well-known children's authors have their own Web sites check out our links to some of the most popular authors in our library. Also sites for children's book awards to keep up with the latest and greatest award winners and sites for some of those ever-popular series and special books.

If you are into writing stories yourself post them on the web through the writers sites.

  • Authors and Series

Animorphs - http://scholastic.com/animorphs/
Find out about the author K.A. Applegate and the books.

The Baby-Sitters Club - http://scholastic.com/babysittersclub
What's the latest at the Baby-Sitters Club?

Gavin Bishop - http://kiwishop.com/cgi-local/shop.pl/page=gavin.html
Celebrated New Zealand author Gavin Bishop and his books.

Roald Dahl Home Page - http://www.roalddahl.org/
Information on Road Dahl and his books, not the official home page.

Brian Jacques - http://www.redwall.org/dave/jacques.html
For all those fans of the Redwall books.

Paul Jennings - http://www.pauljennings.com.au/
An interview with Paul Jennings and those waited for new books.

C.S.Lewis - http://www.narnia.com
One of the best C.S.Lewis sites. Many photographs and links. Find out all about the Chronicles of Narnia.

Margaret Mahy - http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Library/Kidstuff/margaretmahy.html
Our most well known New Zealand author. Check out the Margaret Mahy collection and link to other sites.

John Marsden - http://www.ozemail.com.au/~andrewf/john.html
The home page for the author of Tomorrow when the war began and Letters from the inside, not to be missed.

A.A Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh - http://www.penguin.com/usa/pooh/index.html
Bits about Pooh from the publisher.

Philip Pullman - http://www.randomhouse.com/features/goldencompass/
The author and his books including The subtle knife.

J.R.R. Tolkien - http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/relipper/tolkien/rootpage.html
Try this site for almost everything Tolkien.

  • Awards

Children's Book Awards Metasite - http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/awards.html
International awards list from the Children's literature Web Guide.

  • Writers and writing on the Web

Bits and Pieces - http://www.ryzome.com/bits.htm
Electronic magazine for kids & teens to publish their writing and art.

KidPub - http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub
A site for publishing stories and poems written by kids and reading writing by others.

Kids on the Web - http://www.zen.org/%7Ebrendan/kids.html
Another site for children to write and post them on the Web for everyone to read.

  • Hot Sites for what's popular

Official Star Wars Home Page - http://starwars.com/
Check this out for everything Star Wars. "The site"

Pokemon World - http://www.pokemon.com/
Visit this site to find out everything about any Pokemon.

 

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