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Aesop’s Fables
This online version of Aesop’s Fables includes the full public domain texts—638 fables. There are images from the Dore illustrations and the beginnings of audio texts.

Aesop’s Fables Read
Aesop’s Fables,
in two versions for each tale, all with illustrations done by students in a computing art class.

The Alice Fan Club
The characters in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Alice series endure all these dilemmas—and more. This fan area is your chance to read all about Alice and her friends, make some new friends of your own, and hear from Phyllis Reynolds Naylor herself.

American Girls Series
An American Girl is a unique current girls’ series by Valerie Tripp, Janet Beele Shaw, Connie Porter, Susan S. Adler, and Maxine Schur. The series title is American Girls Collection. The American Girls stories are told through the eyes of girls living in different time periods. This site expands on the stories and has a club for fans of American Girls.

Animorphs Page
The home page for this popular paperback series of young people with the capacity to morph into animals of great power in order to fight alien enemies. Written by K. A. Applegate.

The Arthur Page
For Arthur fans everywhere! This site is maintained by PBS and features games and children’s art. A very popular site for younger children who love the character created by Marc Brown.

Baby-Sitters’ Club Page
What’s happening at the Baby-Sitters’ Club? Visit this site to learn about the characters and adventures.

Berenstain Bears
The official Berenstain Bears site, includes activities and lists of books.

Bookmuse's Kid's Corner
This site promotes the reading of great books through provoking questions and support materials that encourage reading and book discussion. Arranged by reading level and genre.

Children’s Storybook Online
Read lots of exciting stories like “Round Bird Can’t Fly,” “Grow Your Own Gargoyle,” and “The Wumpalump.”

Fun with Spot
Fans of Eric Hill's Spot books will enjoy playing these games and reading the animated versions of some of these books. Shock wave plugin required.

Goodnight Stories
This is the place to come if you want to curl up with a good cyber book or just play a game.

Grammar Gorillas
Online game for students to identify parts of speech.
Guide to Grammar & Writing
One of the most thorough and extensive sites on grammar and writing. There is a random quiz generator that makes quizzes for print out or to be taken online.

Guys Read
Author Jon Scieszka makes suggestions for a literacy program that connects boys with books they want to read.

HarperChildrens.com
A place to do fun things, learn about books, and meet authors. This is an exciting site maintained by HarperCollins for its children’s books.

Harry Potter
Scholastic has created a fun-filled site for Harry Potter fans of all ages. Click on this site and find a trivia game, a pronunciation guide, owl posts and more.

Kidsreads.com
This site offers a place for parents and children to explore books and their reviews.

Lemony Snicket
As Lemony Snicket says, this site is filled with "dreadful images," "wretched information," and "unnerving games."

Little Planet Times
An online newspaper for kids by kids from Little Planet Publishing.

Magic School Bus Page
What are Ms. Frizzle and her class doing now? This site encourages you to work with many aspects of the Magic School Bus Adventures.

My Little House on the Prairie Home Page
From Jennifer Slegg, a fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, this site explores a classic series of books by Wilder.

Narnia
This elegantly designed site devoted to C. S. Lewis's fantasy classics provides information about the books, the creatures and people of Narnia.

Online Adventures of Captain Underpants
Scholastic's site for fans of Captain Underpants is not to be missed. Of course, there is a load of "fun stuff" - Click-o-Rama, Professor Poopypants' Name Change-o-Chart 2000, and Make your own Comic. In addition, there is information about the author and the characters.

The Peter Rabbit Web Site
The official and definitive site on the world of Beatrix Potter. Potter's favorite characters and other aspects of her work can be viewed at a wide selection of art exhibitions, theatrical performances, displays and local events.

The Phantom Tollbooth
Information on this favorite book by Norman Juster, including bibliographies and other things.

The Reading Corner
Student site which lists books by category. Might be fun to check out together to get ideas for books.

Random House Kids
Explore online with your favorite books and characters; you can even submit your own book reviews for online publication

Seamonkey Oz Home Page
Here you will find Oz-related links, philosophical musings, creative writing, and lots of artwork by the inhabitants of Oz created by Baum. Many of these Ozians are very young, but they have e-mail addresses and would like to hear from you.

Seussville
The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss’s playground in cyberspace. You can play games, chat with the Cat in the Hat, win prizes, find out about new Dr. Seuss books and CD-ROMs, and much, much more!

Stories from the Web
Using story starters or going solo, children can write their own tales, poems or book reviews and hang them in the on-line gallery. Or, read a story from one of your favorite authors.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Web Site
Oz first started as a book by Frank L. Baum, then a series of books. The incredible world of Oz is explored in these pages. There is much to know about this wonderful land, and on these pages you will be told quite a lot about it, and helped to find out where to find out more.


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