Scholastic's Visiting Author Series!
Bulletin Board Discussions & Moderated Author Chats
Jan and Stan Berenstain
http://www.berenstainbears.com/
Multimedia and interactive, this site is more about the characters than the
authors.
Judy Blume
http://www.judyblume.com/menu-main.html
Lots of interviews and personal information. Caution: Does include information
on her adult books as well.
Jan Brett
http://www.janbrett.com/
Lots of printables and activities, very child and teacher friendly.
Eric Carle
http://www.eric-carle.com/
this site is a bit bare; biography, schedules. Really more for adults than children.
Matt Christopher
http://www.mattchristopher.com/
Site dedicated to the author of sports books for children. Also try the Internet
Public Library link at http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/askauthor/Christopher.html
Beverly Cleary
http://www.beverlycleary.com/
Includes teacher resources for both her childrens' and young adult books, along
with games, biography and the rest.
Roald
Dahl
http://www.roalddahl.com
The official site. Sections for kids only & teachers only. Great graphics
Paula Danziger
http://www.scholastic.com/titles/paula/
Scholastic's site for the author of the "Amber Brown" series.
Tomie DePaola
http://www.tomie.com/main.html
The official site. Contains bio & book info, but also a neat section with
his thoughts about life, being an artist and the creative process. He updates
this monthly.
Gordon Korman
http://www.gordonkorman.com/
His official site. Lots of adventure books for teens. Book reviews available
with excerpts from the stories.
Lois Lowry
http://www.loislowry.com/
Speeches, biography, information on her books.
Mercer Mayer
http://www.littlecritter.com/
Multimedia site, including printables, author notes, music.
Mary Pope Osborne
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-osborne-mary-pope.asp
& http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/magictreehouse/
Two nice sites about the author, the "Magic Treehouse" series and
her other works.
...EXTRA Magic Tree House new book to accompany the Olympics
along with links to Olympic resources for kids
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/magictreehouse/olympics_research.html
Barbara
Park
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/junieb/
Junie B. Jones series
Gary Paulsen
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen/
This site is from the publisher, so it lacks the more personal feel of some
others. Mainly has just the biography.
Patricia Polacco
http://www.patriciapolacco.com
Includes separate areas for kids, a “teachers’ lounge” for teachers,
and many printables and activities. Caution: does have a chat program, but most
filters should block this.
J. K. Rowling
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/
This is Scholastic's "meet the author" page. Some other good resources
for Ms. Rowling and Harry Potter include: Teacher Resource File http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/rowling.htm,
Scholastic http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp,
Warner Brothers http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/main/homepage/home.html
and http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/home.html,
The BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/specials/2001/harry_potter/default.stm
and even Daniel Radcliff (Harry) has a page with links for the die-hard fan
http://www.danradcliffe.co.uk/ .
(Again, watch chat rooms & message boards on some of these).
Ron Roy
http://www.ronroy.com/
The official site by the author of the "A to Z Mysteries" series.
Cynthia Rylant
http://www.cynthiarylant.com/index.htm
http://childrensbooks.about.com/cs/authorsillustrato/a/cynthiarylant.htm
Jon Scieszka
http://www.guysread.com/
This is a very different author’s site. Mr. Scieszka has started an initiative
to help boys get into reading. It’s a very unique site. If there is one
site to check out on the list this week, this may be it.
Shel Silverstein
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html
The official site. Choose bandwidth. Has a section for kids only as well as
items for teachers & parents.
Lemony Snicket
http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
The official website, full of the same acerbic wit as the books. Games, biography,
etc are included.
Chris
Van Allsburg http://www.eduplace.com/author/vanallsburg/
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/vanallsburg/
Teacher Resource file http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/allsburg.htm
Tracey West
http://www.traceywest.com/
The official website for the author of the Pixie
Tricks and Scream Shop series, the Pokémon chapter books, and others.
Also check out her Pixie Tricks website at http://www.pixietricks.com/!
Her new series "Scream
Shop" is a Pick-Your-Path series, which means that the reader gets
to choose what happens in the story!
E.B. White
http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/author/author/white/
Info on the author & story summaries. Also try
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebwhite.htm for additional bio info.
Laura
Ingalls Wilder
http://www.lauraingallswilder.com/
Info & additional links about the author. Also try http://www.littlehousebooks.com
"Come to the Little House" for activities, teaching resources, recipes,
trivia and more.
General Author Resources:
The Educational Paperback Association has links to many authors we know and love who many not have their own website. Its worth the look if you haven’t found your favorite author listed. http://www.edupaperback.org/
Kids Read Another site of some use, is: http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/authors.asp
Scholastic Teachers Author Studies is a nice resource for finding author info. The link is quite long: http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorstudies.jhtml;schsessionid=WML1Q2VLSBKAUCQVAKUCFFAKCUBJYIV4 so I'd recommend telling your students to go to http://teacher.scholastic.com/ and then click "more authors & books".
Teacher Resources: Index to Internet Sites - Children & Young Adult's Authors & Illustrators http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm
Additional Language Arts & Reading Resources: http://www.mcvts.org/ettc/links-lang_arts&rdg.htm
As always, if you have a link that you'd like to see added to this page,
please email me!
Last updated: October 20, 2004