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| Title: Picturing Books: A Website About Picture Books URL: http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org |
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| Description: Explore examples of the different types of media used in picture books: collage, charcoal, gouache, watercolors, and many more. View examples of artist styles in picture book illustration, including Surrealism, Impressionism, Folkart, and more. |
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| Title: Kay Vandergrift's Learning About the Author and Illustrator Page URL: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/AuthorSite/index.html |
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| Description: Rutgers University Professor Kay Vandergrift's children's literature websites contain a career's worth of insight. Topics covered include illustration, a history of children's literature, and gender and culture in children's picture books. Visit this site when you have time, because there is so much here. |
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| Title: Children's Literature Index: K-12 Lesson Ideas for Literature URL: http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/ |
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| Description: Type in a title, author, or illustrator and get a list of teaching resources. You may limit your results to websites only. |
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| Title: Exploring Everyday Folklore with Nina Jaffe URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/folkloreexp_index.htm |
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| Description: In this workshop, Nina Jaffe the author of Tales of the Seventh Day and many other folktale books (and Bank Street faculty member), introduces us to many different kinds of folklore and shares tips for researching, recording, and creating folklore from our own lives. |
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| Title: Teenreads.com for Reviews, Excerpts & Interviews URL: http://www.teenreads.com/index.asp |
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| Description: Book reviews and online discussions for teens interested in reading adult books. |
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| Title: 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know URL: http://kids.nypl.org/reading/recommended2.cfm?ListID=61 |
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| Description: A list from the New York Public Library. |
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| Title: Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents URL: http://www.csusm.edu/csb/ |
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| Description: This site is available in Spanish and English. There is a searchable database of books in Spanish, recommended book lists, related links, and more. |
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| Title: Page by Page / Page par Page URL: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/pagebypage/ |
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| Description: A site from the National Library of Canada about the creation of a children's book. |
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Lisa's Book ListsURL:http://streetcat.bankstreet.edu/children/booklists.html |
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| Description:Summer Reading Lists, Diversity List, Dialect List, Memoir List, and many more that are used by the Bank Street School for Children. | |
The Newbery AwardURL:http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberymedal.htm |
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| Description: Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to an author for distinguished contribution to American literature for children. | |
The Caldecott AwardURL:http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.htm |
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| Description: Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
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