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Resources for Learning - Years 4-7
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  AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS in our library  
bullet Online reading for Durack Dragons
bullet Deltora - a land of magic and monsters - the official site of Emily Rodda's great series of books. Info on the author, illustrator and characters - and games too!
bullet Goosebumps : If you're not too scared you can investigate this popular series
bullet Harry Potter Special entrances in this site for Witches & Wizards, and for Muggles
bullet MysteryNets Kid's Mysteries - Mysteries to solve, plus puzzles and games
bullet The Peetnik Mysteries
bullet The Never Ending Story - is a choose-your-own-path adventure story- like you might read in a book. But you can add to the tale where ever you like. Whatever you or someone else adds will become part of the tale, anything you can think of. So it's also a game.
bullet Survive Dicken's London - The streets of Victorian London are DANGEROUS.  Can you survive and find your way to Dicken's hideaway in Rochester?
bullet Cool School - Click on "Books" or roam on  John Marsden's home page to find Cool School .
bullet Cricket Magazine : New stories and activities every month
bullet StoryPlace : the Children's Digital Library - Try the Elementary Library or the Book Zone
bullet Giggle Poetry : #1 site for fun poetry
bullet YARA - Young Australian Readers' Awards - the first national, online students choice award in Australia. Read students' reviews of the latest titles from the best Australian authors, read the books for yourself and then, 
in October, vote for your favourite
bullet DMag - Aussie kids magazine.  Read the paper  version in our library, the online version her
bullet Writer's Toolkit from Stories on the Web.  Tips from authors to help you get started, to write a good opening, construct a plots, create a character.
bullet Treasure Island

What to Read Next

bullet What should I read next?   Enter the name of a book you liked and find out the titles of similar stories you might enjoy
bullet Booklists (for young Australians) - heaps of lists of books to help you choose your next "good read "
bullet Kid's Book Zone - Fiction Favourites - some good recommendations grouped by genre.  OR...Check the Good Reads 4 Girls and Best Books 4 Boys
bullet Reader's Cafe - New Zealand site where you can find out what other kids like to read
bullet The Book Hive
bullet Reading Matters Bookchooser - Find the perfect book with this online tool.  If we don't have the book, our public library may have it.

Audio Books
bullet Kids' Corner - Real Audio files of some classic children's stories
bullet BookPALS Storyline Online videos of actors reading children's books - activities and lesson plans too.

 
bullet Jeannie Baker
bullet Duncan Ball
bullet Di Bates
bullet Janeen Brian
bullet Margaret Clark
bullet Terry Denton
bullet Mike Dumbleton
bullet Hazel Edwards
bullet Rachel Flynn
bullet Mem Fox
bullet Richard J Frankland
bullet Jackie French
bullet Libby Gleeson
bullet Morris Gleitzman
bullet Andy Griffiths

 
bullet Libby Hathorn's World
bullet John Heffernan
bullet The Paul Jennings File
bullet Deborah Lisson
bullet John Marsden
bullet Geoffrey McSkimming
bullet James Moloney
bullet Sally Morgan
bullet Jill Morris
bullet Sally Odgers
bullet Wendy Orr
bullet Roy Pond
bullet Natalie Jane Prior
bullet Emily Rodda
bullet Gillian Rubenstein
bullet Michael Salmon
bullet Ruth Starke

 

INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS in our Library
bullet Judy Blume
bullet Beverley Cleary
bullet Joy Cowley
bullet Roald Dahl
bullet Lynley Dodd
bullet Gary Paulsen
bullet J.K.Rowling
bullet R.L. Stine

 

 

  

OTHER LISTS OF AUTHORS

bullet Oxford University Press Children's Authors and Illustrators 
bullet Stories from the Web 11-14  AuthorZone - mostly U.K.
bullet Allen & Unwin Children's Authors
bullet The Author Yellow Pages - A searchable directory of author pages
bullet Vandergrift's Author pages - Browse alphabetically by surname
     
 

Resources for Teaching
   
bullet Ipswich Teacher-Librarian's Network - produces resources for Book Week annually and conducts a Literature festival
bullet EdNA  Books and Reading Group  Public group sharing resources on children's literature- lists, wikis, dowloads, Reader's Cup advice...
bullet SCORE Cyberguides - From California - supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Predominantly US authors. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.  Some links may be outdated.
bullet  Linking Literature With Learning -
 
bullet Booktalks Quick and Simple - lists almost 1000 booktalks for P-12 under author, title, subject, interest and new, intended to be used by school library media specialists and teachers.  Mostly USA authors.

 
     

Updated March 2007