Favorite Authors
Dav Pilkey's Extra Crunchy Website O'Fun - Author/illustrator Dav Pilkey of "The Adventures of Captain Underpants" has a predictably unpredictable website with lots of interesting information, games, and fun!
Eric Carle's Official Website - Eric Carle is a virtuoso at creating children's picture books and is known especially for his enormously popular stories, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider.
Jan Brett's Home Page- This site belongs to the children's author Jan Brett who has written books such as The Mitten and Berlioz the Bear. Explore all the activities, art projects, & book information.
StephanieMeyer.com - Official site offers news, biography, projects, information on the Twilight series, calendar and gear.
Stories
Storyline Online- Listen and watch as celebrities (Elijah Wood, Al Gore, and Amanda Bynes to name a few) read stories to you. Works best with high speed internet.
International Children's Digital Library- This site lets you look at books from other countries that are in nearly 100 other languages. This is a great site for kids who speak more than one language.
Starfall- Free online stories to help children through the stages of learning to read on their own. This is a good resource for home schoolers.
Writing & Grammar
Word Central- Try these word games!
Revise Wise- When you have to practice reading, writing, spelling, and grammar kind of fun. There are some learning games as well.
Poetry Forms- This site makes writing poetry a little easier. It gives you some parts of the poem to start out with and you fill in the blanks with the words you want. The list of poems is on the left side of the page.
