CyberLit: Online Connections to Children's Literature for the Primary Grades

by Marilyn Dover Newman

Overview

This book is a compilation of outstanding children's authors' websites, children's literature websites, and notable storybook character websites that go beyond the ordinary content. Provided at your fingertips, this directory helps teachers to obtain biographic information about authors and illustrators, to learn how authors get their ideas for stories, to learn how books are made and illustrations created, to learn how to extend the books within the framework of the curriculum, and to know which websites to go to for recommended lesson plans and book-related activities for classroom projects and units.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810849037
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/25/2003
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Marilyn Dover Newman has been an elementary school media specialist for Broward County (Florida) public schools since 1988. She has taught media education courses as an adjunct instructor for Nova Southeastern University, Florida, and has authored numerous grants in the area of preschool literacy.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Jan Brett 3 Marc Brown's Arthur 4 Eric Carle 5 Denise Fleming 6 Kevin Henkes 7 Willian Joyce 8 Robert Munsch 9 Laurs Joffe Numeroff 10 Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit 11 H. A. and Margret Rey's Curious George 12 William Steig 13 Rosemary Wells 14 Children;s Picture Book Illustration 15 A Treasury of Lesson Plans for the Caldecott Medal Books

Editorial Reviews

Offers a helping hand to those looking for material on a dozen popular primary-grades authors/characters, from Jan Brett to Curious George to Rosemary Wells...There's an abundance of material that should provide curricular expansion, exploration, and support, and not just for educators; some sites are child-aimed and some librarian-aimed as well.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Offers a helping hand to those looking for material on a dozen popular primary-grades authors/characters, from Jan Brett to Curious George to Rosemary Wells...There's an abundance of material that should provide curricular expansion, exploration, and support, and not just for educators; some sites are child-aimed and some librarian-aimed as well.--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

From the Publisher

Offers a helping hand to those looking for material on a dozen popular primary-grades authors/characters, from Jan Brett to Curious George to Rosemary Wells...There's an abundance of material that should provide curricular expansion, exploration, and support, and not just for educators; some sites are child-aimed and some librarian-aimed as well.

Bulletin Of The Center For Children's Books