Children's Book Award Winners
Award-Winning Children's Books - Summaries of the books that have won Caldecott and Newbery awards, and biographies of the authors.
Children's Book Awards - Listings of children's book awards (U.S, British, Canadian, Australian, and others).

 

Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books
Ask the Author - Information on current children's authors. Students can ask questions of authors.
Children's Literature Web Guide - Internet sources related to books for children and young adults.
Vandergrift's Children's Literature Web Guide

 

Literature, Mostly for Middle and High School
Project Bartleby: The Public Library of the Internet - Includes works of Dickinson, Keats, Melville, Shelley, Whitman, Wilde, and Wordsworth. A good site for English teachers and high school students. From Columbia University.
Berkeley Digital Library - A collection of full texts of many authors plus photographs, documents, and essays.
American Studies Web: Literature - A large collection of literature and literary criticism resources.
BookWire - A comprehensive set of book resources, publishers, libraries, best-seller lists, and more. Also includes The BookWire Reading Room, a collection of online books.
Shakespeare - Information about Shakespeare's plays and poetry, including full text searching of Shakespeare's works.
The Tech Classics Archive - Searchable archive of over 375 Greek and Roman texts in English.
WWW Medieval Resources - Index to medieval resources on the Web. This is a good research site for students and teachers doing work on the medieval period.
Banned Books On-line - Information on books that have been banned or censored by legal authorities.

References, Writing Tips, and Citing Electronic Sources
Merriam-Webster Online - The online version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Online version of Bartlett's quotations.
The Elements of Style - The standard style reference, by William Strunk, written in 1918. The table of contents is superb; each section is a link, so you can easily find exactly what you're looking for.
The evolving standard of referencing electronic references using APA style format
MLA style citations of electronic resources
Virtual Facts on File - A vast collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, English/Foreign Language dictionaries, and other reference sources.
On-Line Reference Works - A smaller collection of reference works. This one has many very useful resources, and has the advantage of not using graphics or tables, so it should be quicker to load and usable from more browsers.

 

Updated 6/20/06