Links Related to
Mona Kerby's The Author
Corner
http://www.carr.org/mae/kerr-web.htm
This particular
section provides information and links regarding recipients of the Margaret A. Edwards Award.
These authors include M.E. Kerr, Robert Cormier, S.E. Hinton, Judy Blume and Madeleine
L'Engle. The rest of the site is also devoted to children's and YA literature.
not "kiddie lit" nor "children's
lit'rature"
http://www.sharyn.org/authors.html
At this site, you will
find a comprehensive listing of resources about YA and children's authors, illustrators,
publishers, reviewers and more.
Kay E. Vandergrift's Children's
and Young Adult Literature
Pages
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/authork.html
Regarding M.E. Kerr, there are numerous excerpts from reviews of her work at this site. Kay
Vandergrift's site encompasses a wide spectrum of young adult authors and strives to provide
visitors with information about each author. I encourage you to visit!
About.com: Your
Questions Answered - Young Adult
Books
http://yabooks.miningco.com/blanswers.htm?pid=2783&cob=home
About.com is a service that provides "a guidesite for every topic" by "a company certified
subject specialist." In the case of young adult literature, the guide is Kim Pauley, who recently
recommended this site to a reader in search of information about M.E. Kerr.
Addison Public Library (Addison,
IL)
http://www.addison.lib.il.us
On this particular page, you will
find links to info about children's authors and publishers.
Wheevandor's Favorite
Authors
http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/wheevandor/aut.html
Links
to sites about various authors.
Young Adult Libraries
Help/Homepage
http://yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/yateenweb.html
July
picks for interesting links.
The Big Busy
House
http://www.harperchildrens.com/scripts/wl.aspl
HarperCollins Children's Books Page.
Young Adult Lit Books &
More
http://www.mfworks.com/mohnstad/home.htm
Interesting
links in categories including fiction, non-fiction, films and zines and mags.
Author Links for
Children and Young
Adults
http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/subject/reading/authors.html
Nancy
Matson
http://www.nancymatson.com/EVIE.HTM
Author Nancy
Matson reviews Deliver Us From Evie
Study
Web
http://www.studyweb.com/links/3366.html
Links to help you
with school work.
bookreporter.com
or try this link and search for M. E. Kerr: bookreporter.com
http://www.bookreporter.com
Excerpts from M. E. Kerr's books, interview and bio.
Author profile: M. E. Kerr
http://yabooks.about.com/teens/yabooks/library/authors/bl_mekerr.htm
Contact information available here. You may also visit About.com's Young Adult section for other author profiles.
Louise Fitzhugh Site
http://www.ils.unc.edu/~winta/fitzhugh.htm
Kaya: A publisher of Asian/diasporic literature and culture
http://www.kaya.com/
Okay, I admit, I submitted my site as a link. But I am a longtime supporter of this not-for-profit publishing house.
Charlotte Zolotow's Site
http://www.charlottezolotow.com/M.E.Kerr.htm
Before she retired, Charlotte Zolotow edited M.E. Kerr's books. Read M.E. Kerr's thoughts on being edited by her.
Los Angeles Unified School District Library Services
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/instruct/itb/libserv/book1.htm
Lockhart School Library Media Center (Lockhart, SC)
http://www.union.k12.sc.us/lhs/YALinks.htm
Wisconsin
Educational Communications Board
http://www.ecb.org/surf/books.htm
Web sites on children’s books and their authors.
DiDah: The Search Desk
http://65.26.125.195/links/LangArts/Authors/YoungAdult/youngad.htm
Fee-based site of resources for educators by educators.
Kids' Long Island
http://library.thewebstop.com/northport/authors.htm
Site by The Northport/East Northport Public Library and the
Northport/East Northport School Libraries.
Kstiles.com and
Bringing the Outsider In: A Unit Plan for Understanding and Accepting Differences
http://www.kstiles.com and http://www.kstiles.com/NCTE_Presentation.htm
This site has numerous links and includes a unit plan, by Keith Stiles at Western Carolina University. He focuses on The Painted Bird, The Chocolate War and Night Kites.
Belleville High School Media Center
http://students.resa.net/belleville_kennedy/Fiction&Reading/ficfav_contemporary.htm
Student Fiction Favorites: Contemporary Novels - links to author sites.
Cynthia Leitich Smith Children's Literature Resources
http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/auth-illJ-Q.htm#k
Tilford Middle School Vinton, Iowa
http://www.vinton-shellsburg.k12.ia.us/tms/seventh/rdg7/ar/ijk.html
Focus on Fiction
http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/centoff/cmis/eval/fiction/authors/at13.htm
Author Web Sites at Perfection Learning
http://www.perfectionlearning.com/authors/
Marilyn Singer: Author of over 60 books for Children and Young Adults.
http://users.aol.com/writerbabe/marilyn.htm
Author Marilyn Singer edited two collections of short stories M.E. Kerr contributed to: STAY TRUE: Short Stories for Strong Girls (Scholastic) and I BELIEVE IN WATER:
Twelve Brushes with Religion (HarperCollins). She is also the Host of AOL Children's Writers Chat. There is an interesting FAQ about Children's Writing and quotes from various writers, including M.E. Kerr about "what is a short story?"
Young Adult Books Online
http://www.yabonline.com
YABO is the only interactive publisher of reviews of young adult
literature. You can submit reviews of books or of other reviews.
Purple Socks: A Louise Fitzhugh
Tribute Site
http://purple-socks.webmage.com/
This is a wonderful site about a close friend of M. E. Kerr's, Louise Fitzhugh, best known for her book Harriet the Spy.
Young Adult Books at Embracing the Child
http://www.embracingthechild.com/youngadult.html
Lists "no fluff" Young Adult authors and their books.
The Electric Eclectic
http://bloxword.ca/author.htm or for the main page go to: http://bloxword.ca/jimsbmks.htm
More than 1500 active links to sites "for writers and lovers of words and language."
New York Public Library: Resources for Young Adults: Authors
http://www2.nypl.org/home/branch/links/
Sara's Library
http://www.100megspop2.com/saraslibrary/k/mekerr/
Links to author sites.
Author Nancy Garden's Web Site
http://www.www.nancygarden.com
"This is the only authorized web site for author-teacher-speaker Nancy Garden." She may
be best known for her book Annie On My Mind, the focus of First Amendment discussion among other things. This site has
plenty of information about her other books for young readers as well as pre-teen and teen readers.
M. E. Kerr Scavenger Hunt
http://www.wiu.edu/users/sgh100
Teacher-in-training, Shane Hill created this lesson plan based on
internet resources available on M. E. Kerr including mekerr.com. Make sure you click on
the link for the
scavenger hunt when you get there. You can also check it out by clicking
here.
Cooperative
Children's Book Center at the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/index.htm
Forum for discussion of issues related to children and young adult books. In June, 2002, the
books of M. E. Kerr will be under discussion, Particular focus will be given to
Gentlehands (1978), Little Little (1981), Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel (1983), Fell (1987),
Deliver Us from Evie (1994), and Slap Your Sides (2001).
Pasadena Public Library
http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/libraryteens/author.asp
Links to YA author sites.
TeachingBooks
http://www.teachingbooks.net
"TeachingBooks offers thousands of teacher guides on
PK-12 books, hundreds of multimedia author programs, including original
productions of front-list authors and illustrators...."
http://animateme.topcities.com/Rant/v08.html
From what I gather, this is a blog by an anime fan, and the writer mentions how he got the phrase "paint over it" is from Hello, I Lied. You kind of have to see it to understand better.
http://www.sharyn.org
Courtesy of Peter: "It's the website of a children's book editor named Sharyn November. She has this site linked along with many other author sites. She also has a list of all the books she's recently read and I remember seeing M.E. Kerr titles listed there once or twice in the past."
West Bend Library Young Adult Page
http://www.hnet.net/~wbcml/yalinks.htm
BCPL -- Teen Central
http://www.bensenville.lib.il.us/teen/authors/author-web.htm
Author/Artist Information & Links
http://www.bensenville.lib.il.us/teen/authors/author-web.htm
A Celebration of Women Writers: K Listings
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/authors-K.html
Heartland Curriculum Resources
http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/vclab/supplemental_materials.html
United States and Canadian Authors
(Children's and Teenagers' Novels)
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~l.orman/USACanada.htm
Multnomah County Library Talk It Up! Book Discussion Group for Slap Your Sides by M. E. Kerr
http://www.multcolib.org/talk/guides-slap.html
YA Authors' Web Sites
http://www.bettendorflibrary.com/teen/authors.htm
Popular Authors
http://teens.denverlibrary.org/find_pages/authors.html
Language Arts - Grade 9
http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/curric/languagearts/grade9.html
Children Come First
http://www.childrencomefirst.com/snakesdontmissmothers.shtml
Read short interview with M. E. Kerr about Snakes Don't Miss Their Mothers.
HarperCollin's M. E. Kerr Page
http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/authorpage/index.asp?authorID=12310
You can find excerpts of M. E. Kerr's books at this site.
Young Adult
Author-M.E.Kerr
http://www.lexington.lib.il.us/library/YA.html
Katherine
Paterson
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8416/kerr.html
About
Deliver Us From Evie.
Young Adult Novel
Reviews
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/2614/yareviews.html
About Deliver Us From Evie (and other YA novels).
USM Collection: Galley of Son of
Someone
Famous
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/kerr.htm
A Different Light
Bookstore
http://www.adlbooks.com/~adl/yad.html
Favorite Teenage Angst
Books
http://www.grouchy.com/angstbooks.html
Reading Rants! -- The Closet Club: Gay
Fiction for Teens
http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen/closet.htm
Review of I
Stay Near You
http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/profpage/blandon/tlucht/lit-yastaynear.html
Review of Him She Loves?
http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/profpage/blandon/tlucht/lit-yahim.html
Internet Assignment for Gentlehands
http://camalott.com/~aea/pair1.htm
This online assignment will probably be of interest for those teaching Gentlehands.
Holocaust
Study Guide
http://www.gi.esu10.k12.ne.us/SDGI/Westridge/holo.html%7F
This page has been designed to supplement the reading of The Diary of Anne Frank and has links
to various resources that may answer questions related to this book, WWII and the teaching of
the Holocaust. The resources on this page would also be useful as a supplement to the reading of
Gentlehands by M.E. Kerr. Unfortunately, this link doesn't work anymore. But the
concept is still a good one - to use Anne Frank-related curricula to study Gentlehands.
I Was a Teenage Alien: Book review of Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
http://yabooks.about.com/teens/yabooks/library/weekly/aa083098.htm?iam=dp&terms=%22m.+e.+kerr%22
Nancy Keane's Booktalks
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/authlist.htm
Quick reviews of GENTLEHANDS, I STAY NEAR YOU, IS THAT YOU, MISS BLUE? & ME ME ME ME ME, NOT A NOVEL.
The Children's Literature Web
Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
The Internet Public Library Youth
Division
http://www.ipl.org/youth/
Association for Library Service to
Children
http://www.ala.org/alsc/
Book Reviews and Lists by Children's
Authors
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/langbr.htm
Electronic Resources for Youth
Services
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa331/childlit.html
de Grummond Children's Literature
Collection
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/
KidsConnect
http://www.ala.org/ICONN/AskKC.html
Volunteer librarians will assist K-12th graders with school
assignments. Just go to the site and fill out a form with your topic, questions and resources
you've already investigated.
Literature Lesson Plans at ERIC
Collection
http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts/Literature
Bookfinder
http://www.bookfinder.com
This site will search most used and new book sites for you, including...
Bibliofind
http://www.bibliofind.com
Included in Bookfinder, but I'm writing it again because I like the name!
Powell's
Books
http://www.powells.com
Also in Bookfinder, but it doesn't
hurt to have a direct link.
Advanced Book
Exchange
http://www.abebooks.com
This is also in Bookfinder, but
it doesn't hurt to have a direct link.
Buy
Books
http://www.buybooks.com
I've had good experience with this
site. Prices are usually slightly lower than at amazon.
Alibris
http://www.alibris.com/cgi-bin/texis/searcher
Their tagline is: "Books you thought you'd never find."
Lots of first edition-type books, i.e., collectibles, at this site.
Half.com
http://www.half.com
Individuals selling and buying books. Related to e-Bay.
Dynamic Drive
http://www.dynamicdrive.com
The Advanced HTML Site
http://www.advancedhtml.co.uk/
I found the earlier version of this site helpful so I'm sure the updated one is even more so.
Adam's Advanced HTML Guide
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/5212/ - It was pointed out to me that this link is defunct. Goranka suggested this HTML Tutorial instead:
http://www.pdfconverter.com/resources/articles/HTMLtutorial
NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
The JavaScript
Source
www.javascriptsource.com
Also known at this address: The JavaScript
Source
http://www.javascript.internet.com
Free JavaScripts. Updated fairly often. Lots of goodies.
Cartoons Provided by J.P. Berti, www.calwestgroup.com/cartoonclips
Animation Library - Over two thousand free
animations
http://www.animationlibrary.com/
BeSeen: counters, quizlets,
etc.
http://www.beseen.com
1-2-3
Webtools
http://www.freeguestbooks.com/
Alphabet Connection - thousands of free
alphabets and numbers
http://www.graphicworld.com/
Scriptbuilder.com
http://www.scriptbuilder.com/
Free Guestbooks
http://free.guestpage.com/
This is the source of my current guestbook.
Scripts and WWWBoard created by Matt Wright and can be found at
Matt's Script Archive
http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/
Jackie Whedbee's World
http://www.micronet.net/users/~jackie/
Graphics.
About.com
http://www.about.com
This is a good starting place when you are feeling overwhelmed. Some of the
clipart on site were found via about.com.
Ask.com
http://www.ask.com
This is a site that I consult almost daily. It can provide a good springboard
to the kind of information you are seeking.
The World's Largest Peace Sign Collection
http://www.abcme.com/peacesigncollection/peacesigncoll.html