Helpful+Tips

From tall tales to spooky stories, American Folklore provides a huge resource of stories. There are also tales from around the world available on this extensive website.
 * [|American Folklore]**

**D.E.A.R.** Ramona Quimby's own site devoted to Drop Everything and Read day! Includes information on how to plan an event for this day in honor of Beverly Cleary's birthday, April 12. Book lists, reading promotion ideas and lots of fun!

[|**Kidderlit**] Just for fun! Subscribe to KidderLit and they will send you a daily Tweet of a book's first line so you can guess what the book is. Affiliated with Amazon.com, if you can't figure out the book you can click on the link to Amazon.com and it will reveal the book for you.

**Kids Reads** Looking for book trivia, word puzzles on books and author birthday information? Kids Reads will provide you that and much more!

**Read Kiddo Read** Read Kiddo Read gives you great ideas for great books. In addition, it provides nice lists of "If you read this book, you'll like these" when you're looking for books to fit your needs.

**Reading Rockets** Extensive resources for teachers on helping young kids learn to read. From reading guides to professional reading articles, there is much information about reading to explore on this site.

www.storylineonline.net
 * Storyline**

**Story Tubes** Making video book reports with your kids? Submit them to this website for a yearly contest. You can also take a look at projects other classrooms have done if you are interested in getting started in video with books in the classroom.

Teacher Book Wizard Whether you know the book you're looking for and need more information about it OR if you don't know what you're looking for and need some help, Scholastic's Teacher Book Wizard can help. You can tell it what level of book you're looking for or give it a book you like to find a similar match.

Book publishers have extensive websites devoted to the books they publish. Many of these have teacher guides, reproducibles, information about authors, and even costumes of popular characters you can borrow! Several also have newsletters you can subscribe to for the latest information about their books.
 * Book Publisher Websites:**

**Candlewick Classroom**

**Random House**

Penguin Books

**Scholastic**

**More Book Fun!**
**Authors Who Skype**

**Book Club Logistics**

**Book Props**

**Folkmanis Puppets**

**Mimi’s Motifs—puppets & props**

Book Review Sites
**Bookwink** Bookwink is a resource for book reviews and video book trailers.

[|**Children’s Literature Network**] Great site for information about books, authors, and more.