English

Authors & Illustrators

Poetry

Media Studies

Biography

Book Raps/ Reading Circles

Shakespeare

Children's Literature

Adolescent Fiction

Australian Identity

Social Issues

   

Authors

Penguin Online www.penguin.com/    

The Paul Jennings Web Page    www.pauljennings.com.au     

Mem Fox    www.memfox.net/contents.htm1

Morris Gleitzman    www.ozemail.com.au/~andrewf/morris.html    

Graeme Base    www.penguin.com.au/authors/f_authors.cfm   

John Marsden     http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/johnmarsden/

Biography of Jane Austen and electronic versions of her novels.     www.pemberley.com/index.html   

Australian Aboriginal Writers including Sally Morgan and Jack Davis     www.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/aborigwr.html    

Thomas Keneally    ncc1701.apana.org.au/~larrikin/lit/authors/keneally/keneally.html   

D.H. Lawrence   encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=05EFB000  

C.S. Lewis biography plus interestin details about his literary works.     cslewis.drzeus.net/

Roald Dahl information including short stories, biography and links     www.roalddahl.com//

Lois Duncan    www.iag.net/~barq/lois.html

S.E. Hinton    falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hinton.htm

Cynthia Voigt    www.carr.lib.md.us/mae/voigt.htm

Paul Zindel    teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/zindel/bio.htm

Graeme Base    www.penguinputnam.com/catalog/yreader/authors/2921_biography.html

George Orwell.    www.levity.com/corduroy/orwell.htm

John Steinbeck    www.steinbeck.org/

Authors on the web  www.randomhouse.com/author/links.html

Scholastic authors and books  teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/index.htm

Biography

A database which contains 15 000 biographical entries including some Australian identities.    www.biography.com/

Mahatma Gandhi biography plus links to sites on Hiroshima and non-violence.    www.mkgandhi.org/

 

Children's Literature

I nformation on literary works of prose and poetry, social history, autobiography and biography and picture books for children. Freemantle Arts Centre Press
http://www.facp.iinet.net.au/

Children's literature web guide. List of best books and authors with links to appropriate sites.    www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

Children's authors and illustrators.    www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html

Australian Children's Book Awards    www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/austawards.html

Children's Book of the Year Award - Older Readers    www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/austold.html

Links to authors like Seuss and other sites such as Winnie the Pooh.     www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/kidsauthors.htm   n

General literature guide for K-12 with lists of recommended books and authors. Plenty of graphics.    www.members.tripod.com/~JeanneAnn/childrenslit.html

Beatrix Potter biography and links to her stories    www.wwwebguides.com/authors/society/potter/beatr.html

Dr Seuss.    www.randomhouse.com./seussville/

Hans Christian Andersen. A complete guide to all of his stories.     www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/Andersen

Cinderella in 12 versions with text and illustrations. Useful for comparisons    www-dept.usm.edu:80/~engdept/cinderella/cinderella.html

Fairy tales by the Grimm brothers.    www.ul.cs.cmu.edu/books/Grimm

Snow White in 36 different versions as well as links to other fairy tales.    www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/snowwhite.html

Poetry

Australian poetry and poets and an Australian poem of the month.     http://www.apana.org.au/unavailable.html

An Archive of classical poetry - thousands of poems.
http://www.emule.com/poetry/

Alphabetical lists of well known poets including T.S Eliot, John Keats, Tennyson and Wordsworth.    
http://eserver.org/poetry/

 

Book Raps

Site is set up to allow students to e-mail across Australia and around the world to partcipate in discussions about a selected book. Regular updates of titles to be discussed.    www.owl.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/projects/book-rap/br.html

Adolescent Fiction

Links to popular adolescent novels including Sweet Valley High series.     www.bdd.com/index.html

Media Studies

Movies

Cinemachine- film reviews of all the latest movies. Great for ideas for Year 9 magazine unit.    www.cinemachine.com

Mr showbiz Movie Reviews Archive.    www.mrshowbiz.com/ 

http://www.imdb.com

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert 

Metro magazine (with teacher study guides) http://www.metromagazine.com.au/metro/frm.htm?highlight=2
 

 

 

Newspapers

Sitcoms

Review of Ally McBeal and gender roles.  www.shootthemessenger.com.au/u_nov_98/tele/mcbeal.htm

 

Shakespeare
A huge and well organized collection of links to Web sites on every Shakespearean theme imaginable.  http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare

Lots of useful articles produced by an English teacher.  http://www.ulen.com/Shakespeare

Oxford Shakespeare The complete works available online.  http;//www.bartleby.com/70/index.html