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