Websites

Good information on books for preschoolers, elementary students and ideas on how to use these books in the classroom for teachers.

This source includes information about children's books and their authors.

This organization promotes reading instruction, research, and life-long reading habits.

KidLit TV is the 2020 American Association of School Librarians Best Digital Tool for Teaching and Learning. The website features videos, podcasts, and crafts and activities.

The Library of Congress has many websites designed for young readers and for the whole family to explore together.

The Children's Librarians at New York Public Library have put together a list of 100 picture books that everyone should know.

This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

Recommended book lists compiled by kids, teens and teachers.

From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this website includes bibliographies of recommended books for children and young adults.

Sample themes/ of curated booklists: bedtime, feelings, holidays and celebrations and words/language.

On this website you will hear poets read their works aloud.

This award is given every two years to a living poet that has made significant contributions to poetry for children.

Sylvia Vardell, a professor of library and information studies at Texas Woman’s University, created this website, which features recommendations for poetry books, information about poetry awards, and links to many websites of poets who write for children.

Author Kenn Nesbitt's website for poetry.

Here you will find poems for children, activity plans, and videos of poetry in performance.

Created by Children’s Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt, PoetryMinute.org is here to help teachers share poetry with their students by providing a new poem for each day of the school year, Monday through Friday, from the beginning of September until the end of June. (From about page).