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H.C. Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen ) was a "Great Dane." No, he wasn't a dog! He often didn't attend school, and he left home at the young age of 14. He tried a lot of careers, but nothing clicked for him until he recognized that his imagination was his best quality. Later, he wrote some of the most delightful children's stories of all time (and you thought that Disney wrote The Little Mermaid ). Check out this page; how many of his more than 160 fairy tales do you know?
Kids@Random: A Site for Young Readers - If you've read a book by Dr. Seuss, Judy Blume, or Richard Scarry, then you have read a book published by Random House. Same deal if you've picked up a Star Wars book, or one about Arthur, the Berenstain Bears, or Babar the elephant. At this site you can read book reviews written by kids, and use a neat book finder database to find the perfect book for your age group! But the real gem at this site is Seussville, with its many games and contests.
London, Jack - Jack London (born Jan. 12, 1876, died Nov. 22, 1916) is best known for his books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as "To Build a Fire" and "The White Silence." In fact, he was a much more prolific writer whose fiction explored three geographies and their cultures: the Yukon, California, and the South Pacific. He experimented with many literary forms, from conventional triangle love stories to science fantasy.
Prince Edward Island: Lucy Maud Montgomery and "Anne" - This site is dedicated to the works and life of Lucy Maud Montgomery (or LMM, for short), the Canadian author of the Anne of Green Gables series. Here you will find information about Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, which is the model for Avonlea. There is also a virtual reality tour of Green Gables and a comprehensive list of LMM's works. You can download text versions of several of them at Project Gutenberg, below.
The Definitive Laura Ingalls Wilder Pages - Whether you're a fan of the book or the television series, you need to visit this little house on the cyberprairie to find out everything about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her life. You'll be able to track her travels from the big woods to the prairie, chronicled in her book series about Ma, Pa, Mary, and, of course, herself. You can visit the Heritage Sites, which are now located in the places Wilder describes in her novels.
The Page at Pooh Corner - Somewhere in the Internet's Hundred-Acre Wood is The Page at Pooh Corner. It's the home of information about A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books. Find general information about Pooh and facts about author Milne and the illustrator, E. H. Shepard. Learn about the area in England where the Pooh stories are based and the real Christopher Robin. Sing along with your favorite Disney Pooh songs or download pictures of Pooh and his companions. This page also gives you links to more sites that feature Pooh, that "tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff."
Time Machine - H G Wells - Probably the best story about time machines is one of the first--it was written by H. G. Wells, in 1898. This story, titled The Time Machine , has inspired a countless number of books, movies, and articles on time travel. Read a no-frills copy of the story right here on the Internet, and maybe you'll decide to write your own time travel tale!
Wilder, Laura Ingalls - L aura Elizabeth Ingalls was born February 7, 1867, in a little log house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura's childhood was spent traveling west by covered wagon, to Indian Territory in Kansas, to Grasshopper Country in Minnesota, and then to Dakota Territory, where she met and married Almanzo Wilder. Laura's daughter Rose grew up listening to her mother's stories of those pioneer days. She urged her mother to write them down so that other children could enjoy them, as well. So in the 1930s and 40s, Laura recorded her memories of those days of long ago in a children's series known as the "Little House"® books.
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