ASCD EDUCATION BULLETIN--July 2, 1998

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ASCD EDUCATION BULLETIN         July 2, 1998

The biweekly online newsletter of the Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development
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NOTE FROM SUSAN:  I deleted several articles in the interests of
conserving your email space.
Here is the table of contents for this entire issue:

* NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS RELEASED
* U.S. HOUSE COMMITTEE ADDS INTERNET FILTER AMENDMENT TO   BUDGET BILL
* ASCD AND MICROSOFT ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF LESSON PLAN     CONTEST
* ASCD MOVES TO NEW HEADQUARTERS
* WEBSITE LISTS AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS FOR SCHOOL VISITS
* WEB WONDERS: LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
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WEBSITE LISTS AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS FOR SCHOOL VISITS

Interested in having a literary program at your school, but not sure who
to
contact? Consider a published children's author or illustrator. *The
Author
Illustrator Source* is a national listing of artists and writers who make
school
visits to enrich curriculum at all grade levels. Each entry provides
biographical information, published books, a description of the
presentation,
professional fee, and contact information.

The site also contains a section of guidelines on how to prepare for a
successful visit, as well as a page of useful links for educators. You
can visit
the Author Illustrator Source at http://www.author-illustr-source.com/

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WEB WONDERS: LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS--compiled by Carolyn
Pool
<cpool@ascd.org>

The topic this week is Literature for Children and Adolescents. Right
off, I
must say I have tried to be brief, but what do you expect from an
English/education major; a book editor; a fan of bookstore cafe au lait
and jazz
and sale racks; a former instructor; and a parent of five? This WW is
brain
candy for me, and I hope you will find it sweet, too.

The Canadian Teacher-Librarians' Resource Pages
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1333/resource.htm
Here are the Bernstein Bears, Judy Blume, Goosebumps, Roald Dahl, and
more. Alan
L. Brown, a teacher-librarian at Havenwood Public School in Mississauga,
Ontario, Canada, maintains this well-updated resource and its "Just for
Kids"
pages, with links to many children's book authors, plus a link to a
HarperCollins page, "How a Book Is Made." Kids send in their favorite
books,
too, and make requests for more info on authors. The nice (and safe)
thing is
that Brown does not publish kids' e-mail addresses in their comments. An
11-year-old in Bangkok loves Dahl, a 9-year-old in London likes *The
Secret
Garden*, and a 43-year-old (!) in Georgia collects children's books.
Brown works
for the Peel District School Board, but the site is his own, obviously
done for
Love of Books. Other links point to the National Library of Canada's
"Read Up on
It" program.

Publishers Weekly Children's Bestseller List
http://www.bookwire.com/pw/bsl/childrens/.
Alan Brown also has a link to this great resource for anyone who likes
books.
This area of the site covers children's books. Check out the All-Time
Children's
Bestsellers (U.S. only; through 1995); top 5 hardcover are *The Poky
Little
Puppy*, *The Tale of Peter Rabbit*, *Tootle*, *Saggy Baggy Elephant*, and
*Scuffy the Tugboat*. Surprised? Well, look on down the list; Dr. Seuss is
there. Paperback top 5 (obviously appealing to readers older than "Puppy"
fans):
*Charlotte's Web*, *The Outsiders*, *Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing*,
*Shane*,
and *Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret*. And a search on the
"Publisher's
Weekly Authors on the Highway" page will tell you that Judy Blume will
appear on
August 6 at Borders in Hyannis, Massachusetts, to discuss her new "adult"
book,
*Summer Sisters*.

Internet School Library Media Center
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/.
Here we are, back in Virginia, at an excellent resource for teachers,
librarians, children, young people, and parents. Inez Ramsey, from the
Library
Science Program at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA,
is the
site administrator. Of note: the searchable "Online Stories, Books &
Periodicals: By and For Children & Young Adults." Here, go to Children's
Books
Online (http://www.cyberkids.com/Launchpad/TextPages/Books.html) and find
e-texts of Aesop's Fables, Dr. Seuss, Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland, and
more,
much more. On Children's Express (http://www.ce.org/), read stories about
teens
and alcohol, girl power, and population growth. Finally, go to "Midlink
Magazine: The Electronic Magazine for Kids in the Middle Grades"
(http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/) for animated book reviews and a
virtual
quilting bee. "Midlink" is a collaboration among a couple of universities
in
Florida and North Carolina, a N.C. elementary school, and a high-tech
corporation.

Children's Literature Web Guide (CLWG)
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ala98.html
Can't discuss kiddie lit without going back to Canada, to this
authoritative
site. Here, find the 1998 Caldecott and Newbery Award winners. I was
gratified
to note that one of my favorite stories "There Was an Old Lady Who
Swallowed a
Fly," illustrated by Simms Taback, won a Caldecott Honor Award. Other
awards:
The Coretta Scott King Author Award goes to Sharon M. Draper, for *Forged
by
Fire*; and the 1999 May Hill Arbuthnot (the goddess of children's
literature)
Lecture Award goes to Lillian N. Gerhardt, editor-in-chief of *School
Library
Journal*. Finally, the *New Zealand Post* Children's Book Awards names
Paula
Boock's *Dare Truth or Promise* the Book of the Year. At the CLWG,
discover
e-mailing lists to subscribe to, such as KIDLIT-L. This is a discussion
list
about children's literature, involving teachers, librarians, students, and
others. To subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
Your message should contain the following line: subscribe KIDLIT-L [your
full
name]
Other don't-miss sites include the Internet Public Library
(http://www.ipl.org/), the Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for
Children
and Adolescents (http://www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/), and Carol
Hurst's
Children's Literature Site (http://www.carolhurst.com/).

Note: I am indebted to Yahoo! for quick searches this week.

Carolyn R. Pool is an Associate Editor of ASCD Books.
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