America's Story from America's Library
The Library of Congress created this great interactive site for families and classrooms to learn more about the history of America. Meet amazing Americans, jump back in time, explore the states, join America at play and more.

Beatrix Potter Books
Illustrated on-line editions of Peter Rabbit, Two Bad Mice, Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin and Timmy Tiptoes. A section of Wired for Books produced by the Ohio University Telecommunications Center.

The BookHive
Your Guide to Children's Literature & Books.

The Children's Literature Web Guide
Reviews of children's books and literary Web sites are the focus of this site, which also features electronic forums and links to other resources.

Get Wild About Reading With Between the Lions on PBS
This PBS half-hour program airs daily and features a family of lions -- who run a library like no other on earth. The doors "between the lions" swing open to reveal a magical place where characters pop off the pages of books, vowels sing, and words take on a life of their own. The programs mission is to help young children learn to read. Visit the website for show times or to read the stories on line.

Internet Public Library Youth Division - Reading Zone
The Reading Zone is a little like the fiction section at a public library. You can find links to on-line stories and also learn more about your favorite books and authors.

Useful Articles

Helping Your Child Use the Library
The U.S. Department of Education has put together this online brochure to offer suggestions for increasing your child's interest in the library.

Check out the Schools and Libraries Linked to Book Adventure!

Resources

The American Library Association Helps your Kids Connect@the Library
Articles and information including: How to raise a reader, Good Books for Kids, Know what your children are reading and more!

The Internet Public Library Youth Division
Maintained by librarians committed to providing valuable services to that world, to promote librarianship and the importance of libraries, and to share interesting ideas and techniques with other librarians.

Kids Click!
Web Search for kids created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System. Developed to address concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.

Kids Connect
A question-answering, help and referral service for K-12 students on the Internet. Kids Connect's goal is to help students access and use the information available on the Internet effectively and efficiently. Kids Connect is a component of ICONnect, a technology initiative of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association.

Public & State Libraries Listing
This online directory will help you find public libraries and link you to their website.

Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Including an Online Library Catalog, databases and E-journals, Digital Collections, Special collections, Programs & Exhibitions, and Newsletter.

The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection>
One of North America's leading research centers in the field of children's literature. The Collection holds original manuscripts and illustrations, as well as published books, and is housed in the McCain Library and Archives on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi.

Electronic Text Center
Includes approximately 45,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 50,000 related images.

The On-Line Books Page
Over 11,000 listings. Provided by John Mark Ockerbloom a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.

Online Children's Stories
Lots of stories on the Internet to read or download.