Spending time at these websites will give you information about some of the best children's author sites. You may read about some characteristics of writers and decide you have what it takes to be an author when you grow up!

Absolutely Whootie is a collection of stories and tales from around the world.The stories teach a value to the children. A great place to print out a story and ask some comprehension questions to ensure careful reading.

Aesop's Fables on line is a great place to electronically read these stories.

Baby-Sitters' Club Page What's happening at the Baby-Sitters' Club? Visit this site to learn about the characters and their adventures.

Judy Blume's Home Page gives the reader a description of all of Judy Blume's books, an interesting biographical sketch with great pictures, and ideas of great books to come.

Booklist from the ALA gives a review of books for youth and children.

BookSpot is a wonderful site full of online books!! This is a wonderful site.

Jan Brett has a great homepage to share with young children and those who love beautiful illustrations. She has an alphabet to download that is great!

Children's Authors Online is from MagicKeys and has some great online stories to read.

The Children's Literature Web Guide is a very comprehensive compilation of children literature. The site lists top award-winning books with links to stories on the web, discussion rooms, and resources for parents, teachers, writers, storytellers, and even more.

Brian Cleary's Homepage has excerpts from his books and a great teacher's link for word-building lesson plans.

Visit the home page of Teri Daniels, author of lively children's literature including the picture books The Feet in the Gym, Just Enough, G-Rex, and Math Man. This comprehensive web site features activities and links for young readers, writers, teachers and librarians.

Giggle Poetry is such a great site for very cute poetry.

Haiku Garden provides haike examples of all sorts.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Page is a great place to spend hours learning about life in the frontier. This is a great spot for lovers of this author's work. The page shows photos of the setting for each book along with detailed information about the location. It even gives ideas for writing papers on her life and books.

The Internet Public Library is a fantastic site with links to reference sections, newspapers, magazines, and online texts. The Youth Division of the Internet Public Library has enough links to keep children and adults busy for hours at a time. The Author Page lets you search through many authors' pages. Don't miss this experience.

Just for Kids Who Love Books has information about some of your favorite authors. Just click on the "authors" button at the bottom of the page.

Kids @ Random House is loaded with links for children of all ages. The links will take you to The Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osborne, Dr. Seuss books, Random House's editors' favorites, and even links to explain why parents should read to their children.

The Literature and Language section of the well-known 700+ Great Sites offers choices from Winnie the Pooh to Shakespeare. You could spend weeks on this page's links.

T. A. Barron's site has great information on this author and "The Wings of Merlin".

Teefer is an online chapter book.

Tell Me a Story has several great online books to enjoy.