Curated Video
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Author of groundbreaking novels like “Esperanza Rising" and "Echo," Pam Muñoz Ryan has made literature more representative by expertly mining her own rich Mexican American heritage.
Curated Video
Remembering Dr. Seuss and How He Grew
Dr. Seuss is well known for his popular children’s books full of fanciful rhymes and whimsical illustrations. His earlier cartoons, however, include many racist and anti-Semitic images, which the artist later regretted. Listen to this...
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CLEAN: The Little Prince drops in on Brazil
CLEAN: The Little Prince drops in on Brazil
Curated OER
Big Sad Wolf
Prairie Dawn interviews Big Bad Wolf. Through the interview, we find out that his Social Studies were hurt because Little Red was making fun of him. Prairie Dawn offers some good advice and gets Big Bad Wolf to tell Little Red how she...
Grid Club
Gulliver's Travels
A five-minute video showcases the children's tale, Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. While the narrator reads rhymes, an animated Gulliver sets sail to visit several new destinations—each with a fantastic adventure....
PBS
The Evolution of YA: Young Adult Fiction, Explained
Paranormal teen romances may currently dominate the young adult fiction shelves, but that's not the only change to the genre during the past few years. The evolution of YA lit is the topic of an informational video that follows the teen...
Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "Nory Ryan's Song"
This website is full of interactive student activities and lesson plans for Patricia Reilly Giff's book, "Nory Ryan's Song."
Other
Rutgers in Newark: Interview With Rutgers University Newark Alumna Judith Viorst
An excellent interview with Judith Viorst. She talks about her background, her education, and the changes she saw when she returned to Rutgers University as an adult. She then discusses her life as a writer, how she became a published...
Other
Wired for Books: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All of Alice's fantastic adventures are available at this resource for chapter-by-chapter streaming audio in RealAudio format or as MP3 files.
Other
Teaching Books: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
An audio book reading of "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" read by the author, Jon Scieszka. Students will love listening to these silly tales and can improve listening skills if paired with activities. You can search...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Dinosaur and Princess Pop Up Books by Matthew Reinhart
This video previews the Rumble Roar Dinosaurs and A Princess Like Me pop-up books, written and designed by Matthew Reinhart. [1:06]
Other
Outside the Book: George Ella Lyon
This Outside the Book video episode features an interview with George Ella Lyon, an adult and children's book author. She expresses her approaches to writing and gives a brief overview of The Pirate of Kindergarten, one of her most...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Bruce Degen
Watch while the illustrator of the popular Magic School Bus books talks about his love of art since childhood, how he and the series' author Joanna Cole work together and what's coming next for Ms. Frizzle's class.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: David Shannon
Watch while this author and illustrator of the "No, David!" books talks about how he creates his books. Consider where he gets story ideas and his advice to teachers as a former student troublemaker.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Eric Carle
Watch while this author and illustrator of many classic children's books like "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" talks about his art career, why some books take longer to make than others and why he opened a picture book museum.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mark Teague
Watch while this author/illustrator talks about his lifelong love of storytelling, how illustrating is like acting and how he likes to find humor in the everyday events of childhood.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mo Willems
Watch while this Caldecott-winner talks about creating his own cartoons when he was young, making animations for Sesame Street and what it was like moving from television to writing children's books.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Pamela Duncan Edwards
Watch while this author of alliterative children's books like "Some Smug Slug" talks about writing with rich vocabulary and working with illustrator Henry Cole to create animal characters.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: "Poetry Speaks to Children" Book Review
A review of the children's book "Poetry Speaks to Children." Review includes commentary and information as well as several audio clips of poems being read for children.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Ann Hoberman
Mary Ann Hoberman is the author of more than 40 books for children, including A House Is a House for Me and the popular shared reading series, You Read to Me, I'll Read to You. Whether writing about llamas in pajamas or a raucous auk,...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Margaret Peterson Haddix
As a kid, Margaret Peterson Haddix was a real bookworm: she remembers her mother asking her to please put down her books to enjoy some of the scenery on family vacations. Haddix was so attached to reading, that she considered the...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Marla Frazee
Ever since elementary school, Marla Frazee knew that she wanted to illustrate children's books. Now she lives her childhood dream, stepping into her backyard studio each morning to do what she loves. Frazee has illustrated Sarah...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Marilyn Singer
Marilyn Singer has written all kinds of great books for children and young adults - picture books, fairy tales, mysteries, non-fiction, and novels - but poetry is her favorite genre. Singer is on a mission to "knock poetry off its...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series follows siblings Jack and Annie as they travel to distant times and places with the help of their magic tree house. To accompany these fiction books, Mary Pope Osborne also co-authors...