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Cotsen Children's Library: Water Babies: Swimming in Picture Books
Learn about children's book illustration of swimming scenes in this on-line exhibit of relevant images from popular children's stories.
Princeton University
Cotsen Children's Library: Creepy Crawlies: Insects in Picture Books
Learn about how insects are used in children's books in this image gallery with descriptions of multiple examples from popular children's literature.
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The Big Picture Book of Viruses
This site has a catalog of all known viruses, including a picture of each, structure, family, hosts, and more.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Alphabet Book [Pdf]
A ready to print and easy to use graphic organizer to help students plan alphabet books on any subject.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Power Point Presentation for 100 Books
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a downloadable Power Point presentation that contains 100 high interest books for adolescent readers. Each slide contains a picture of the book jacket, author's name, short summary, and hook.
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Dorothy Sloan: Rare Books: Auction 21: Davy Crockett Almanacs
This website contains pictures of the covers of several years' worth of Davy Crockett almanacs from the 1830s to 1850s. You can click on each cover to enlarge it. Scroll to the bottom of the page to click on the description page.
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Dinosaur Depot Museum: Dinosaur Coloring Book [Pdf]
A variety of Colorado dinosaurs are profiled in this dinosaur coloring book. The drawings were created by fifth and sixth graders at Skyline Elementary School, located near a major dinosaur site at Garden Park, Colorado. Each picture is...
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Web Gallery of Art: Woman and Child Looking at a Picture Book
An image of "Woman and Child looking at a Picture Book", created by Jacob De Ii Gheyn, c. 1600 (Pen and wash on paper).
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Library of Congress: read.gov: Gobolinks, or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old
Book cover of Gobolinks, or Shadow-Pictures for Young and Old by Ruth McEnery Stuart.
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Children's Books About the Holocaust
An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.
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Children's Books About the Holocaust
An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.
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Writing With Pictures
A book review of "Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books." Includes critical information, contents and comments, as well as a link to the book's Amazon.com page. A good resource for anyone interested in...
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Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Book Burning
Brief discussion of German book burning with a picture of an SA officer throwing a book on a fire.
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Writing Fix: Scary Somethings: Harry and the Terrible Whatzit
The front cover of Dick Gackenbach’s classic picture book, Harry and The Terrible Whatzit.
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Writing fix.com: Bear, Bear, Bear: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Front cover of the picture book Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall.
Rudiments of Wisdom
Rudiments of Wisdom Encyclopaedia: Cinematography
Learn some fun facts about cinematography from this encyclopaedia entry drawn in comic-book style.
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Web Gallery of Art: Book and Picture Shop
An image of "Book and Picture Shop", created by Salomon De Bray in 1628 (Pen and ink and wash on paper, 76 x 76 mm).
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Illustrating Children's Books
A book review of "Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures for Publication," including critical contents and comments. Also provides information about who would benefit from reading this book review. A good resource for those...
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The Book on Jane Yolen
The most complete information you can get on author Jane Yolen! Teachers, writers, kids- everyone can find something here. Lots of pictures too!
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Picture of Ayn Rand
This is Dr. Leonard Peikoff's website for his book "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand."
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Picture Susan Vreeland
Site includes concise biographical information and lists significant national awards. Author's four books are highlighted with information such as origin, reviews, teacher guides, etc.
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[Australian Literature Society Medal for Book of Poems, 1954] [Realia].
A broad selection of images featuring realia can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.
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Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg explains how he became an illustrator and writer of picture books. Included is a slide show of illustrations from his books.
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Photo of Eric Carle
Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work is the familiar "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".
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