Introduction
www.ladybird.co.uk
This site explains the Ladybird Reading Schemes and Keywords. It is colourful, and simple, with interactive games for kids and it has links to other sites such as www.funwithspot.com and www.peterrabbit.com and www.puffin.co.uk too.
www.bookhive.org
This is a guide to children’s literature and books. It has book reviews, quizzes, and colouring pages for all levels of young reader. There are featured storytellers for which you would need RealPlayer plug in, which is freely available for download.
www.starfall.com
The Starfall Learn To Read website helps parents to teach their very young children to read. The lessons are for emergent readers, teaching phonemic awareness.
Publishers and Authors
www.childrensbooksireland.com/links
This site offers a list of websites for Irish publishers and Irish authors of children’sbooks.
www.dk.com
The Dorling Kindersley site is categorized first by age and then by subject.DK has a large selection of non-fiction stock for young children of all ages.Dorling Kindersley is part of the Pearson publishing group and has links to other Pearson sites, e.g. Penguin UK and Puffin, Ladybird, Peter Rabbit and Spot.
www.prim-ed.com, www.carrollheinemann.ie
These are two educational publishing companies that specialise in providingresources for primary schools. These sites are geared to parents and teachers.
www.booksarecool.com (Stephanie Dagg’s website) Stephanie Daggs writes for younger independent readers and emergent readers.
www.roalddahl.com (Official website for the life and work of Roald Dahl)This official website of the famous childrens author is an excellent site for kids; asit is full of fun, games, quizzes, and interesting facts.
www.redwall.org (Brian Jacques’ official website) The Redwall series – from Brian Jacques -is geared to young readers aged 9 to 15.
www.philip-pullman.com (Official website of Phillip Pullman) Phillip Pullman haswritten many books that are popular with young readers.
www.jkrowling.com (Official website of J.K. Rowling) This website is full of news,rumours, and useful information on the author responsible for the Harry Potter series.
www.darrenshan.com (Darren Shan’s official website) Darren Shan is a verypopular Irish author for older kids.
www.kidsatrandomhouse.co.uk/jacquelinewilson (Jacqueline Wilson’s officialsite) This site is full of information, news, and fun stuff on the popular children’sauthor, Jacqueline Wilson.
