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Best of the Web: Arts & Humanities » Literature & Linguistics » Book Reviews » Authors
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(Andersen) Hans Christian Andersen
Companion to a British Library exhibit features a timeline, short essays, images from the exhibition, and related links.
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(Andersen, Hans Christian) Hans Christian Andersen: father of the modern fairy tale
Survey of the author's life and work.
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(Baum) The Wizard of Oz: an American Fairy Tale
Library of Congress online exhibit featuring book illustrations, book covers, posters, letters, copyright applications, publicity stills related to the works of L. Frank Baum.
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(Carroll, Lewis) The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Colelction
Library of Congress exhibition feature a scrapbook kept by Lewis Carroll. Includes an essay, a portrait gallery, and a timeline.
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(Keats, Ezra Jack) Virtual Exhibit
"The Ezra Jack Keats Virtual Exhibit highlights original materials from seven titles featuring the character, Peter, who first appeared in 1962 with the publication of The Snowy Day. The materials are part of the Ezra Jack Keats Papers housed in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi. For each of the seven titles, the website includes an annotation, a finding aid, and original materials such as corrected typescripts, storyboards, and sketches."
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(Milne, A. A.) The Adventures of the Real Winnie-the-Pooh
Information on the real stuffed bear who inspired the creation of Winnie the Pooh and now housed in the Central Children's Room at the Donnell Library Center, part of The New York Public Library.
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(Montgomery, L. M.) Anne of Green Gables and L. M. Montgomery
Resources related to the life and work of the author of Anne of Green Gables.
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(Seuss [Theodore Geisel] 10 facts about Dr Seuss
BBC News fact sheet.
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(Seuss [Theodore Geisel]) The Political Dr. Seuss
Companion site to a PBS program which "reveals how popular children's author Theodor Geisel advocated social change, teaching generations of children not only how to be better readers, but better people as well."
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(Seuss [Theodore Geisel]) Whos Who and Whats What in the Books of Dr. Seuss
Dartmouth has published this 157-page finding-aid reflective of the contents of all of the Dr. Seuss volumes. Available as a PDF download.
- Anne McCaffrey
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Authors and Illustrators
A section of the American Library Association Gred Websites for Kids directory.
- Avi
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Baum, L. Frank
The Wizard of Oz exhibit at the Library of Congress.
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Caroline B. Cooney
An interview posted on a book review website
- Chris Crutcher
- Ellen Wittlinger
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Francesca Lia Block
An interview posted at her publisher's website
- Garret Freymann-Weyr
- Gary Paulsen
- Joan Bauer
- Katherine Paterson
- Laurie Halse Anderson
- M.E. Kerr
- Meg Cabot
- Neil Shusterman
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Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Children's Authors
Extensive directory of links to "sites about the authors of books for children and these authors' works, arranged alphabetically by the authors' names."
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Paterson, Katherine
Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob have I loved, Lyddie, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Park's Quest, The Same Stuff as Stars, The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks, Marvin One Too Many, Marvin's best Christmas Present Ever...
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Paulsen, Gary
Hatchet, Brian's Winter, Brian's Return, Dogsong, Harris and Me, The Monument, Nightjohn, The River, The Voyage of the Frog, The Winter Room...
- Sarah Dessen
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Tanuja Desai Hidier
Learn more about the author of Born Confused here.
- V.C. Andrews
- Walter Dean Myers
- Will Hobbs

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