Have you ever swapped paperbacks with a friend? Then you’ve participated in a book exchange, also known as a book swap or trade. Now imagine a website that gives you access to thousands of book-reading friends and keeps track of …[Continue]
Folklore
Folklore generally refers to stories and traditional beliefs spread informally, usually by word of mouth. The term was first coined by British antiquarian William J. Thoms in 1846, replacing phrases such as “the lore of the people” and “proverbs of …[Continue]
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee published her first and only novel in 1960, at the age of thirty-four. It won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. “To Kill a Mockingbird” tells two stories at once: one about attorney Atticus Finch’s defense …[Continue]
Stories
This week’s crop of interactive, narrated stories is quite impressive. With professional storytellers and a humongous number of classic and original stories to choose from, you (and your kids) are going to love these sites….[Continue]
Summer Reading
Beaches and books just seem to go together, but even if your summer plans do not include any beaches, hopefully it will still include some warm, lazy days curled up with a good book. To get you in the mood, …[Continue]
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, an Arizona mother of three, woke up June 3, 2003 with a vampire dream fresh in her mind. The dream was so vivid, that she decided to write it down so she wouldn’t lose any of it. As …[Continue]
Reading Comprehension
Today’s reading comprehension sites are for a variety of readers. Whether you are helping a young child learn to read, are a student of English as a second language, or are a high-school student studying for the SAT, we’ve got …[Continue]
Rebus Stories
A rebus uses pictures or symbols to represent words or parts of words. Some are brainteasers, such the rebus puzzles at Fun-with-Words.com. But today’s sites feature rebus stories for emergent readers, where the pictures are either substituted for certain words, …[Continue]
Harry Potter Quotes
Since it’s going to be a summer without either a new Harry Potter book or a new Harry Potter movie, I thought I’d brighten the day of legions of Harry Potter fans with this collection of websites that specialize in …[Continue]
Alice in Wonderland
Writing under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898) wrote two children’s books filled with nonsense and make-believe that have been enjoyed around the world for more than a century: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its …[Continue]
