* Give yourself some time to explore
http://www.go2web20.net/
* Awesome site about Web 2.0 and curriculum:
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/
• Positive Uses of Social Networking in Libraries
http://www.leonline.com/yalsa/positive_uses.pdf
* Social Networking in School and Public Libraries: a toolkit for Librarians and Library Workers.
www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/profdev/SocialNetworkingToolkit.pdf
* Images on the internet and how it all spreads so fas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBz-hxjSLU
• Wikipedia Scanner
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
Given the possibilities Wikipedia offers for pushing slanted viewpoints,
anyone teaching information literacy will find this tool useful. The site
creators have analyzed IP addresses to identify anonymous authors of
Wikipedia articles, and their affiliations. You can search suspect
articles by the editor's IP address, or by organization (the US House of
Representatives, Democratic Party, WalMart, Fox News, CIA, the Vatican,
etc.) Read more about it at TechPresident, linked above.
* Wiki and blog sites that students can still access.
- Blogs
BlogNow http://www.blognow.com.au/
Edublogs http://www.edublogs.org/
Learnerblogs http://www.learnerblogs.org/
- Wikis
PBWiki for Educators http://pbwiki.com/edu.wiki
- Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/
* Blogging do's and don'ts
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/weblogs
http://globalteacher.org.au/
* Things I might want to do this year
1.Take a digital picture with a camera and/or phone and download it to your PC.
2. Register at Blogger and start a blog. Post every once in a while and add a photo.
3. Register at Bloglines and aggregate your blog and RSS subscriptions into one reader. Check out what other blogs align with your interests.
4. Look at Facebook and see the next generation of social networking.
5. Set up a Flickr account and post a few of digital photos online. Tag and annotate them.
6. Look at LibraryElf and see the potential for personal library tools.
7. Check out LibraryThing and catalogue a few books from your personal collection.
8. Register at MSN Photo Album and build an album to share with friends, family, or colleagues.
9. Check out Myspace and see how this service has become so huge globally.
10. Have some fun with the links on the Generator Blog.
11. Download Firefox and compare it to Explorer and Opera.
12. Research bookmarklets and try a few.
13. Revisit Yahoo! and remind yourself why it is visited more than Google.
14. Learn about iFILM and viral video.
15. Get a PubSub account and start searching the future.
16. Make a map of all the countries or states you've been to at Visited Countries.
17. Experiment with some sound and picture search engines like Podscope.
18. Try some new Web search engines like Exalead, Wink, Gravee, Clusty, Mooter, Kartoo, etc., or others you can find at Search Engine Watch's list.
19. Learn more about visual display tools like Grokker.
20. Check out Google Base and see what the fuss is all about.
21. Register with NetFlix and rent a movie. Learn how to deal with streaming media.
22. Get a Del.icio.us account and play with social bookmarking and tags.
23. Play with Blinkx and learn about searching TV shows, video and podcasts.
24. Try MovieFlix too. There are plenty of free movies here to learn to do this.
25. Set up a Google Picasa account. Post a picture and then edit it.
26. Download an MP3 file to your PC, laptop or phone. Try iTunes, LimeWire, Kazaa, or eDonkey. Look for something that's not music too.
27. Listen to a podcast. There are quite a few about library issues, too.
28. Find your home and your office on Google Maps.
29. Check out your local public library's website. You'll likely find some cool stuff like talking books for that long commute, or classical music collections, or eBooks.
30. Change your ring tone so you don't jump when everyone else's default ring goes off.
31. Visit the Google Labs site regularly.
32. Set up a personalized Google or My Yahoo! page
33. Play with JibJab.
34. Play with Wikipedia. Edit an entry, feel the network.
35. Play with Copernic and extend your searching.
36. Play an online multiplayer game.
37. Take an e-learning course from Click University.
38. Choose any of the above and add your own goals. Include some fun things, too.
ADD YOUR OWN...
* A theory for Library 2.0 could be understood to have these four essential elements:
· It is user-centered. Users participate in the creation of the content and services they view within the library's web-presence, OPAC, etc. The consumption and creation of content is dynamic, and thus the roles of librarian and user are not always clear.
· It provides a multi-media experience . Both the collections and services of Library 2.0 contain video and audio components. While this is not often cited as a function of Library 2.0, it is here suggested that it should be.
· It is socially rich . The library's web-presence includes users' presences. There are both synchronous (e.g. IM) and asynchronous (e.g. wikis) ways for users to communicate with one another and with librarians.
· It is communally innovative. This is perhaps the single most important aspect of Library 2.0. It rests on the foundation of libraries as a community service, but understands that as communities change, libraries must not only change with them, they must allow users to change the library. It seeks to continually change its services, to find new ways to allow communities, not just individuals to seek, find, and utilize information.
* Library 2.0 in Action
- St. Joseph County Public Library
http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/
1. Users' language
2. Ask or IM a librarian
3. Local history and genealogy,with librarian-created databases, tutorials
4. Community information: librarian-created database
5. Wiki Subject guide
6. Programs and classes
7. Online book club
8. Blogs: building blog, game blog, SJCPL blog; with RSS feeds
9. Services including dial-a-story, homebound service, online renewal, adult literacy, handicapped accessibility, etc.
10. Vision statement
11. wi-fi
12. e-Books, e-audiobooks
13. cataloginterface
Ann Arbor District Library, http://www.aadl.org/
1. Blog-based: director's blog, books, audio, video, new items, AXIS (teen blog), research blog,
2. User involvement: contests, comments on AADL blogs, Picture Ann Arbor, videogame tournaments
3. Family-building and community-building activities and programs
4. e-books and e-audio
5. online requests to schedule rooms
6. full range of computer training for different age and knowledge levels
7. e-mail book club
8. feedback requests - users are beta testers
9. online reference - e-mail only
10. personalizing features: Personal card catalog, My tags,
11. catalog interface
* Meet Needs Defined BY THE USERS:
- Physical
> public meetings,
> advisory committees,
> user comment forms,
> surveys
> volunteered comments and suggestions
- Virtual
> Activate AND READ comments on library blogs,
> conduct online surveys,
> post online comment forms, etc.
- In the Manner of Their Choice
> in person, through e-mail, IM, phone, website, text messaging,RSS feeds, interactive blogs: SJCPL, St. Charles (IL) Public Library, http://www.stcharleslibrary.org/, Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Western Springs, IL http://www.fordlibrary.org/ Evansville Vanderburgh (IN) Public Library, http://www.evpl.org/
>electronic delivery: e-books, audiobooks, streaming video, games (see what Pasco County Library has done with a Games on Demand subscription, http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6423401.html)
>iPods: Kankakee (IL) Public Library, http://www.kankakee.lib.il.us/, PLCMC Teen Page http://www.libraryloft.org/podcasts.asp; Podcasting, Library Success Wiki http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Podcasting
>PDAs: accessible websites, Kankakee PL, Minneapolis PL; PDA-accessible databases and other services, see PDAs, Handhelds and Mobile Technologies in Libraries, http://web.simmons.edu/~fox/pda/, The Handheld Librarian, http://www.handheldlib.blogspot.com/
>TV: Iowa City Public Library's Library Channel, http://www.icpl.org/librarychannel/, Lakewood Public Library's "What's Going On at the Lakewood Public Library" on Cox Cable Channel 45.
>Radio: Iowa City Public Library's "Big Brain: Radio that answers life's little questions" - http://www.icpl.org/files/programs/eventnews-2007-12-21.pdf. Sometimes programs are also made available on circulating CDs and DVDs
* In the Place and/or Time of Their Choice
- Physical
mobile librarians: services to juvenile detention centers http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6312515.html, http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA510771.html;
to child care centers, to nursing homes, to academic departments and dormitories, to malls, to subway stations, to museums http://www.imcpl.org/about/locations/infozone.html, to disaster victims, to homeless shelters, etc.
More ways discussed at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/OctCon2004/%20
Bookmobiles and mobile computer labs
After hours services - (chaperoned) overnights at the library
Dial-a-story
- Virtual
Instant Messaging: see Instant Messaging in an Academic Environment http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/talk/cil2006/teachingmoments/
RSS feeds - see Hennepin County Library, http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/RSS.cfm; Denver Public Library, http://denverlibrary.org/news/dplnews/about_rss.html, Georgia State University Library, http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/, RSS4Lib http://www.rss4lib.com/
Live homework help
Virtual reference
Online storytelling - PLCMC's Story Place, http://www.storyplace.org/ and Book Hive, http://www.bookhive.org/
Encourage User Participation
- Physical
Teen advisory boards
- Inviting the public to participate in creating the strategic plans and building programs, comment on architectural plans, etc.
- Inviting community groups with specialized knowledge to help select materials in -- - User-created writing (literary magazines, poetry slams, Monroe County Public - ---- Library's Teen Poetry Wall, http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/teens/for_you/poetry_wall.html, etc.), films, music (Garage Band nights), programming, art (teen-created mural at Wilton Library; local art exhibits of all sorts - Heights Library actually offers studio space to a local arts collaborative that runs the library's art gallery and offers after school art classes for kids)
- post-paid comments form
- contests
Virtual
- Comment function on blogs
= inviting users' ideas on the library's Future" as Minneapolis PL does, or "Help plan your library by telling us what features are most important to you," as Seattle PL does on its "Libraries for All" web site, http://www.spl.org/lfa/index.html
- inviting and posting reader reviews
- inviting readers to add comments to the library catalog - Hennepin County Library, http://www.hclib.org/blogs/CatalogNews.cfm?ID=52
- Inviting readers to supplement information in digital collections - Nadia Nasr, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Maryland's Most Wanted http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6423411.html
- enlisting community groups in collection development in their areas of expertise
- enlisting users in building community history database: Picture Ann Arbor; Bemis Public Library, Littleton, CO, veteran's oral history
- helping users develop multimedia content which libraries can then post on their web site - Thomas Ford Memorial Library's Audio Reviews by Teens, http://www.fordlibrary.org/yareviews/; the partnership between Hennepin County Library and Asian Media Access (AMA) to work with Hmong teens to create multi-media projects.
Provide Ready Access to Important Community Information and History:
Physical
- community forums on local issues - Chelsea District Library's presentation on "Making Sense of Financial and Medical Powers of Attorney" shortly after Terri Schiavo's death, and Hartford Public Library's "Democracy in Action Week," where city and state officials discuss important public issues like "The Clean Water Project" and "Life after Landfill," Fort Vancouver PL Program "The 2006 Election Results: What Do They Mean?"
- handouts on readily anticipated needs - Google maps of nearby restaurants, for instance.
- collaboration with local nonprofits and government agencies to inform people on important issues: Memphis Public Library & Information Center's Community Information and Referral 211 Service http://www.memphislibrary.org/linc/comminfo.htm
- Community emergency assistance - Pasco County librarians as emergency responders, http://www.governing.com/articles/12talk.htm
Virtual
- voter guides and community issue guides - Springfield Greene County Library's Informed Decision http://www.thelibrary.org/informed/; Minneapolis Public Library's unusually helpful Voter Guide, http://www.mplib.org/elections2005/votersguide.pdf%20. Consider the effect if you ignore important local events and issues like BRAC, 25th anniversary of Mt. St. Helen's eruption, local festivals
- Collaboration with and assistance to local nonprofits - Tucson-Pima Public Library's Grants & Nonprofits Information Center http://www.tppl.org/research/grants/, Springfield-Greene County Library's Nonprofit Prophet http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/infolink/nonprofit/
- Community calendar - Wilton Library Community Calendar, http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/calendar/calendar/
- Community databases: of community organizations (Skokie http://www.skokie.lib.il.us/s_community/, Queens http://queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_nm=Community+Information ); points of local interest (Princeton PL); local history (Tacoma PL, San Jose PL)
- Digital collections - Tacoma Public Library: Tacoma Past and Present, http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/Page.aspx?nid=7; San Jose Public Library California Room, http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/; New York Public Library Digital Schomburg, http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/; New York Public Library Digital Gallery, http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/; Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Collection, http://denverlibrary.org/whg/index.html;
Help Users Learn What They Wish To Learn:
Physical
- formal classes on ESL, citizenship training, animation (PLCMC, Austin PL), setting up a business, negotiating the subway system (Queens Library), how to create zines (SLCPL), quilting, gardening,
- in classes,
- Learning labs, like Princeton PL's Gadget Garage, http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/reference/techcenter/gadgetgarage.html); King County Library System's assistive technology lab http://kcls.org/sc/special.cfm#daily)
- in Community Technology Centers - Springfield Greene County Library's The Edge http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/edge/index.cfm, Oberlin Public Library's CTC, etc.
- informal - teaching while answering questions
Virtual
- online tutorials -
1. Jumpstart Your Family History, http://www.multcolib.org/guides/family/;
2. North Metro Technical College YouTube Library Video Tutorials http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=NMTCLibrarian;
3. NYPL's Researching an Architectural Structure http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/artarc/archit/arch.html;
4. Kansas City Public Library's Technology Guides http://www.kclibrary.org/guides/technology/
5. see Online Tutorials at the Library Success Wiki http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Online_Tutorials
Extend Access and Eliminate Arbitrary Barriers
Physical
- wi-fi - roving reference, roving patron access
- multi-lingual service in multilingual communities - Queens Library, http://queenslibrary.org/
- accessible facilities, services, and programs; adaptive equipment, Heights Library, signed storytimes, signed internet training, "Deaf Expo" of agencies serving the hearing-impaired; Phoenix Public Library's Special Needs Center http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/snc.jsp, helps people try out various assistive technology, offers descriptive video service, a "toybrary" of therapeutic toys; Seattle Public Library Equal Access Program http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=audience_specialservices_leap
- the Netflix model - Elmwood Park Library's LitClick http://www.elmwoodparklibrary.org/litclick.htm
Virtual
- an Amazon-style catalog - expand usefulness of catalog by integrating reviews, patron comments, data from other sources - see Denver Public Library's effort <http://blog.orch8.net/?p=17>
Let Users Personalize Your Services
- BraryDog at the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, http://brarydog.org/
- Morton Grove (IL) Public Library's MatchBook Program, http://www.webrary.org/rs/matchbookabout.html
- Hennepin County Library: Subscribe to our RSS Feeds, http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/RSS.cfm
- Library toolbars - see Denver Public Library, http://denverlibrary.org/; Colorado State University Library, http://lib.colostate.edu/help/toolbar.html ; Harris County Public Library, http://www.hcpl.lib.tx.us/ebranch/toolbar/. Free tools for creating toolbars, like Toolbar Browser, http://www.toolbarbrowser.com/, or Conduit.com http://www.conduit.com/.
Provide Community, Real and Virtual
Physical
- Wilton Library; Fairfield (CT) Public Library's seminars on peaceful conflict resolution.
- community festivals
1. Día de los niños / Día de los libros http://www.main.org/ninos/, http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/diadelosninos/diadelosninos.htm;
2. storytelling festivals - Multnomah County Library's Tapestry of Tales, http://www.multcolib.org/events/tales/, Tampa Storytelling Festival, http://www.tampastory.org/tsf_fest.htm;
3. Everett Public Library's Librarypalooza http://www.everettwa.org/default.aspx?ID=1047;
4. bookmobile parade http://www.vehiclesuccess.com/news.htm;
5. make bookmobile and book cart drill team available for community events http://www.aurora.lib.il.us/bkm.htm
- community-wide book discussions
- intergenerational book clubs, "Read to your Grandchildren," family nights, overnights at the library, etc.
- family game nights (Princeton Public Library), "family dinner theater" (Southfield Public Library)
- Open up your "community living room" and cable access so people can share in important broadcast events: Princeton Public Library and the World Cup matches; major hearings or candidate debates on C-SPAN.
Virtual
- online book clubs
- make it easy for them to recommend a book to a friend - Postcards from Lakewood Public Library, http://www.lkwdpl.org/postcards/
- Show people using and enjoying your library, on your web site, on Flickr, on promotional materials
- Wikis: Princeton Public Library: BookLoversWiki, http://booklovers.pbwiki.com/; Picture Ann Arbor, http://www.aadl.org/services/products/pictureAnnArbor
Provide Transparency and Public Accountability
Physical
- Public meetings to discuss the library's goals, future plans
- library annual reports, strategic plans, building program information, available as attractive handouts, bookmarks, calendars, etc. - Gwinnett County Public Library, Greene County Library, Cumberland County Public Library, http://marylaine.com/cheap2.html
Virtual
- directors' blogs - She Said, He Said, Ann Arbor PL's director's blog
- annual reports online
- building programs online - Seattle Public Library http://www.spl.org/lfa/index.html, King County Library System, http://kcls.org/yourlibraryinvestment/-- construction photos online, on the library's web site or on Flickr
- library budgets online
Borrow Good Customer Service Ideas Whenever You See Them:
Physical
- the Netflix model: LitClick from Elmwood Park Public Library, http://www.elmwoodparklibrary.org/litclick.htm
- the Barnes & Noble model
Virtual
- an Amazon-style catalog - see Denver Public Library's http://denverlibrary.org/catalogs/index.html, with its personal list manager, reviews, character information, excerpts, customer reviews,
- The MySpace model: Hennepin County Library Bookspace http://www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/
Put a Human Face on the Library:
Physical
- Newspaper columns - Jeanne Duffey, Springfield News-Leader, http://www.ozarksnow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060723/COLUMNISTS08/607230377
- Formal and informal training
- Stunts and attention-grabbing events
Virtual
- blogs: She Said, He Said lions-online-shesaidhesaid.blogspot.com/; The Latest SCCoop from the Santa Clara County Library, http://146.74.224.231/; Denver Public Library Evolver Report, http://teens.denverlibrary.org/evolver_report.html
- MySpace - Brooklyn College http://marylaine.com/www.myspace.com/brooklyncollegelibrary, Hennepin County Library, http://www.myspace.com/hennepincountylibrary, PLCMC Teen Loft's MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/libraryloft Denver Public Library Teen Services, http://www.myspace.com/denver_evolver
- Flickr - Photos from Cleveland Heights University Heights Public Library, http://www.flickr.com/photos/heightslibrary/, from LaGrange Park Library, http://www.flickr.com/photos/60582448@NOO
OK, So How Do I Learn To Do All That?
Prime Idea Sources: Your Regular Reading
- ALA TechSource http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/
- Blyberg.net (John Blyberg, formerly of AADL, Now of Darien CT Public Library) http://blyberg.net/
- Information Wants To Be Free (Meredith Farkas) http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php
- The Librarian in Black (Sarah Houghton-Jan), http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/
- LibraryBytes (Helene Blowers) http://www.librarybytes.com/index.html
- LibraryCrunch (Michael Casey) http://www.librarycrunch.com/
- The Shifted Librarian (Jenny Levine) http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/
- Stephen's Lighthouse (Stephen Abram) http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/
- Tame the Web (Michael Stephens) http://www.tametheweb.com/
Who's Going To Teach Me? Online Instruction
- WebJunction Focus on Online Community for Public Libraries http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=11257
- Moving Libraries Forward to Web 2.0 http://infopeople.org/training/web20/; also see its wiki, http://wiki.infopeople.org/index.php?title=Moving_Libraries_Forward_to_Web_2.0. also for library 2.0 presentation
- Five Weeks to a Social Library http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/
- KCLS Learning 2.0 - 27 Things http://kcls27things.blogspot.com/
- PLCMC Learning 2.0 page http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/
- Library 2.0 Social Network http://library20.ning.com/
Basic Tools
- Blogs:
1. Blogger http://www.blogger.com/start
2. LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/
3. Blogsome http://blogsome.com/
4. WordPress http://wordpress.org/
5. See Jennie Starr's article in the March, 2007 issue of Searcher, "The Blogging Experience: Hosts, Add-On Content, and Monetizing.
6. see the Blogging Libraries Wiki for examples http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki
RSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
- Social bookmarking and tagging
1. http://del.icio.us/ - LaGrange Park Public Library's Bookmarks at del.icio.us, http://del.icio.us/LaGrangeParkLibrary,
2. LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/
3. Digg http://digg.com/
4. Squidoo http://www.squidoo.com/;see Library 2.0 in Three Easy Steps on Squidoo at http://www.squidoo.com/EasyL2/; Library Clips on using Squidoo, http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/10/28/squidoo-diy-topic-webpages/
- Photo and film sharing
1. Flickr - see http://www.flickr.com/groups/librariesandlibrarians/pool/
2. YouTube http://youtube.com/results?search_query=library
3. Google Video, http://video.google.com/
- Mashups: see
1. http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/seminar_page.php?sid=77;
2. http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/library_mashups/index.html;
3. Talis Library Mashup Competition entries http://www.talis.com/tdn/forum/84;
4. John Blyberg's award-winning Go-Go Google Gadget http://www.blyberg.net/2006/08/18/go-go-google-gadget/;
5. Cool Tools and Mashups for Webmasters http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/talks06/il/2006il-cooltools.pdf;
6. LibWorm tracking of mashups http://www.libworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=mashups+mashup&t=Mashups&r=Any&f=c&page=2&o=d
- Second Life - see
1. I Finally Get Second Life http://cto.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=178841;
2. InfoIsland in Second Life, http://infoisland.org/;
3. The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC) and the Alliance Library System are collaborating on the "Eye4You Alliance" http://eye4youalliance.youthtech.info/?p=84 an island in Teen Second Life that will offer virtual library services to teens.
- Podcasts
1. create a local history walking tour podcast http://www.podfeed.net/tags/walking
2. Podcasting - Library Success: a Best Practices Wiki http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Podcasting
3. Your Guide to Podcasts http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/02/digging_deeperyour_guide_to_po.html, with links to similar guides to RSS and wikis.
4. Yahoo! Podcasts: Publish a Podcast http://podcasts.yahoo.com/publish/1
5. Directories of Podcasts http://www.podcast411.com/page2.html
6. Podcast Hosts http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Hosts.html
7. Podcasting Software for Publishing http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcasting_Software.html
- Wikis
1. Princeton Public Library's BookLoversWiki http://booklovers.pbwiki.com/Princeton%20Public%20Library
2. Stevens County Rural Library District's Stevens County Wiki http://www.scrld.org/
3. St. Petersburg College Library Wiki http://it.spcollege.edu/pdwiki/index.php?title=SE_Campus_Library_Wiki
4. St. Joseph County Public Library [Wiki-Based] Subject Guides, http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page
5. PBWiki http://pbwiki.com%3e/Give yourself some time to explore
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Reader's Advisory
Who writes like…?
http://www.erl.vic.gov.au/readers/who.htm
For a basic ‘who writes like?’ resource this site offers extensive recommendations. Also contains good links to other resources.
Genre specific
Mystery/Suspense/Horror http://www.authorsafterdark.com/
This site offers reviews and a lot of information about numerous titles in the genre. You can search by author, publisher, title and new releases but of particular value is the search by theme.
Romance http://www.theromancereader.com/
This site features recommendations, category searches, links to other titles by the same author and includes a ‘sensuality rating’.
Sci-Fi/Fantasty http://www.scifan.com/
Extremely extensive site listing author and series information. Includes list of similar titles/authors to read on.
Literature Awards
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/awards/
This site extensively lists winning and shortlisted titles of numerous literary awards both national and international.
General
http://www.whichbook.net/
This site allows you to specify appeal characteristics and returns results that include reader comments and extracts from each book. Additionally you can search by plot, character or setting.
http://www.allreaders.com/
While you can search for author information and book reviews, the main strength of this site is to find books based on plot, setting or character descriptions. Search results narrowed to a particular title include recommendations of similar books. Includes authors of youth fiction.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
This site is rich in information about a range of fiction and authors. A particularly good place to look for series information in a range of genres – just look for the series link at the top of the page.
Pseudonyms
http://www.trussel.com/books/aka.htm
Extensive lists of pseudonyms. Includes alias names, maiden names, nicknames and more.
Children and Teens
http://www.kidsreads.com/
Author interviews, series information, Books turned into movies and more. Includes some Australian authors and is kept current.
http://www.openingthebook.com/otb/page.asp?idno=173Opening the Book is a reader development organisation in the UK, which I stumbled across in inCite. This links to their 'working concepts' section, which has well-worded info about a reader-centred approach to promotions, displays, and service in your library. I like their descriptions of how they percieve user points of view, which you can relate to if you're into reading.
Reader's Advisor Online Presents the Best of 2007!
(An annotated list in PDF format is available from the blog post http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/20/readers-advisor-online-presents-the-best-of-2007/).
HOW TO GET BACK INTO READING
A great way of promoting what your library can do
http://gathernodust.blogspot.com/2007/10/top-ten-reading-hacks-or-how-to-get.html
Plus you also might like to use the 'rights of the reader' poster http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/assets_walker/dynamic/1158585957437/Rights-of-the-Reader-poster.pdf
Interesting article about non-appeal characteristics below...
http://www.rusq.org/index.php/2007/06/28/good-for-what-non-appeal-discussability-and-book-groups-part-1/
http://www.erl.vic.gov.au/readers/who.htm
For a basic ‘who writes like?’ resource this site offers extensive recommendations. Also contains good links to other resources.
Genre specific
Mystery/Suspense/Horror http://www.authorsafterdark.com/
This site offers reviews and a lot of information about numerous titles in the genre. You can search by author, publisher, title and new releases but of particular value is the search by theme.
Romance http://www.theromancereader.com/
This site features recommendations, category searches, links to other titles by the same author and includes a ‘sensuality rating’.
Sci-Fi/Fantasty http://www.scifan.com/
Extremely extensive site listing author and series information. Includes list of similar titles/authors to read on.
Literature Awards
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/awards/
This site extensively lists winning and shortlisted titles of numerous literary awards both national and international.
General
http://www.whichbook.net/
This site allows you to specify appeal characteristics and returns results that include reader comments and extracts from each book. Additionally you can search by plot, character or setting.
http://www.allreaders.com/
While you can search for author information and book reviews, the main strength of this site is to find books based on plot, setting or character descriptions. Search results narrowed to a particular title include recommendations of similar books. Includes authors of youth fiction.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
This site is rich in information about a range of fiction and authors. A particularly good place to look for series information in a range of genres – just look for the series link at the top of the page.
Pseudonyms
http://www.trussel.com/books/aka.htm
Extensive lists of pseudonyms. Includes alias names, maiden names, nicknames and more.
Children and Teens
http://www.kidsreads.com/
Author interviews, series information, Books turned into movies and more. Includes some Australian authors and is kept current.
http://www.openingthebook.com/otb/page.asp?idno=173Opening the Book is a reader development organisation in the UK, which I stumbled across in inCite. This links to their 'working concepts' section, which has well-worded info about a reader-centred approach to promotions, displays, and service in your library. I like their descriptions of how they percieve user points of view, which you can relate to if you're into reading.
Reader's Advisor Online Presents the Best of 2007!
(An annotated list in PDF format is available from the blog post http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/20/readers-advisor-online-presents-the-best-of-2007/).
HOW TO GET BACK INTO READING
A great way of promoting what your library can do
http://gathernodust.blogspot.com/2007/10/top-ten-reading-hacks-or-how-to-get.html
Plus you also might like to use the 'rights of the reader' poster http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/assets_walker/dynamic/1158585957437/Rights-of-the-Reader-poster.pdf
Interesting article about non-appeal characteristics below...
http://www.rusq.org/index.php/2007/06/28/good-for-what-non-appeal-discussability-and-book-groups-part-1/
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Teen Reads
www.insideadog.com.au
http://www.kidsreads.com/coming_soon.asp
http://www.teenreads.com/coming_soon.asp
www.queenslandbooks.com/schools.
BOYS POINT OF VIEW
James Moloney (Have only read Dougy and Gracey)
'Bridge to Wiseman's Cove 3
Lost Property 3 (started last night)
Touch Me 2
Marcus Zusak's
Underdog,2
Ruben Wolf,
The Messenger 2
David Metzenthen's books
Boys of Blood and Bone 2
David McRobbie,
Fergus McPhail
Tyro -
Micahel G. Bauer
The Running Man
Don't Call Me Ishmael
Nick Earl, 28 Shades of Brown (Good choice with movie)
'Doppelganger' by Michael Parker
Archie Fusillo's The Dons
'Clay' by David Almond
Scot Gardner's books, eg Burning Eddy
JC Burke's 'The Story of Tom Brennan', 4
A little piece of ground by Elizabeth Laird
Will by Maria Boyd 2 (Might buy this next week!)
Malorie Blackman's Nought's and crosses
Shadows in the mirror" by Cameron Nunn
Daredevils by Bill Condon
Scott Monk, Raw
Morris Gelitzman's 'Once' (Very good with Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Fredrick,
Elli, Hitler's Daughter, Anne Frank in Lit Circles)
AUTHOR TREASURE HUNT
New treasure hunt:
http://www.lakemunmorah.ps.education.nsw.gov.au/t_hunts/treasure_hunts.htm
On-line worksheet- an improved version of the clickable worksheets with a printable worksheet for students
http://www.lakemunmorah.ps.education.nsw.gov.au/onlineworksheets/stage_3/govt&federation.htm
Summer Activities - ReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/
Activities arranged by grade level to keep kids reading, writing, and
following their curiosity - and there's no need to limit that to
summertime.
Here's a great reading website for JP students. The Starfall
learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service.It is US based
and 4 sections from ABC to learn to read aand I'm reading.
www.starfall.com
READING ALOUD TO TEENS
Andrew Daddo - Dacked (the scene where Fergus and Kelvin go tubing on
Sydney Harbour - with fairly disastrous results)
Markus Zusak - The Underdog (The first chapter and dream)
Henry Lawson - The Loaded Dog (it might be an oldie, but the boys love it)
Charlie Higson - Silverfin (the first chapter)
Steven Herrick - The Simple Gift (the boys are amazed it is poetry)
Aron Ralston - Between a Rock and a Hard Place (true story of the hiker
who chopped his hand off with his Leatherman after becoming trapped - the
boys love the pictures!)
Homer Hickam - October Sky (the early part where Homer and his mates test
their first rocket and blow up his mother's fence and rose garden. This is the amazing true story of a mountain boy in Virginia who aspired to build rockets and work for NASA... and he eventually did!)
Anthony Horowitz - The Devil and his Boy (the first chapter... this is a good one to read in conjunction with the study of Shakespeare)
Deborah Ellis - Diego Run! (the scene where Diego and Mando escape
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Parts of the Read aloud Handbook are available online
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/rah_intro_p1.html
And some other quotes on research
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/aai.html
Another source of information
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr213.shtml
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr081.shtml
http://www.toread.com/
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0STR/is_8_110/ai_74826102
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3722/is_199910/ai_n8869711
http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/rrq/v32/i2/abstracts/RRQ-32-2-Rosenhouse.html
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/dnd/ps24_AR_02.shtml
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/schoolimprovement/effective/briefs/readaloud
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/reading/10048
http://www.carla.umn.edu/immersion/acie/vol1/Feb1998_StudentsRead.html
http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip59.html
AFTER HP
"Harry Potter. What Next?" You can download it from http://www.cbc.org.au/vic/harrypotter.pdf.
You could try this list and the link it also contains.
http://www.consultpivotal.com/higher_harry_potter.htm
FILM/BOOK TIE INS
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
A wrinkle in time;
Anne of green gables.
Babe (the sheep pig) by Dick King-Smith
Because of winn-dixie by Kate Dicamillo
Bridge to terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Charlotte's Web
Ella enchanted,
The Enormous crocodile (Dahl)
Hating Alison Ashley
Howl's moving castle
The Indian in the cupboard
James and the giant peach
Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
Lockie Leonard (TV series)
Mary Poppins
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Millions (Boyce)
Nancy Drew
Playing Beatie Bow
Polar express
A series of Unfortunate events
Storm boy,
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
The BFG
The borrowers (TV series?)
The iron giant
The secret garden
The snowman (Briggs)
The thief lord
The witches (dahl), ,
Treasure planet
Tuck everlasting
The Roman mysteries
Willy Wonka
SCIENCE FICTION
Blackman, Malorie Noughts and crosses series
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the sower (series)
Bujold, Lois McMaster Vorkosigan series
Carmichael, Claire Originator and other titles in the series
Farmer, Nancy House of scorpion
Fforde, Jasper Eyre affair and rest of series
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never let me go
James, P.D Children of men
Le Guin, Ursula K. The left hand of darkness and other titles
McCaffrey, Anne Dragon series
Shinn, Sharon Novel of Samaria series
Westerfeld, Scott Uglies series
"Galax arena" - Gillian Rubenstein -good young teenage protagonist
"A wrinkle in time" Madeline L'Engle - an oldie but a goody
"The ship who sang" Ursula Leguin - one of my favourites
"Rocannon's world" Leguin
Some fantasy
"The tombs of atuan" which is the second in the "Wizard of Earthsea
series - again teenage girl main character
"The Golden compass" or "Northern Lights" (in Australia) Phillip Pullman
- I love the girl character in this
"Dragonsong" and "Dragonsinger" by Anne McCaffrey
"The blue sword" Robin McKinley
"Three children and it" E. Nesbit - again - an oldie but a goody
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Kurt Vonnegut Jr (Slaughter House 5, Cats Cradle)
1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
War of the Worlds HG Wells
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Madagranda David McRobbie
The last book in the Universe - Rodman Philbrick
Phillip Pullman's trilogies
BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=616
http://www.delanylibrary.com/ChoosingBooks.html .
PHILIP PULLMAN
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner
The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens (or other good anonymous ballads)
First Book of Samuel, Chapter 17 (the story of David and Goliath)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
A good collection of myths and legends
A good collection of fairy tales
J. K. ROWLING
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
ANNE FINE
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Stiff Upper Lip (or any other Jeeves book) by P.G. Wodehouse
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles (or another Sherlock Holmes story) by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
A Shame to Miss, 1, 2 & 3
ANDREW MOTION
The Odyssey by Homer
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth Jane
Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
MAGGIE GEE
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Go Tell It On The Mountain James Baldwin
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley
High Windows Philip Larkin
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood
VICTORIA GLENDINNING
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar or Antony and Cleopatra by William
Shakespeare
Far from the Madding Crowd or Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Some poems by W.B.Yeats , T.S.Eliot and Philip Larkin
A novel by Ernest Hemingway
A novel by Graham Greene
A novel by J.G. Ballard
A novel by Evelyn Waugh
A novel by Martin Amis
A novel by Margaret Atwood
(c) The Royal Society of Literature 2006.
BEN OKRI
10½ Inclinations
There is a secret trail of books meant to inspire and enlighten
you. Find that trail.
Read outside your own nation, colour, class, gender.
Read the books your parents hate.
Read the books your parents love.
Have one or two authors that are important, that speak to you;
and make their works your secret passion.
Read widely, for fun, stimulation, escape.
Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later,
cautiously.
Read what you're not supposed to read.
Read for your own liberation and mental freedom.
Books are like mirrors. Don't just read the words. Go into the
mirror.
That is where the real secrets are. Inside. Behind. That's where the gods
dream, where our realities are born. 10½) Read the world. It is the most
mysterious book of all.
(c) Ben Okri 2006. All rights reserved.
RIGHTS OF THE READER
http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Downloads/The-Rights-of-the-Reader-poster
READING CIRCLES
www.roxanneciddor.com
TEEN SHORT READS
CHERUB series, especially the first part of chapter 10 of The Fall
Alex Rider series, especially, the prologue to Eagle Strike
The Braves (aka The Home of the Braves) by David Klass, chapter 2
James Riordan's When the Guns Fall Silent
Night Rise (Horowitz)
Raw (Scott Monk) - Year 9 up
Andrew Daddo - Dacked (the scene where Fergus and Kelvin go tubing on
Sydney Harbour - with fairly disastrous results)
Markus Zusak - The Underdog (The first chapter and dream)
Henry Lawson - The Loaded Dog (it might be an oldie, but the boys love it)
Charlie Higson - Silverfin (the first chapter)
Steven Herrick - The Simple Gift (the boys are amazed it is poetry)
Aron Ralston - Between a Rock and a Hard Place (true story of the hiker who
chopped his hand off with his Leatherman after becoming trapped - the boys
love the pictures!)
Homer Hickam - October Sky (the early part where Homer and his mates test
their first rocket and blow up his mother's fence and rose garden. This is
the amazing true story of a mountain boy in Virginia who aspired to build
rockets and work for NASA... and he eventually did!)
Anthony Horowitz - The Devil and his Boy (the first chapter... this is a
good one to read in conjunction with the study of Shakespeare)
Deborah Ellis - Diego Run! (the scene where Diego and Mando escape - am
reading this at the moment and it is going down well)
Bram Stoker - Dracula (I just love doing the accent for this one!!)
Classic Short Stories
http://www.classicshorts.com/
BOYS
http://boysblokesbooks.edublogs.org/
7/8/9 READING LISTS
Don't call me Ishmael! Bauer, Michael Gerard Comedy M
Mister Monday Garth Nix Fantasy
Number 8 Fienberg, Anna Adventure M/F
Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong Kirsty Murray F
One son is enough Peggy Woodford Historical M/F
Faking Sweet J.C. Burke
Love is a UFO Spillman, Ken Relationships M
Barefoot Kids Hawke, Steve Racism F
My Big Birkett Lisa Shanahan F
Juggling with Mandarins by V.M. Jones
Starseeker by T. Bowler
Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937 by A. Heiss
The Lake at the End of the World by ááC. Macdonald
Stargirl by J. Spinelli
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society by A. Y. Mah
To the Boy in Berlin by E. Honey
The Dons by A. Fusillo
The Cursed áby M. Panckridge
Augustine's Lunch by L. Budd
www.insideadog.com.au
www.ala.org.ala
www.guysread.com
www.aslansw.org.au/pubs/bookslit.htm
www.readplus.com.au
www.penguin.com.au/PUFFIN/default.htm
AUTHOR VISIT REVIEWS
http://www.pa.ash.org.au/authorvisits/
http://www.kidsreads.com/coming_soon.asp
http://www.teenreads.com/coming_soon.asp
www.queenslandbooks.com/schools.
BOYS POINT OF VIEW
James Moloney (Have only read Dougy and Gracey)
'Bridge to Wiseman's Cove 3
Lost Property 3 (started last night)
Touch Me 2
Marcus Zusak's
Underdog,2
Ruben Wolf,
The Messenger 2
David Metzenthen's books
Boys of Blood and Bone 2
David McRobbie,
Fergus McPhail
Tyro -
Micahel G. Bauer
The Running Man
Don't Call Me Ishmael
Nick Earl, 28 Shades of Brown (Good choice with movie)
'Doppelganger' by Michael Parker
Archie Fusillo's The Dons
'Clay' by David Almond
Scot Gardner's books, eg Burning Eddy
JC Burke's 'The Story of Tom Brennan', 4
A little piece of ground by Elizabeth Laird
Will by Maria Boyd 2 (Might buy this next week!)
Malorie Blackman's Nought's and crosses
Shadows in the mirror" by Cameron Nunn
Daredevils by Bill Condon
Scott Monk, Raw
Morris Gelitzman's 'Once' (Very good with Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Fredrick,
Elli, Hitler's Daughter, Anne Frank in Lit Circles)
AUTHOR TREASURE HUNT
New treasure hunt:
http://www.lakemunmorah.ps.education.nsw.gov.au/t_hunts/treasure_hunts.htm
On-line worksheet- an improved version of the clickable worksheets with a printable worksheet for students
http://www.lakemunmorah.ps.education.nsw.gov.au/onlineworksheets/stage_3/govt&federation.htm
Summer Activities - ReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/
Activities arranged by grade level to keep kids reading, writing, and
following their curiosity - and there's no need to limit that to
summertime.
Here's a great reading website for JP students. The Starfall
learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service.It is US based
and 4 sections from ABC to learn to read aand I'm reading.
www.starfall.com
READING ALOUD TO TEENS
Andrew Daddo - Dacked (the scene where Fergus and Kelvin go tubing on
Sydney Harbour - with fairly disastrous results)
Markus Zusak - The Underdog (The first chapter and dream)
Henry Lawson - The Loaded Dog (it might be an oldie, but the boys love it)
Charlie Higson - Silverfin (the first chapter)
Steven Herrick - The Simple Gift (the boys are amazed it is poetry)
Aron Ralston - Between a Rock and a Hard Place (true story of the hiker
who chopped his hand off with his Leatherman after becoming trapped - the
boys love the pictures!)
Homer Hickam - October Sky (the early part where Homer and his mates test
their first rocket and blow up his mother's fence and rose garden. This is the amazing true story of a mountain boy in Virginia who aspired to build rockets and work for NASA... and he eventually did!)
Anthony Horowitz - The Devil and his Boy (the first chapter... this is a good one to read in conjunction with the study of Shakespeare)
Deborah Ellis - Diego Run! (the scene where Diego and Mando escape
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Parts of the Read aloud Handbook are available online
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/rah_intro_p1.html
And some other quotes on research
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/aai.html
Another source of information
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr213.shtml
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr081.shtml
http://www.toread.com/
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0STR/is_8_110/ai_74826102
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3722/is_199910/ai_n8869711
http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/rrq/v32/i2/abstracts/RRQ-32-2-Rosenhouse.html
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/dnd/ps24_AR_02.shtml
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/schoolimprovement/effective/briefs/readaloud
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/reading/10048
http://www.carla.umn.edu/immersion/acie/vol1/Feb1998_StudentsRead.html
http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip59.html
AFTER HP
"Harry Potter. What Next?" You can download it from http://www.cbc.org.au/vic/harrypotter.pdf.
You could try this list and the link it also contains.
http://www.consultpivotal.com/higher_harry_potter.htm
FILM/BOOK TIE INS
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
A wrinkle in time;
Anne of green gables.
Babe (the sheep pig) by Dick King-Smith
Because of winn-dixie by Kate Dicamillo
Bridge to terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Charlotte's Web
Ella enchanted,
The Enormous crocodile (Dahl)
Hating Alison Ashley
Howl's moving castle
The Indian in the cupboard
James and the giant peach
Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
Lockie Leonard (TV series)
Mary Poppins
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Millions (Boyce)
Nancy Drew
Playing Beatie Bow
Polar express
A series of Unfortunate events
Storm boy,
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
The BFG
The borrowers (TV series?)
The iron giant
The secret garden
The snowman (Briggs)
The thief lord
The witches (dahl), ,
Treasure planet
Tuck everlasting
The Roman mysteries
Willy Wonka
SCIENCE FICTION
Blackman, Malorie Noughts and crosses series
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the sower (series)
Bujold, Lois McMaster Vorkosigan series
Carmichael, Claire Originator and other titles in the series
Farmer, Nancy House of scorpion
Fforde, Jasper Eyre affair and rest of series
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never let me go
James, P.D Children of men
Le Guin, Ursula K. The left hand of darkness and other titles
McCaffrey, Anne Dragon series
Shinn, Sharon Novel of Samaria series
Westerfeld, Scott Uglies series
"Galax arena" - Gillian Rubenstein -good young teenage protagonist
"A wrinkle in time" Madeline L'Engle - an oldie but a goody
"The ship who sang" Ursula Leguin - one of my favourites
"Rocannon's world" Leguin
Some fantasy
"The tombs of atuan" which is the second in the "Wizard of Earthsea
series - again teenage girl main character
"The Golden compass" or "Northern Lights" (in Australia) Phillip Pullman
- I love the girl character in this
"Dragonsong" and "Dragonsinger" by Anne McCaffrey
"The blue sword" Robin McKinley
"Three children and it" E. Nesbit - again - an oldie but a goody
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Kurt Vonnegut Jr (Slaughter House 5, Cats Cradle)
1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
War of the Worlds HG Wells
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Madagranda David McRobbie
The last book in the Universe - Rodman Philbrick
Phillip Pullman's trilogies
BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=616
http://www.delanylibrary.com/ChoosingBooks.html .
PHILIP PULLMAN
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner
The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens (or other good anonymous ballads)
First Book of Samuel, Chapter 17 (the story of David and Goliath)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
A good collection of myths and legends
A good collection of fairy tales
J. K. ROWLING
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
ANNE FINE
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Stiff Upper Lip (or any other Jeeves book) by P.G. Wodehouse
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles (or another Sherlock Holmes story) by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
A Shame to Miss, 1, 2 & 3
ANDREW MOTION
The Odyssey by Homer
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth Jane
Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
MAGGIE GEE
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Go Tell It On The Mountain James Baldwin
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley
High Windows Philip Larkin
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood
VICTORIA GLENDINNING
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar or Antony and Cleopatra by William
Shakespeare
Far from the Madding Crowd or Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Some poems by W.B.Yeats , T.S.Eliot and Philip Larkin
A novel by Ernest Hemingway
A novel by Graham Greene
A novel by J.G. Ballard
A novel by Evelyn Waugh
A novel by Martin Amis
A novel by Margaret Atwood
(c) The Royal Society of Literature 2006.
BEN OKRI
10½ Inclinations
There is a secret trail of books meant to inspire and enlighten
you. Find that trail.
Read outside your own nation, colour, class, gender.
Read the books your parents hate.
Read the books your parents love.
Have one or two authors that are important, that speak to you;
and make their works your secret passion.
Read widely, for fun, stimulation, escape.
Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later,
cautiously.
Read what you're not supposed to read.
Read for your own liberation and mental freedom.
Books are like mirrors. Don't just read the words. Go into the
mirror.
That is where the real secrets are. Inside. Behind. That's where the gods
dream, where our realities are born. 10½) Read the world. It is the most
mysterious book of all.
(c) Ben Okri 2006. All rights reserved.
RIGHTS OF THE READER
http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Downloads/The-Rights-of-the-Reader-poster
READING CIRCLES
www.roxanneciddor.com
TEEN SHORT READS
CHERUB series, especially the first part of chapter 10 of The Fall
Alex Rider series, especially, the prologue to Eagle Strike
The Braves (aka The Home of the Braves) by David Klass, chapter 2
James Riordan's When the Guns Fall Silent
Night Rise (Horowitz)
Raw (Scott Monk) - Year 9 up
Andrew Daddo - Dacked (the scene where Fergus and Kelvin go tubing on
Sydney Harbour - with fairly disastrous results)
Markus Zusak - The Underdog (The first chapter and dream)
Henry Lawson - The Loaded Dog (it might be an oldie, but the boys love it)
Charlie Higson - Silverfin (the first chapter)
Steven Herrick - The Simple Gift (the boys are amazed it is poetry)
Aron Ralston - Between a Rock and a Hard Place (true story of the hiker who
chopped his hand off with his Leatherman after becoming trapped - the boys
love the pictures!)
Homer Hickam - October Sky (the early part where Homer and his mates test
their first rocket and blow up his mother's fence and rose garden. This is
the amazing true story of a mountain boy in Virginia who aspired to build
rockets and work for NASA... and he eventually did!)
Anthony Horowitz - The Devil and his Boy (the first chapter... this is a
good one to read in conjunction with the study of Shakespeare)
Deborah Ellis - Diego Run! (the scene where Diego and Mando escape - am
reading this at the moment and it is going down well)
Bram Stoker - Dracula (I just love doing the accent for this one!!)
Classic Short Stories
http://www.classicshorts.com/
BOYS
http://boysblokesbooks.edublogs.org/
7/8/9 READING LISTS
Don't call me Ishmael! Bauer, Michael Gerard Comedy M
Mister Monday Garth Nix Fantasy
Number 8 Fienberg, Anna Adventure M/F
Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong Kirsty Murray F
One son is enough Peggy Woodford Historical M/F
Faking Sweet J.C. Burke
Love is a UFO Spillman, Ken Relationships M
Barefoot Kids Hawke, Steve Racism F
My Big Birkett Lisa Shanahan F
Juggling with Mandarins by V.M. Jones
Starseeker by T. Bowler
Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937 by A. Heiss
The Lake at the End of the World by ááC. Macdonald
Stargirl by J. Spinelli
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society by A. Y. Mah
To the Boy in Berlin by E. Honey
The Dons by A. Fusillo
The Cursed áby M. Panckridge
Augustine's Lunch by L. Budd
www.insideadog.com.au
www.ala.org.ala
www.guysread.com
www.aslansw.org.au/pubs/bookslit.htm
www.readplus.com.au
www.penguin.com.au/PUFFIN/default.htm
AUTHOR VISIT REVIEWS
http://www.pa.ash.org.au/authorvisits/
Primary Reading
SERIES
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Maxx Rumble
AFL books
Captain Underpants
Aussie nibbles
Aussie bites
Goosebumps
Deltora Quest
Celebrate reading
Magic school bus
STORYMAKERS
Dr Suess story maker at www.suessville.com
www.starfall.com
PICTURE BOOKS
http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/ is a great general picture book site
FAIRYTALES
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/fairytales.htm
http://www.cln.org/themes/fairytales.html
http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/
Some good interpretations of Little Red Riding Hood are at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood
EASY READERS THAT LOOK TOUGH
* http://www.teslbooks.com
* Gr8 Reads Series - Titles such as "Coma" and "Alien" -
dark-looking covers, published by Barrington Stoke
* "Hell Island" by Matthew Reilly
* The Headlights Series
* http://primary.cengage.com.au/category/1723 - The "Fast Forward"
series has won awards in the category of easy-readers.
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Maxx Rumble
AFL books
Captain Underpants
Aussie nibbles
Aussie bites
Goosebumps
Deltora Quest
Celebrate reading
Magic school bus
STORYMAKERS
Dr Suess story maker at www.suessville.com
www.starfall.com
PICTURE BOOKS
http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/ is a great general picture book site
FAIRYTALES
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/fairytales.htm
http://www.cln.org/themes/fairytales.html
http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/
Some good interpretations of Little Red Riding Hood are at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood
EASY READERS THAT LOOK TOUGH
* http://www.teslbooks.com
* Gr8 Reads Series - Titles such as "Coma" and "Alien" -
dark-looking covers, published by Barrington Stoke
* "Hell Island" by Matthew Reilly
* The Headlights Series
* http://primary.cengage.com.au/category/1723 - The "Fast Forward"
series has won awards in the category of easy-readers.
Policies
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/library/index.htm
http://www.alia.org.au/groups/aliaschools/
• Podcast and webcast: Patron Policies and Latchkey Children
http://infoblog.infopeople.org/2007/07/podcast_of_patron_policies_and.php
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=5
http://www.alia.org.au/groups/aliaschools/policies.procedures.pdf
http://www.alia.org.au/groups/aliaschools/
• Podcast and webcast: Patron Policies and Latchkey Children
http://infoblog.infopeople.org/2007/07/podcast_of_patron_policies_and.php
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=5
http://www.alia.org.au/groups/aliaschools/policies.procedures.pdf
Literature
http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/charlottes_web/charlottes_web_ch1.htm
http://www.roalddahl.com/
http://tinyurl.com/yp6e7p
"choose your own adventure" on www.readwritethink.org
WRITING COMPETITIONS:
http://wordbox.bravehost.com.
Future Leaders - www.futureleaders.com.au
Wakakirri National Story Festival - www.wakakirri.com
Qieu, EtAQ and the Courier Mail Literary Competition -
http://www.qieu.asn.au/406.html
2008 Simpson Prize - http://www.qhta.com.au/competitions.htm
CSR Essay Competition -
http://www.partnerships.gov.au/csr/corporate_csr_essay_competition.shtml
http://www.roalddahl.com/
http://tinyurl.com/yp6e7p
"choose your own adventure" on www.readwritethink.org
WRITING COMPETITIONS:
http://wordbox.bravehost.com.
Future Leaders - www.futureleaders.com.au
Wakakirri National Story Festival - www.wakakirri.com
Qieu, EtAQ and the Courier Mail Literary Competition -
http://www.qieu.asn.au/406.html
2008 Simpson Prize - http://www.qhta.com.au/competitions.htm
CSR Essay Competition -
http://www.partnerships.gov.au/csr/corporate_csr_essay_competition.shtml
Literacy
BOYS LITERACY
http://www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/F7CA461F-7DCD-40F0-A7F6-2AF41E8DFC90/1567/ExecsumLiteracy.pdf
LITERACY STRATEGIES
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/teaching/literacy.htm
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/teaching/leadership.htm
VISUAL LITERACY
http://www.myread.org/guide_visual.htm
Reading the Visuals in the Middle Years by Rod Quin
http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/catalogue/product.php?cat_id=1470
Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies by Michele Anstey and Geoff Bull
http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/catalogue/product.php?cat_id=1739
What's Hot! A way in to teaching critical literacies by Christine Ludwig
and Suzette Holm
http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/catalogue/product.php?cat_id=1403
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/english/media/visual.htm
http://k-8visual.info/
This site seems quite comprehensive, and is Australian to boot!
http://www.readingonline.org/
www.pomona.edu/Academics/courserelated/classprojects/Visual-lit/intro/intro.html
http://www.jakesonline.org/visual_lit.htm
http://www.bibliotech.us/pdfs/InfoLit.pdf
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/visual.html
This site explains the elements of design in picture books
http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6585/class/art.html
http://www.fno.org/oct05/images.html
http://www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/F7CA461F-7DCD-40F0-A7F6-2AF41E8DFC90/1567/ExecsumLiteracy.pdf
LITERACY STRATEGIES
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/teaching/literacy.htm
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/teaching/leadership.htm
VISUAL LITERACY
http://www.myread.org/guide_visual.htm
Reading the Visuals in the Middle Years by Rod Quin
http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/catalogue/product.php?cat_id=1470
Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies by Michele Anstey and Geoff Bull
http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/catalogue/product.php?cat_id=1739
What's Hot! A way in to teaching critical literacies by Christine Ludwig
and Suzette Holm
http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/catalogue/product.php?cat_id=1403
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/english/media/visual.htm
http://k-8visual.info/
This site seems quite comprehensive, and is Australian to boot!
http://www.readingonline.org/
www.pomona.edu/Academics/courserelated/classprojects/Visual-lit/intro/intro.html
http://www.jakesonline.org/visual_lit.htm
http://www.bibliotech.us/pdfs/InfoLit.pdf
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/visual.html
This site explains the elements of design in picture books
http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6585/class/art.html
http://www.fno.org/oct05/images.html
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