Have I got some links for you. Mainly you can thank my mom, who inundated my mailbox this week with lit-related linkage.<\/p>\n
Firstly, here’s a standby for anyone who’s done web research in children’s and YA lit: Vandergrift’s Children’s Literature Page<\/a>. I found this when researching an essay for my Craft of the Young Adult Novel class during grad school, and it contains a veritable plethora of information, bibliographies, web links and scholarly resources. Topics are discussed in a very socially and educationally relevant manner–a great resource.<\/p>\n Pining away with Potter-mania? If you can’t find enough little secrets and fun tidbits to keep you busy on J.K. Rowling’s personal webpage<\/a>–I was fascinated by her biography–you’ll just about get lost in the Harry Potter Lexicon<\/a>. It’s like Cliff Notes for Harry Potter. There’s enough stuff here to fill, like, six volumes. Oh, wait…<\/p>\n The YA Librarians’ Homepage<\/a> is meant to help librarians put together resources for young adults at their libraries, but it contains a lot of great links of general interest, on everything from publishers to journals to graphic novels.<\/p>\n Something I never knew: The song “Cover of the Rolling Stone” was written by Shel Silverstein, much-beloved children’s poet. Recently, reports NPR<\/a>, a new CD was released with some of his most popular songs and poems, plus a new book of previously unpublished poems. If you’ve never had the privilege of hearing a recording of him reading his poetry, you’re missing out–go to the NPR page<\/a> and click the links under “Hear Silverstein’s Works.” (A parenthetical story–in fifth grade we had to memorize a poem every few weeks or so and recite it in front of the class, and I managed to slip a whole bunch of Shel Silverstein poems in there. I’m not sure anyone appreciated it but me…) <\/p>\n