Author+Web+Sites

Aliki - Marianthe's Story: Painted Words, Spoken Stories about her ESL experience - interview. Tedd Arnold - official site. Author of Fly Guy and Frog in Space. Drawing step-by-step. E-mints. Relate to use of Idioms with More Parts. Jan and Stan Berenstain - Berenstain Bears - biography, activities. Judy Blume - from E-Mints. Jan Brett - Town Mouse, Country Mouse, The Mitten, and more resources at E-mints. Bio. Coloring pages (such as for The Owl and the Pussycat. Norman Bridwell - Clifford the Big Red Dog and more. Bio. E-mints has a video link. Eve Bunting - Fly Away Home review. Teaching characterization. Books and Teaching ideas. Eric Carle - official web site; biography. Author study activities. Beverly Cleary - E-mints Andrew Clements - E-mints. Doreen Cronin - E-mints on Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type. Official Web site. Lesson Activities. Raul Dahl - E-mints. Demi Tomie de Paola - E-mints. Mem Fox - Hattie and the Rooster review/activity. E-Mints. Official Web site. 20 Do's and Don't's for Writing a Picture Book Gail Gibbons - great for non-fiction. Official Site. E-mints. Kristiana Gregory - historical fiction books like Dear America and Royal Diary books. E-mints. Bio/Q/A. [|Shel Silverstein] Steven Jenkins - science. Nature illustrator. Books. Brothers and Sisters... Biggest, Strongest, Fastest. Making his books. Steven Kellogg - Is your Mama a Lama? Johnny Appleseed, Jack and the Beanstalk, and other traditional stories. Book list. Bio and his art of including movement in picture books. E-mints includes video link to storytelling. Kathryn Lasky - official web site; author of Guardians of Ga'hool, Royal Diaries, Dear America series and more. Leo Lionni - Review, Activity and related books for Little Blue and Little Yellow. E-mints. Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad series - biography; Owl at Home review. E-mints. Lois Lowry - biography. E-mints. James Marshall - The Stupids, Miss Nelson, George and Martha books. Very silly! As described at Carol Hurst's site. Bill Martin - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, E-mints Mercer Mayer Author Study Robert Munsch - Official Site like I love you Forever. Poems. Includes art by readers. E-mints. Laura Numeroff - E-mints. If you give a Mouse a Cookie... Barbara Park - Junie B. Jones author. About the author and book list. E-mints. Bill Peet Patricia Polacco - review of The Keeping Quilt - more book refs on families. E-Mints. J.K. Rowling - E-mints. Cynthia Rylant - Author study resources, including letter, biography, Missing May review. Jon Scieska - Guys Read. Bio. Interview at Scholastic (audio). Author of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man. Trucktown and other books. Maurice Sendak - Bio from PBS. Swine Lake turned into an opera. Dr. Seuss's Seussville David Shannon - Site for No David and other books, activities, interviews from E-Mints. J.R.R. Tolkein Jerry Spinnelli - Official Site for author of Stargirl, Maniac Magee and more. E-mints. William Steig - of Shrek, Abel's Island and more. E-Mints. R.L. Stine - E-mints Chris Van Allsberg - bio. Emints. Jumanji. E.B. White - from E-Mints. Vera Williams - books and teaching themes (community is strong.) Titles include A Chair for my Mother. [|Mo Willems] - Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. Funny Bio. E-mints includes video link. Teacher Guides and video links. Fun page on buses. Jane Yolen - E-mints for Elementary. [|Dan Gutman] [|Jack Prelustky] [|Roald Dahl] [|Andrew Clements] [|Judy Blume] [|Avi]
 * Mercer's words to kids and his web site. Includes children's activities such as coloring book pages and movies to play. I like the movie that shows Mercer Mayer drawing Little Critter at minute 135 here.
 * Biography and younger photo here.
 * Mercer Mayer's Gallery of Artwork. Enter a room. Click each image in a "room" to enlarge. Many differen subjects featured!