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Specializing in reviews of books and interviews with authors that may, at times, be overlooked by general reviewers and the market.

Biographies of past winners, video interviews with Nobel Laureates and video of Nobel Lectures given by winners on a subject related to their winning the prize.

Thousands of free, full-text books, poems, articles, short stories and plays ready to read online. Articles and interviews extend the experience and each page has a link to a discussion forum where you can ask questions of other readers or just opine on what you've read. If you want to get deeper into what you're reading, study guides are available. There's also a library of reference books, biographies, classic non-fiction and religious texts.

Anyone can search or browse the extensive list of book lists created by created by teachers, reading experts, authors, parents, and Scholastic. You need to register as a teacher or parent, however, if you want to create lists.

Non-profit organizaation that offers free online lessons to children around the world. Lessons are games with sound that teach shapes, colors, letters, numbers and keyboarding.

Created by the Webster Public Library Children's department staff members, the Children's Series Binder seeks to create a comprehensive listing of series books for children to help librarians, teachers, parents, and kids find the chronological and publication order of series books.

Reviews, features, author interviews and book excerpts from the national daily and the Sunday book review.

Community-maintained database of book information, including reviews and ratings. Find books by title, author, rating, or genre.

Audio library of interviews from Don Swaim's CBS Radio program, Book Beat. Originally broadcast as two-minutes condensations of interviews that typically lasted 30 to 45, this site makes them available in their entirety.

A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. The Project is designed to offer graduate and undergraduate students in various disciplines the opportunity to edit their own texts.