60 Second Recap

This is a great site for English teachers, librarians and anyone who loves classic literature. The site is true to its name, it gives 60 second recaps of classic novels. Topics include theme, plot, motifs, symbolism and character overviews. They also provide little trailers for the book. A great way to get young people (or old) excited about what they are going to read and then use it at the end to review the information. This site launched on September 14, 2009 and their library is already pretty impressive. Another nice feature, you can request a book for them to recap if it is not in their library. All around a great resource and it is a lot of fun. Defiantly give this one a look.

http://www.60secondrecap.com/

Helpful Websites

Dr. Denise Agosto, an Associate Professor at the College of Information Science & Technology at Drexel University, has a wonderful website full of valuable information for those in the school library profession, educators or just have an interest in children's literature. If you are looking for multicultural literature for children this is a great resource to use. She even includes information on evaluating your selections as well as well as lists of multicultural awards and links to their websites. You should defiantly check it out:

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dea22/