Using ICT with the able child in the Literacy Hour

Poetry and drama by long-established authors
www.shakespeare.org.uk

Autobiography / biography / diaries / journals / letters
Roald Dahl
www.roalddahlfans.com
www.roalddahl.org/index2.htm
www.friend.ly.net/scoop/biographies/dahlroald
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/dahl.htm

Laurie Lee
www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lauriele.htm

Range of poetic forms
Adelaide Crapsey (creator of the cinquain)
www.lib.rochester.edu/rbk/CRAPSEY2.HTM
www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/crapsey1.html

Edward Lear
edwardlear.tripod.com
www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/01/LIALear.html
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/lear.htm

Established stories and novels
Philippa Pearce
www.oup.co.uk/oxed/children/fiction/authors/pearce

Terry Pratchett
www.lspace.org

Philip Pullman
www.achuka.co.uk/ppsg.htm
www.randomhouse.com/features/pullman/
www.delanet.com/~ftise/pullman.html

Michael Morpurgo
www.mystworld.com/youngwriter/authors/michael_morpurgo.html

Beatrix Potter
www.peterrabbit.co.uk
www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bpotter.htm

J.R.R. Tolkien
www.tolkiensociety.org
gollum.usask.ca/tolkien

Robert Westall
www.norham.n-tyneside.sch.uk/westall/index.htm

Authors popular with children
Brian Jacques
http://www.redwall.org/dave/biography.html
http://www.mystworld.com/youngwriter/authors/brian_jacques
http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/jacques/tscript.htm

Adèle Geras
http://www.wordpool.co.uk/ap/geras.htm
http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/stories/geras/candle
http://www.achuka.co.uk/guests/adelesg.htm

Anne Fine
http://www.annefine.co.uk
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/rif/word_fun/annefine.htm
http://www.jubileebooks.co.uk/magazine/authors/anne_fine/fine.htm

Jamila Gavin
http://www.jubileebooks.co.uk/magazine/authors/jamila_gavin/jamila_gavin_profile.htm

Malorie Blackman
http://www.achuka.com/mbsg.htm

Lucy Daniels
http://www.scholastic.com.au/Profiles/ProfileDisplay.asp?ProfileId=269
http://www.animalark.co.uk

Jacqueline Wilson
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/wilson/
http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/stories/wilson/index.asp
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/rif/word_fun/jackywilson.htm

J.K. Rowling
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/index.htm
http://www.raincoast.com/kidstitles/kidsauthors/PstoneA.html
http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/stories/rowling/interview.htm
http://www.kidsreads.com/harrypotter/jkrowling.html
http://www.sffworld.com/authors/r/rowling_jk
http://falcon.jmu.edu/%7Eramseyil/rowling.htm

This list gives only a selection from a large number of sites found by Google - it might be worth carrying out an evaluation of the different J.K. Rowling sites as one area of research.

The Young Writer magazine, published three times a year, has a web site which includes interviews with:
Jill Murphy, Michael Rosen, Terry Pratchett, Dick King Smith, Benjamin Zephaniah, Anne Fine, Roger McGough, Robert Swindells, Malorie Blackman, Grace Nicholls, Michael Morpurgo, Quentin Blake, Kit Wright, Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman, James Berry.

There are also interviews with, and information about, a variety of writers at:
http://www.achuka.co.uk
http://www.oup.co.uk/oxed/children/fiction/authors
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm

Stories from the Web has interviews with authors and examples of their work. Pupils may write to their favourite authors, and send work for publication.