REAL+AUTHORS

REAL AUTHORS

Many authors now have their own websites. On this page, we'll be posting some great sites that will introduce you to new authors or direct you to some of your favourites. Be sure to follow up by checking out one of their books from our library.

** Author #1 Mo Willems ** **Primary students are being introduced to Mo Willems in our library.** **Check his website him out with this link:** [|Mo Willems]




 * Author #2 Bill Peet **

**Bill Peet is one of my favourites.** **Although his website is not as engaging as Mo Willem's, Mrs. Partridge's grade one/two class will be taking the quiz from it after reading Bill Peet books for the last two weeks.**

**This one is Bill Peet's official website:** [|**official site**] **This site was written by a group of grade five boys and is where we completed the quiz:** [|QUIZ]


 * The class got 8 out of 11 correct the first go around (73%) and then 10/11 (91%) when given a chance to correct their answers. **
 * Now that was fun! **


 * Author # 3 Jon Scieszka **


 * Jon Scieszka has a wild imagination. He wrote The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs among many others. **
 * His website is just as imaginative. Here it is: [|Jon Scieszka]**



Author # 4 Shel Silverstein Poet EXTRAORDINAIRE Shel Silverstein wrote __**Where the Sidewalk Ends**__, __**A Light in the Attic**__ and __**The Giving Tree**__ and many other books found in our library. This website is a blast: [|shel]

Author #5 Eric Carle



**It's the 40th anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar!!!!!**
 * Can you believe it?**


 * Here's his website [|ERIC CARLE]**

[|youtube of The Very Hungry Caterpillar]

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Author # 7 Roald Dahl

James and the Giant Peach, **Danny Champion of the World**, Charile and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, The Twits... Any of these ring a bell? They are all written by the wonderful author Roald Dahl Check out his interview on the website. He shares some great tips on how to write.

[|ROALD DAHL]