Children's and Adolescent Literature

The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

With thousands of poems found in major anthologies, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web. Search for poems by browsing or searching the texts.

"Language barriers have never been more pronounced. Whether in an urban area of a modern country (e.g. the Chicago Public School system has 73 different languages represented in its student population) or the rural areas of a less developed country (e.g. Mongolia, where the ICDL has its first "branch" and where rural schools do not yet support a culture of reading for pleasure), differences in language are making it harder and harder for educational initiatives to bring about success." About

The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. You can enjoy listening here, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and of poets from the past.

The official website of Academy of American Poets, Poets.org offers hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of poets, almost 2,000 poems, and audio clips of poems.

A guide to the poetic endeavors of U.S. presidents, whether it be the anguished love poems of a youthful George Washington or the religious poetry of John Quincy Adams, many presidents of the United States turned to poetry at certain points in their lives

Author interviews, ideas for parents and educators, and more.

Contains thousands of digital facsimiles of Whitman’s poetry and letters as well as writings about Whitman

Family-friendly webcasts centered around authors and books.

Young Explorer Ebooks from National Geographic and available by Cengage.