Jerri's Best Picks & 
Other Recommended Books
Online Purchase Links for Jerri's Favorites
(great for gifts, teacher ideas & more)

Promoting Family Reading
Ten Steps to a Kid-Literate Family
The WonderWise Parent

Jackie French Koller's How to Publish (Bind) Your Own Book site

Children's Literature Resource Sites
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Children's Book Council
Children's Literature Web Guide
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature

Kay Vandergrift's Children's Literature site
Verla Kay's Website

Children's Literature & Librarianship 
Online Discussion Groups
Child_Lit
PUBYAC

For Librarians:
Assisting Authors At Your Library

Cattails
Cattails - Typha - Wikipedia entry
Cattails: Habitat or Hassle
Cattails - Uses by Humans and Animals
Native Tech: Cattails and Grasses

Corn
Corny Culture - Stuff Made With Corn
How a Corn Plant Grows
Kansas Corn Learning Center
The Story of Corn - Quick Facts
Corn - Maize - Wikipedia Entry
The Great Corn Adventure

Cottonwood Trees
Jerri's Cottonwood Tree Photos
Cottonwood (fact page)
Cottonwood Tree Coloring Page
Eastern Cottonwood

Post Rock Country
Land of the Post Rock (explanation)

Meadowlarks
Great Plains Nature Center - Western Meadowlark

Patuxent Bird Identification Center: Western Meadowlark

Salmon River Gazette - Western Meadowlark

Nebraska State Historical Society Kids' Fun - Meadowlark Coloring Page

The Prairie
The Konza Prairie
The Konza Prairie Nature Trail in June
The Konza Prairie Nature Trail in October
Nature Conservancy - Konza Prairie

Sunflowers
Sunflower Information
Jerri's Kansas Sunflower Photos
Sunflowers - Wikipedia entry
National Sunflower Association

Sod Houses and Sod Buildings
Pioneer Life: Sod Houses
Oklahoma Prairie Country - Sod Houses
Sod House Museum

Tall Tales
Tall Tales - EduScapes

Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater Editions
(Reader's theater scripts for several tall tales.)

Go to Kansas Katie book pages on this website.

Go to Twister Twyla book pages on this website.

Children's Authors & Illustrators on the Web
(on Children's Literature Web Guide)

Kay Vandergrift's Children's Authors Links

Tedd Arnold
Avi
Jan Brett
Betsy Byars
Eric Carle
Beverly Cleary
Anna Grossnickle Hines
Alice McLerran
Katherine Paterson
Dav Pilkey
Robert Quackenbush
Lois Ruby
Janet Stevens
Hans Wilhelm

Young Adult Authors

Chris Crutcher

Children's Writers Links
(For people who write for children)
The Basics from Ravenstone Press
Aaron's Kidwriter Page  (From Aaron Shepard)
Aaron's Young Author Page
- For Kids Who Write Stories
Institute of Children's Literature
Children's Writing Resource Center
The Purple Crayon
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Verla Kay's Website

Johnny also:
created sunflowers (see the links above)
used a cottonwood tree to make his tools (see links above)
built and lived in a soddy (see links Johnny Kaw - The Story of the Statueabove)
lived on the prairie (see links above)

Jayhawks
The Legend of the Kansas Jayhawk
(from the University of Kansas)

Pioneer Trails and Westward Movement
Along the Chisholm Trail
Covered Wagons - Prairie Schooners
The Oregon-Trail Home Page

Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan - Roadside America
(photos of Paul Bunyan statues around the country.)
Paul Bunyan - Wikipedia entry
Paul Bunyan in Bemidji, Minn.

Tall Tales
Tall Tales - EduScapes

Other Kansas themes from Johnny Kaw
The Dust Bowl - PBS Website 
Lots of tornado links in the left column on this page.

Wheat Mania! Kansas Wheathearts Educational Web

Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater Editions
(Reader's theater scripts for several tall tales.)

Go to Johnny Kaw book page on this website.

Dolls from Izzie's Time
A Victorian Christmas - Dolls
Wax Dolls

Norwegian Americans:
The Norwegian American Home Page
The Norwegian Table
Norwegian Food and Recipes

Sons of Norway
Sons of Norway Recipes

Fergus Falls, Minnesota Links (Izzie's Town)
Fergus Falls, Minn. Chamber of Commerce Home Page

Fergus Falls Journal (online newspaper)

Minnesota Historical Society

Victorian Valentines

Go to the Izzie book page on this website

Landmark Editions
Books written and illustrated by children & young people. Selected through a contest.

How to Build a Frame Loom and Weave On It
Good pages of simply diagrammed instructions

See also the children's writer's links on this page, and links for Manhattan, Kansas (below) - Jeff's town.

Go to the Imagicat book page on this website.