Useful Links
This page provides links to other sites that complement or support the offerings from Books for Learning. The links below are sorted by category.
Publishers
The Great Books Foundation
The Great Books Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization established in 1947 to promote liberal education for the general public.
Zen Tails
This delightful series of books is ideal for parents who want to introduce children to themes of morality, courage and dignity.
The Loeb Classical Library
This magnificent series of books, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature—the entire classical heritage represented in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes.
Clay Sanskrit Library
The Clay Sanskrit Library has been created to introduce Classical Sanskrit literature to a wide international readership. This literature combines great beauty, enormous variety, and more than three thousand years of continuous history and development.
Fidra Books
A small independent publisher specialising in reprinting children’s books, ranging from 1930s adventure stories to iconic 1960s fantasy novels, and from pony books by Carnegie medal winning authors to contemporary boarding school stories.
Educational Sites
SurLaLune Fairytales
Everything you ever wanted to know about fairy tales, including complete texts, annotations, histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations, free ebooks, over 1,500 illustrations, and lots more.
Winged Sandals
A delightful, award-winning Greek Mythology website for children, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in association with The University of Melbourne's Centre for Classics and Archaeology.
Discover Sanskrit
A website designed to provide an introduction to Sanskrit—one of the oldest languages in the world—as well as the history and culture surrounding it.
Grammar Girl
A really useful and fun site on issues grammatical—answering all those pedantic but intriguing questions you were too afraid to ask.
Worksheet Library
A site offering over 5000 printable K-6 worksheets (many of them free) for teachers, parents and homeschoolers. Created by teachers, the site also offers a free and extensive library of teaching tip articles.
Online Resources
Project Gutenberg
An enormous and growing collection of out-of-copyright literature, all in digital format and free to download.
Educational Resources & Research
Children's Literature
A Website providing independent, critical reviews of children’s literature ‘to help teachers, librarians, childcare providers and parents make appropriate literary choices for children’. The book reviewers include authors, librarians, editors, teachers, children’s literature specialists and physicians. The site also provides extensive links to author and illustrator sites, publishers, parent and teacher resources, children’s literature collections and upcoming events relating to children’s literature.
The National Literacy Trust
A non-profit, UK organisation that offers lots of expert support for building literacy.
National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy
This study, by the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Science and Training, provides useful findings on the value of systematic phonics instruction.
