The Fantastic Fiction website is maintained by Fantastic Fiction Limited, a small family-run company based in Lancashire in the United Kingdom. The site includes bibliographies for over 30,000 authors with information on over 350,000 books.

On July 21, 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course compiled and released its own list of the century’s top 100 novels at the request of the Modern Library editorial board. How many of these have you read?

This is one-stop shopping for a dictionary and thesaurus. There is an audio function for accurate pronunciation.

Lexipedia is an online visual dictionary and thesaurus which displays word relationships in colorful, animated visual word webs.

Each year, University of Massachusetts professor Copper Giloth asks her Computers in Fine Arts students to illustrate or animate an Aesop fable, along with their own modern retelling of the story. This collection of nearly forty fables is the best of that student work dating back to 1994.

Designed for a college course by Heidi Anne Heiner, this site is an excellent resource for anyone seeking information on fairy tales. The site is well designed and very easy to navigate, with plenty of beautiful illustrations that breathe life into the various pages. This is a very useful and entertaining stop for anyone interested in studying fairy tales.

This National Geographic site highlights the tales of the Brothers Grimm. This is an amazing site – you’ll choose the elements you want in the stories you choose to read or have read to you (audio available on some). BE WARNED, however, these are unabridged original versions, and do not necessarily have happy endings! Click on the treasure box for a biography, resource links, and a kid's activity page. Click this link if you would like to see the very cool introduction. If you experience difficulty viewing the page, return here and click the next link which bypasses the introduction.

This link bypasses the introduction on the National Geographic site on Grimms Fairy Tales.

Few writing labs provide the coverage of grammar and writing topics that Purdue University’s OWL offers. Printable handouts cover writing strategies and genres, research steps, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure, parts of speech, and more. There are interactive exercises as well as rules and examples. This site is a keeper!

An excellent site once maintained by the late Professor Charles Darling at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut. A quick look at the index will make the scope of this site clear. There are thorough explanations of grammatical concepts, in addition to help with writing and research. There are dozens of quizzes to check your comprehension of grammar and usage, and there's a search engine.

These pages from the University of Victoria’s Department of English identify and help to rehabilitate many common writing errors: the comma splice, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, wordiness, overuse of the passive voice, faulty parallelism, faulty agreement, insufficient variation, misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, squinting modifiers, and mixed metaphor.

This site at Acadia University provides help with the 10 errors the English Department faculty members find most often in their students' written work. There are diagnostic quizzes, but these are available only to students at Acadia.

This is Paul Brians' exhaustive site on usage errors. Nothing sharpens up a class like regular visits to these pages.

This page of the Academy of American Poets provides a poetic form list and glossary, as well as a search mechanism for accessing poems by title or author. This is a site well worth exploring! It features poet biographies, as well as video and audio as available.

Located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, the Folger Library is home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art. Part of the mission of the library is to advance understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's writings and of the culture of early modern Europe through various programs designed for all students and for the general public.

Try your hand at four interactive and fun Shakespeare games created specially to test your knowledge of the Bard and his plays.

Wordle is a great tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence (i.e., makes them larger) to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images are yours; you can print them out, or save them to the gallery to share. Wordle does have some software requirements, particularly if you wish to save your work, so you’ll need to follow up individually.

TAKE THE LAL WRITING CHALLENGE! How has an author's work--novel, nonfiction, poetry--changed your view of the world or yourself? What did you learn about yourself that you didn't realize before reading the author's work? This isn't a dull book report assignment, no way! The author already wrote the book and knows what happened. What the author doesn't know is how you reacted while reading the book. Write about that--your response in a persuasive and personal letter to the author! That's the LAL writing challenge! Each year, LAL awards thousands of dollars through state and national prizes. For more information on how you as a young reader can enter, browse through this site for sample letters and the how-to-enter guidelines and required entry coupon.

This award honors Keene State College's professor emeritus in Sociology and founder of the Center for Holocaust Studies. It is given in recognition of excellence in Holocaust Studies. Students and members of the local community are invited to submit essays, historical analyses, stories, poems, musical compositions, dance, film, theatre and visual arts exploring and expressing their own personal relationship to or reflections on the Holocaust. The award ceremony is scheduled in conjunction with Yom HaShoah (the Holocaust Day of Remembrance) where presentations are given by the award-winning participants and monetary and book awards are granted. Entries will be judged by committee and evaluated on their depth of vision, insight, creativity, originality, and technical ability.