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New Content in Kids InfoBits

title_kidsinfobitsGale/Cengage reports that new content has been added to the Kids InfoBits resource. Kids InfoBits is provided statewide as part of El Portal. El Portal resources are funded by grant money from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) admistered by the State of New Mexico through the New Mexico State Library, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

We’re happy biographies were added, since some librarians requested addition of youth-appropriate biography resource in El Portal. We got quotes, but did not have the funds to add one this year. This is a small step in the right direction, though.

A total of 240 author biographies and 197 images from the Kids InfoBits Presents: Authors title now appear in Kids InfoBits.  Biographies written at both the K-2 and K-5 content levels for the following popular authors are now included:

Abraham, Denise GonzalesAlcott, Louisa MayAlexander, LloydAngelou, MayaAusten, Jane

Barrie, J.M.

Baum, L. Frank

Bemelmans, Ludwig

Black, Holly

Blake, William

Bond, Michael

Boynton, Sandra

Bradbury, Ray

Brown, Marcia

Brown, Margaret Wise

Brunhoff, Jean de

Bunting, Eve

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Cabot, Meg

Carroll, Lewis

Chopin, Kate

Cleary, Beverly

Cole, Joanna

Colfer, Eoin

Collins, Suzanne

Crane, Stephen

Cummings, E.E.

Curtis, Christopher Paul

DiCamillo, Kate

Dickens, Charles

Dickinson, Emily

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Eliot, T.S.

Faulkner, William

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fitzhugh, Louise

Freedman, Russell

Fritz, Jean

Frost, Robert

Gaiman, Neil

Gantos, Jack

Grahame, Kenneth

Hamilton, VirginiaHawthorne, NathanielHemingway, ErnestHenkes, KevinHinton, S.E.

Homer

Hughes, Langston

Hurston, Zora Neale

Irving, Washington

Jacques, Brian

Juster, Norton

Keene, Carolyn

King, Stephen

Kinney, Jeff

Kipling, Rudyard

Korman, Gordon

Lang, Andrew

Laskey, Katheryn

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Lee, Harper

Levine, Gail Carson

Lindgren, Astrid

London, Jack

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Macdonald, George

Marshall, James

McKinley, Robyn

Meyer, Stephenie

Miller, Arthur

Milne, A.A.

Morrison, Toni

Nesbit, Edith

Norton, Mary

O’Connor, Flannery

O’Connor, Jane

O’Dell, Scott

Orwell, George

Osbourne, Mary Pope

Paolini, Christopher

Park, Linda Sue

Paterson, Katherine

Poe, Edgar Allan

Potter, BeatrixPullman, PhilipRaschka, ChrisRawls, WilsonRey, Margaret and H.A.

Rohmann, Eric

Russell, Rachel Renee

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de

Selznick, Brian

Sewell, Anna

Shakespeare, William

Silverstein, Shel

Speare, Elizabeth George

Steig, William

Steinbeck, John

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stine, R.L.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Streatfeild, Noel

Thoreau, Henry David

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Twain, Mark

Verne, Jules

Voight, Cynthia

Vonnegut, Kurt

Walker, Alice

Wells, H.G.

White, E.B.

White, T.H.

Whitman, Walt

Wiesner, David

Willems, Mo

Williams, Tennessee

Wrede, Patricia C.

Yep, Laurence

Zerlinsky, Paul O.