AWARDS FOR WEB SITE PAGES

(There are over 500 established hot links from outside web sites to my web site pages and two mirror site in Southeast Asia.)

·        Children’s Literature and Author web site selected to be featured in our new educational Internet product called "5001 Cool Sites for Kids." March 22, 2000.

·        Children's Literature Page http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/childlit.html Web site has been selected to appear in a CD-ROM publication called the World Online Digest (WOLD), 2000.

·        “Learning about the Author and Illustrator” was selected for inclusion on a CD-Rom and in the Crystal Composition Teacher’s Guide: New Rich Curriculum Product produced with the Educational Software Institute in 1999.

·        ZIA Reviewed: Multiple Pages

·        Selected for inclusion (multiple entries)  in “700+ Great Sites: Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Wonderful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults Who Care for Them” American Library Association in 1998.

·        Five Star Review in Internet Underground. Volume 2, No. 4 (April 1997): 76.

·        “Scholarly Snow White” [http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/snowwhite.html]

Eleven web segments, several with thirty or forty additional pages. Placed on www on January 6, 1997. Archived at the SCILS server.

·        Highlighted in long article the Snow White Website in the Chronicle of Higher Education as Outstanding Scholarly site.

·        EUR- Electronic Urban Report’s Website of the Day for Friday, February 23, 1996 for “Children’s Literature Page.”

·        G-Links Awards to “Children’s Literature Page” and “Powerful Images in African American Picture Books Page” on February 27, 1996. “G-Links is a mailing list dedicated to providing Uniform Resource Locators <URL’s> of web sites of interest to people of color, specifically Black people. We are a guide to both commercial/non-commercial web sites and individual Home Pages on the Internet.”

·        The McKinley Group, Inc. Magellan for “Powerful Images in African American Picture Books Page” on April 25, 1996.

  “Your Internet site has been reviewed and rated by the McKinley Group’s professional editorial team, and listed in Magellan, our comprehensive Internet directory of nearly 2 million sites and 40, 000 reviews. To recognize the hard work that has gone into establishing and maintaining your site, we are awarding a special “Reviewed by Magellan” logo for inclusion on your pages. In addition, this site review will be republished as part of the licensing agreements with Time Warner’s Pathfinder, AT&T, the Microsoft Network, IBM, Europe Online, NYNEX, and other information providers. The primary factors we consider in our reviews are: depth of content, ease of exploration, and Net appeal.”

·        Electronic Resources for Youth Services Award “Site of the Week”  June 22-28, 1996, given to “Kay E. Vandergrift’s Special Interest Page.”

      “This scholarly site is intended for exploring ideas and information with students who are interested in youth literature, genre fiction, women’s studies, and related topics. On the youth side, there are materials for young adults, children, and the history of children’s literature. Each section or topic presents questions that can form the basis for further inquiries and research in the field of children’s literature.”

·        Blue Web’n Learning Application Library Award given to the “Children’s Literature Page.”

“Each site included in this database has been selected and reviewed by an Education First Fellow. Your inclusion in the database is an honor reserved for the best instructional lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, and tools on the Web.”