This page is less exciting than it looks from the picture of the lynx. It takes you to other fun or useful websites. If you are using a suitable browser, the links will open in a new tab.
   
Sites about children’s books

Achuka

Armadillo

Booktrust

Cool Reads — children’s books reviewed by teenagers

Word Pool

Writeaway

   
Some other children’s writers

Philip Ardagh

Russell Ash

Lucy Coats

Fiona Dunbar

Echo Freer

Anita Ganeri

Meg Harper

Damian Harvey

Mary Hoffman

Michelle Lovric

John Malam

Gillian Philip

Celia Rees

Ann Turnbull

   
Sites for writers

Amaztype — it’s childish, but you can make up your name from your cover pictures stored on Amazon

 
 

Amazon sales rank quick check (a bit sad)

Guide to Moral Rights

Money Claim Online — get money from publishers who haven’t paid you

Nibweb

Royal Literary Fund

Society of Authors

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

Wordpool

World Wide Words

Writers’ Rooms — I love this Guardian series about rooms other writers work in. I’m very nosey, and I love to snoop around other people’s houses. One day I'll put photos of my own working spaces here so that it doesn’t seem as one-sided.