Special things

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Ezines on Kids on the Net

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Positive Images: Winning Writing from the Positive Images Writing Competition 2000 (Nottinghamshire, UK)
Positive Images: Winning Writing, including poems and essays, from the Positive Images Writing Competition 1999 (Nottinghamshire, UK) Includes a story in Hindi: The Magic Brush
Krazy Kennings from John Stocker Middle School, Exeter, UK
Lovely Limericks from John Stocker Middle School, Exeter, UK
Calgary Book Reviews (from Masters' Academy, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Peartree Library Book Club (book reviews from Derby, UK)
Edgewood School and Library Club (poems from Hucknall, Notts., UK)
Harrington School Book Reviews (Derby, UK)
Manor Acorns Book Pages (Authors and their Books, from Birmingham, UK)
Lenton and Radford Community Web (Nottingham, UK)
Bullis Books: internet books from Potomac, MD, USA
Chiddix Chapters: internet books from Normal, IL, USA
Good Shepherd Primary Magazine (Nottingham, UK)

Hypertext Projects from Kids on the Net Workshops

Southwold Primary School (Nottingham, UK)

Friendship Web (hypertext)
Leprechaun Poetry and Stories (can you find the hiding leprechaun?)

Parkwood School: Red Nose Day Special, March 1999 (Derbyshire, UK)

Porchester School Hypertext Writing (Nottingham, UK)

Special Projects from Kids on the Net

School Magazines/Newspapers

Tons Of Fun, Issue 4 Southwold School, Radford, Nottingham

Children's Hypertext Projects

Daisy and the Intergalactic Travelling Salesmen commissioned by 1999 Cheltenham Festival of Literature: a website story that's an interactive adventure begun by Jamila Gavin and written by children from 26 schools across the UK, USA and Australia. (Edited and designed by Helen Whitehead and hosted on Kids on the Net)
Robin Hood — The Time Warp
a gamebook-type hypertext written by a group of 9-13-year-olds for the NOW97 Festival project A Day in the Life of Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Young Writers facilitated by Helen Whitehead and Leonie Winson, also Over the Rainbow,
a sophisticated hypertext story about a group of characters gaining their revenge on the exploitative chatroom habitue Emerald. By 14-17-year-old Nottinghamshire Young Writers.
See also Porchester and Southwold on Kids on the Net.
Alien Abduction: from the Northants Story Festival: four schools co-ordinated by Shoo Rayner, with an introduction by Brenda Scoble on how and why the project happened
Virtual Tour of the Goose Fair Creative use of Web links to provide a virtual Tour of the biggest Travelling Fair in England, (in Nottingham every October). Written and illustrated by pupils of Southwold School with their teacher Mr Widdowson.
Pirate's Booty interactive adventure written and illustrated by Class 3 at Southwold.

ARC Gifted Children Resources Centre Some choose-your-own-adventure type stories from some US children who attended a workshop. Unfortunately not all of these stories still work.
Choose your own adventure from White Middle School (USA)
Choose Your Own Adventure Relay Stories: a project involving three schools in different countries at Virtual Classroom 50
And some US lesson plans for producing this kind of story with young pupils:
- Stories That Grow on Trees
- Adventures in Creating Hypertext Stories

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