Take a detour with Google Lit Trips:

Visit the locations of such of the best stories in Literature

Shmoop is a great site for all lovers of literature, students and teachers.  Find out about some of the greatest literature of our time!

Want to discover your inner author?  The brainstormer is a great way to gain ideas for your own literary gems!  Check it out at: http://www.distractionbeast.com/brainstormer.swf

What a great site to launch our 2009 tour!

Check out the Geography of some of the most enduring literature of all time: Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Wiesel’s Night are just a few examples of the maps on offer.

Check it out here: http://www.googlelittrips.org/

The 2009 Literature Discovery Tour leaves in February.  This year’s tour organiser (that would be me!) invites  students, parents, educators and librarians (and all book lovers, basically) to participate in the development of our route.

I would love some help finding new and exciting online and offline literature to recommend to others.  The aim of the tour is to foster a sense of reading adventure and encourage wider reading choices.

Please leave a comment if you would like to participate.  Alternatively, email me at discoverlit@gmail.com