What’s New in Google Lit Trips...
June 17, 2010
More kudos for author and Lit Trip collaborator, Elizabeth Partridge! Author Elizabeth Partridge collaborated on the development of the Google Lit Trip for her book Marching for Freedom. The book has garnered several prestigious book awards, the most recent being named the winner of the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Bood Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature in the nonfiction category.
June 15, 2010
Congratulations to Google Lit Trips contributor, Beryl Reid! Beryl Reid, developer of the magnificant collection of Author Homes was recently promoted by Google to the elite status of “Super Modeler” for the consistent high quality of her many sketchup models. We have also added two new homes to her collection here in Google Lit Trips, John Steinbeck’s childhood home in Salinas, California and the Robert Frost Farmhouse in Derry, New Hampshire.
April 8, 2010
Google Lit Trips passes 500,000 visitor count!
April 7, 2010
School Library Journal's Battle of the Kids' Books is a competition between 16 of the very best books for young people published in 2009, judged by some of the biggest names in children's books.”
Congratulations to author and Google Lit Trip developer Elizabeth Partridge. her book, Marching for Freedom won the School Library Journal’s “Battle of the Kids’ Books.”
April 6, 2010
New Lit Trip for The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
March 10, 2010
Revised version of Blood Meridian Lit Trip now available. Contains important link updates.
February 19, 2010
Google Lit Trips project mentioned on Open Culture, my all-time favorite blog!
February 10, 2010
Try out the BETA version of our new Site Search feature in sub-menu above. (Send feedback)
February 2, 2010
Updated version of The Grapes of Wrath posted!
October 6, 2009
If you like Google Lit Trips, you might be interested in Google Historical Voyages and Events, a project by Google Lit Trips developer Carol LaRow. According to Carol, “This site is dedicated to the explorers, voyages, events, and historical backgrounds of countries throughout the World.” Download Google Historical Voyages Invite.pdf.
