For Specific Books:

http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst058.html
This site provides a lesson to compare different versions of Cinderella

http://www.ashland.com/education/lesson_plans/archive.html
This site prompts students to read and compare versions of a fairy tale (The Three Little Pigs) and then write their own versions.

http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/lang/ceclang/ceclang044.html
This site shares a mini-unit about Frog and Toad. It introduces Venn diagrams.

http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/story/con.html
This site contains an Island of the Blue Dolphins lesson plan that requires students to go to book-marked pages on the Web. Could be adapted for use without technology. Concentrates on the ideas of loneliness and survival. (Grade 5)

http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/story/con.html
This site provides a unit about the Inuit culture that describes many activities that can be done after students have read the novel Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat. (Grade 5)

http://www.nhptv.org/kn/itv/bat.sht#a
This site describes science and math activities that can be done after viewing Reading Rainbow #108: Stellaluna. However, the book could be incorporated into this mini-unit as well, or some activities could be picked out and done along with the book, without the video.

http://encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=475&lvstart=K&lvend=12&subject=Language+Arts&source=%2D99
This site describes a lesson on dental health that follows reading The Mystery of the Missing Tooth by William H. Hooks. This lesson involves some materials found on the software Encarta, but could be adapted for use without it as well. (Grade K-2)

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Lang_arts/Literature/LIT0018.html
This site provides a pre-reading context clue analysis activity and several other ideas to accompany reading There's a Nightmare in my Closet by Mercer Mayer.

http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/298.html
This site gives a lesson about sequencing intended to follow The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. There are some comments attached, but the meat of the lesson is what's important.

http://www.iusd.k12.ca.us/schools/vista_verde/VistaVerdeWeb/Pattypage/Grandfatherlesson.html
This site gives a lesson plan for Grandfathers Journey by Allen Say. The goal of the lesson plan is to teach core curriculum through the book.

http://www.lennox.k12.ca.us/lessonplan/NatAm/CharSetPlot.html
This site gives a lesson about characters, setting, and plot. It is used for Arrow to the Sun in this lesson, but the general idea could be adapted to other books. The lesson is specific to the classroom and the teacher, but there are some worthwhile ideas.

Lists of Books on Themes

http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/lang/ceclang/ceclang044.html
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: This site gives lists and descriptions of books on different themes (e.g. families, mysteries, rivers, World War II, etc.). It doesn't give lesson plans, exactly, but it seems like a great resource!

General Book Activities

http://www.ashland.com/education/lesson_plans/archive.html
This site shares a nifty lesson plan to build a quilt of books students have read. Provides patterns and an example of a quilt square. It seems like a good activity to build pride and recognize class accomplishments.

http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/story/con.html
Character Concentration is a typical concentration game except this time, it's with book characters. The lesson plan is for grades K-1, but the game can be adapted for any grade.

http://www.owu.edu/~mggrote/pp/child_lit/f_child_lit.html
This site is part of Project Primary, whose goal is to integrate the sciences into elementary schools through the hands-on teaching of science. This page is their children's literature page. It offers mini-lesson ideas to use to teach non-fiction books, a list of exemplary childrens non-fiction books, and several other resources of note.