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The
Books for Kids Foundation promotes literacy among all children
with special
emphasis on disadvantaged children and youth. Books for Kids: |
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Our Century List of the top 100 Children's Books is now available.
Our ever-growing list of fun websites:
| General (games & fun) | |
| Books and Reading | |
| Kids Around the World |
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All
sites are personally checked out by our websleuths for kid-friendliness.
If you find anything offensive on any of these links, or if you want
to recommend any good sites, please
let us know.
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GENERAL (Games & fun)
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Visit
Arthur and friends at www.pbskids.org,
which is also the home of the Reading
Rainbow
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| Billy Bear's Playground | ..lots of matching and guessing games, mazes, and stories which require input from you to complete the ending. All pages emphasize oral and visual development. |
| The Knowledge Adventure | features
a Kids Area with grade appropriate activities such as:- connect the dots,
coloring pages, puzzles, an encyclopedia, and a dinosaur center with various
projects. |
| Schoolmenu.com | features nutritional information and fun-food games, mazes and puzzles. |
Thanks to
our friend Stephen Pappalardo of Connecticut for the following game site recommendations:-
| Microsoft Internet Gaming Zone | Has card, board and games that you buy in the store, that are multiplayer-compatible. They require that you download zone software, but the site is great for meeting other gamers and competing in many games. |
| Yahoo! Games | Like the Zone (above), great for meeting other gamers, but you don't need to download anything. It has many card and board games available. |
| The Kids on the Web | Is
a major list of sites for and about kids: links, penpals and resources.
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BOOKS
AND READING
| Harper Childrens |
This website features Books, Games and follow along with Aliki the Kitten in How a Book is Made. |
| Kids' Clubhouse | The Kids' Clubhouse at Houghton-Mifflin has many activities, including an online reading discussion group called The Reading Dimension. |
The Hewlett Packard Digital Book Club |
The Hewlett Packard Digital Book Club is designed to encourage young people ages 8-18 to read and write. Features links to reading and writing sites; classic books; templates to create bookmarks and bookplates; literature lists, writing contests and tips. |
| On-Lion for Kids | New York Public Library's On-Lion for Kids features Arts and Games, Authors Books and Characters, Events for Children and a Teen Link. Look for The Adventures of the Real Winnie the Pooh, who lives with his friends in the Central Childrens' Room at the NYPL's Donnell Library Center. |
| Writes of Passage | Writes of Passage is a literary journal for teenagers with poems and essays by peers; writing tips from authors, and links to classic literature such as Lewis Carroll and Oscar Wilde. |
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The
Children's Literatue Web Guide has links to many authors, illustrators
and student fan pages.
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KIDS
AROUND THE WORLD
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Australia: |
These school kids from Down Under have produced a truly great website: listen to a kookaburra laugh, color in a rainbow lorikeet (a parrot), make a kite or a hopping kangaroo. | |
| The Easter Island is the Pacific Island with the enormous stone heads scattered around. All about the island, the statues, the Rapanui people and their culture in photos, maps, music and even how to get there. | ||
| Japan: | Kids Web Japan introduces you to life in Japan through a series of fun activities. | |
| Stamps from South Pole Antarctic philately along with some history of the frozen continent. | ||
| United States: | The Global Classroom is based in a school in Delmar, a town on the Delaware - Maryland border. The town claims that it is too big for only one state. That's why the schoolkids enjoy online contact with kids all over the world. | |
| Worldwide: | Kid link aims to get children between the ages of 10 to 15 to become involved in a global dialog. Since 1990 over 110,000 kids from 119 countries on all continents have participated in their activities, including the yearly KIDS-nn projects. | |
| Kids' Space is an international meeting place for kids under 16. Learn about different cultures, countries and lifestyles as you meet penpals, share stories, artwork and music with other kids. |
OTHER WORLDS
| NASA's KidSpace Page | NASA's KidSpace page includes games; puzzles, coloring pages and an art gallery. Find out your weight and age on Mars, Jupiter or any of the other planets. |
| National Space Science Data Center | NASA's National Space Science Data Center has a huge photo gallery of all the planets and many comets and galaxies. |
| Astronomy Picture Of The Day | Take a look at their often strange, often beautiful, always fascinating. |
| Mars | Want to go to Mars sometime soon? Here's how. |
| Russ' Dinosaur Lair | Dinosaurs!! The Earth itself was once a very different world.Visit for one of the most complete collections of dinosaur links, including dinosaur art; images, current digs and paleontology articles. |
| Barry's Carnivorous Plants | From the Plant World Barry's Carnivorous Plants for an up-close look at some Beautiful Bug-Eating Botany. |
VOYAGES
OF DISCOVERY
| The Mary Rose | Henry VIII's favorite warship, sank in 1545, but was raised in 1982 and is now on display in Portsmouth England. |
| Kids' Page | In the Kids' Page, the ship's rats will guide you through every aspect of life aboard this 16th century warship. |
| Roadside America | Roadside America is a fascinating multimedia voyage of discovery within the USA: a tour of all those giant cows and quirky rock collections you see alongside the nation's highways. Many photos, maps and route descriptions. |
| Route 66 | Similar to Roadside America, check out the famous Route 66 website, which for some reason is run by a group of Belgians! |
| Old Sturbridge Village | Old Sturbridge Village is a recreated 1830's rural Massachusetts town, made up of original buildings brought in and restored from a wide area. Characters like the banker and school teacher wander around the village, reenacting events and answering questions. Look for the Village Kids Club for children ages 8 - 12. |
CHILDRENS' MUSEUMS
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Links to childrens' museums |
Links to childrens' museums around the world. The most exciting museums are listed at the beginning. The others may not be as spectacular, but are still well worth a look. |
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