Recommended Web Sites for Children

Great Web Sites for Kids (GWS) features links to beneficial Web sites of interest to children, organized by subject headings such as animals; literature and languages; sciences; the arts; and reference desk. There is also a special section with sites of interest to parents, caregivers and teachers, plus an area devoted to sites in Spanish. The ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids Committee maintains and updates the site.

Here are the newly added sites:
Activity TV – www.activitytv.com
Animal Fact Guide – www.animalfactguide.com
BaseballRox – www.baseballrox.com
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art – www.carlemuseum.org
Chemicool – www.chemicool.com
Dawn – http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnKids/index.asp
Mem Fox: Teaching, Learning, Living – www.memfox.com
Kevin Henkes – www.kevinhenkes.com
Horizon Magic Porthole – www.magicporthole.org
KidsClick! Web search for kids by librarians – www.kidsclick.org
Maisy’s Fun Club – www.maisyfunclub.com
School Time Games – www.schooltimegames.com
Jon Scieszka Worldwide – www.jsworldwide.com
Charles R. Smith, Jr. – www.charlesrsmithjr.com
Speakaboos – www.speakaboos.com
Tate Kids – http://kids.tate.org.uk/
The Audrey Wood Clubhouse – www.audreywood.com

The complete listing of great sites with annotations and selection criteria can be found at www.ala.org/greatsites.

About Teresa Walls

Teresa Walls has served on the following ALSC committees: Membership, Managing Children's Services, Children and Technology, and the AASL/ALSC/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School/Public Library Cooperation.
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2 Responses to Recommended Web Sites for Children

  1. Sanjay Kumar Negi says:

    Dear Webmaster,

    Please review the website http://www.interestingfunfacts.com/ and if you find it useful, link it on http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2009/01/recommended-web-sites-for-children/

    Site Title: Interesting Facts
    Description: Find amazing facts & information about animals, countries and much more.
    URL: http://www.interestingfunfacts.com/

    Looking forward to a positive response from your side.

    Thanks & Regards,
    Sanjay Kumar Negi

  2. Mary Voors says:

    Thanks for writing! The Great Websites for Kids Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children welcomes your site suggestions. Please use this form to suggest a site: http://gws.ala.org/suggest-site

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