On behalf of the Great Websites for Kids Committee, I’d like to share some news and enlist your help.
If you missed our recent press release, the following are the newest sites to be added to Great Websites for Kids, the online resource featuring hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children.
- Ask a Biologist – http://askabiologist.asu.edu/
- Bug Guide – http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740
- Code Monster – http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster
- CSI: Web Adventures – http://forensics.rice.edu/
- I Was Wondering – http://iwaswondering.org/
- Middle Shelf – http://issuu.com/middleshelf/docs/
- San Diego Zoo Kids – http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/
- Smithsonian Tween Tribune – http://tweentribune.com/
We hope that you will find these and other Great Websites for Kids to be useful tools for you and your library patrons. Sites are searchable by eight main classifications (Animals, The Arts, History & Biography, Literature & Languages, Mathematics & Computers, Reference Desk, Sciences, and Social Sciences) or by keyword. The committee works hard all year to find and evaluate new sites, and to weed out previously chosen sites that haven’t maintained “great” status.
We can always use your help!
If you know of a great site that you would like to have us consider for inclusion, please submit your suggestion via this link: http://gws.ala.org/suggest-site. Similarly, if you find broken links, etc. on the site, please alert us to that as well. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Members of the 2015 Great Websites for Kids Committee:
- Lara Crews, co-chair, Forsyth County (North Carolina) Public Library
- Lisa Taylor, co-chair, Ocean County (New Jersey) Library
- Emily E. Bacon, Yorktown (Indiana) Public Library
- Ariel Cummins, New Braunfels (Texas) Public Library
- Jill Eisele, Bellwood (Illinois) Public Library
- Krishna Grady, Darien (Connecticut) Library
- Joanne Kelleher, Kings Park (New York) Central School District
- Elizabeth Saxton, Tiffin, Ohio
- Alia Shields, Cherry Hill (New Jersey) Public Library
And now … on to ALA in San Francisco!

Krys
Great resources, I’ll certainly be passing this on to colleagues who have younger grades in their library.
– Krys