Library Web Sites for Parents and Kids

(from the American Library Association, www.ala.org)

 

Association for Library Service to Children

     http://www.ala.org/alsc

Lists of award-winning books, videos and recordings, and links to other sites for parents and kids.

Internet Public Library

     http://www.ipl.org

A wide range of helpful resources for kids and adults, including an extensive reference division. The Youth Division includes book reviews "by kids for kids" and StoryHour, a collection of stories in both plain text and illustrated/audio format and more.

 Children's Pages at WombaNet

     http://www.batnet.com/wombat/children.html

A listing of links to other WWW sites of interest to both children and adults.  Categories include animals, dinosaurs, high schools, hobbies, libraries, magazines museums, news, space, toys and travel.

Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library

     http://www.imcpl.lib.in.us

Designed to appeal to young Net surfers, the site's "Kidswaves" offers "Booker's Funzone," with puzzles, games and other fun activities, "awesome" sites to surf, "cool reads" and a "Mom and Pop's Surf Shop" with extensive resources for parents on how to encourage their kids to read.

OH!Kids-WEBkids

     http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/EDUCATE/WEBKIDS

Gateway to a wealth of on-line resources, including Kid World, a fun-filled place of pictures, stories, riddles and jokes, hot web sites and more.

 

Other Library Sites to visit:

 

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

     http://www.clpgh.org/clp/Childrens/yskids/

Lake Oswego (Ore.) Public Library

     http://www.ci.oswego.or.us/library/kids1_in.htm

Miami-Dade Library System

     http://cga.mdpls.lib.fl.us/children.htm

Monroe County Public Library

     http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/childrens_dept.html

Sacramento Public Library

     http://www.sna.com/saclib/kids.htm

Shrewsbury (Mass.) Public Library

     http://www.ci.shrewsbury.ma.us/libtop.htm