HomeALSC Announces Exceptional Web Sites for Children

Laura Schulte-Cooper
ALSC Program Officer
312-280-2165
lschulte@ala.org

For Immediate Release
December 28, 2006

ALSC Announces Exceptional Web Sites for Children

(Chicago) The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, is pleased to announce the Web sites added in 2006 to Great Web Sites for Kids (www.ala.org/greatsites), its Web resource containing hundreds of links to commendable Web sites for children.

Great Web Sites for Kids (GWS) features links to valuable Web sites of interest to children, organized by subject headings such as animals; literature and languages; sciences; the arts; and history and biography. The Great Web Sites for Kids Committee maintains and updates the site.

"Each year, GWS Committee members review close to five hundred Web sites for children aged birth to 14, in search of sites that are outstanding in content and conception," said Maren Ostergard, co-chair of the GWS Committee and an early literacy/outreach librarian at King County (Wa.) Library System. "To make the cut and appear on the Great Web sites for Kids, a site must be of especially commendable quality, and reflect and encourage young people’s interests in exemplary ways."

ALSC’s GWS Committee voted to add the following sites in 2006:

• 4Kids.org – http://4kids.org/
  
  
• The Adventures of Herman: Autobiography of Squirmin’ Herman the Worm – www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/index.html
  
  
• Akhlah: The Jewish Children’s Learning Network – www.akhlah.com/
  
  
• American Folklore – www.americanfolklore.net
  
  
• Animal Corner! – www.animalcorner.co.uk
  
  
• Artenautas – http://artenautas.conaculta.gob.mx/
  
  
• Backyard Nature – www.backyardnature.net
  
  
• Birth to Six – www.multcolib.org/birthtosix/index.html
  
  
• Born Learning – www.bornlearning.org
  
  
• Brain Teasers – www.eduplace.com/math/brain/
  
  
• Celebrate Hispanic Heritage! – http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/index.htm
  
  
• CivilWar@Smithsonian- http://civilwar.si.edu/home.html
  
  
• Daily Sudoku – www.dailysudoku.com/sudoku/index.shtml
  
  
• Dinosphere – www.childrensmuseum.org/dinosphere/index.html
  
  
• DSO Kids: Dallas Symphony Kids – www.dsokids.com/2001/rooms/musicroom.asp
  
  
• EPA Environmental Kids Club – www.epa.gov/kids
  
  
• A Europe of Tales – www.europeoftales.net/
  
  
• Get Ready to Read – www.getreadytoread.org
  
  
• GoCityKids – www.gocitykids.com
  
  
• Highlightskids.com – www.highlightskids.com
  
  
• Info USA – http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs.htm
  
  
• Inventive Kids! – www.inventivekids.com/indexFlash.html
  
  
• Junie B. Jones – www.randomhouse.com/kids/junieb/activities/activities.html
  
  
• KidChef.com – www.kidchef.com/cda/index.cfm
  
  
• Kidspace@ the Internet Public Library – www.ipl.org/div/kidspace
  
  
• Library of Congress Map Collections – http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
  
  
• Math is Fun – www.mathisfun.com
  
  
• A Maths Dictionary for Kids – www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
  
  
• Maze Works – http://mazeworks.com/
  
  
• Miscositas – www.columbia.edu/~ljl17/espanol.html
  
  
• National Archives & Records Administration – www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc
  
  
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives – http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/index.html
  
  
• Nickelodeon Jr. – www.nickjr.com
  
  
• No Flying, No Tights – www.noflyingnotights.com
  
  
• The Papertigers – www.papertigers.org
  
  
• PBS Kids Go! – http://pbskids.org/go/
  
  
• Ready at Five Partnership – www.readyatfive.org/index.html
  
  
• StateAnimals.com – www.stateanimals.com/
  
  
• Storyplace en Español – www.storyplace.org/sp/storyplace.asp
  
  
• Teenspace@ the Internet Public Library – www.ipl.org/div/teen/
  
  
• Time for Kids – www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
  
  
• Toymaker.com – www.toymaker.com
  
  
• Yahooligans! – www.yahooligans.com
  
  
• Zero to Three’s Brain Wonder – www.zerotothree.org/brainwonders/EarlyLiteracy.html

Complete selection criteria can be found at www.ala.org/greatsites, click on "Selection Criteria" on the left-hand navigation menu.

For more information on GWS, please visit www.ala.org/greatsites.