Resources for Librarians
Children's Literature and Good Sites for Kids
Fun Stuff For Kids

• Bonus.com: Supersite for Kids
• Build a Prairie---Can you turn a barren plain into a healthy prairie? Choose the best plants and animals to bring to your prairie restoration site. Then watch the prairie come to life in exciting animations!
• Coloring Pages! -- free printable pages on Nature, Holidays, Cars, Bible and more!
• Dav Pilkey's Web Site o' Fun--Pilkey is the author/illustrator of children's books like The Paperboy (a Caldecot winner), Captain Underpants, and When Cats Dream. Here he shares jokes, riddles, stories from his books, and the story of how he went from attention deficit disorder to class clown to "kid in the hallway" to artist and author.
• Destination: Modern Art---from the Museum of Modern Art, really fun interactive adventures. 
• Dress the Chief -- a virtual paper doll with three backgrounds and lots of accessories. You can print it out when you're done.
• Fact Monster -- the ultimate homework helper!
• Games 
• GirlPower! -- for the 9-13 year old girl, games and lots more!
• Harry Potter website -- lots of latest news and interviews and photos and more! The site has games too.
• How Everyday Things Are Made -- "an introductory website showing how various items are made. It covers over 40 different products and manufacturing processes, and includes almost 4 hours of manufacturing video." Optimized for DSL/Cable speeds or greater *Macromedia FlashPlayer plugin (6.029 or greater) required **
• Internet Public Library -- Lots of fun stuff from games to homework help and sports to music.
• Kids Games --  the outdoor, run around, neighborhood kind, like 'Capture the Flag' and 'Red Light Green Light'
• Kid Info--something for everyone here--advice for parents, games and stories for pre-schoolers, topical materials for school, and lots more.
• Kids Click--another searchable subject index from the UC Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, with 1800 choice sites whose annotations include reading level as well as content.
• Kids Corner--a nice selection of games, music, homework helpers and news for kids.
• Kid's Guide to Easy String Figures 
• Kids Report--from the producers of The Scout Report, a version for kids and by kids.
• KidSpace -- "lots of sites that are just plain fun!" from IPL
• Knots -- animated how-to-do-it for all kinds of knots!
• MegaPenny Project -- "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
• OH!Kids--part of the Ohio Public Library Information Network.
• Orisinal -- easy keyboard games with cute figures.
• OWL Kids Online-- for kids who like jokes and games and answers to questions like why is soap slippery?
• Papa-Ink -- exhibits historical collections of children's art, works by contemporary children worldwide and the childhood works of professional artists.
• Poetry  -- an excellent site! recordings of fun poems. Really cool graphics.
• Puzzle Factory -- jigsaws, sliders, memory games, coloring books and more!
• Quiz Hub -- lots of fun games with a learning edge. Requires Flash 5 Player Plug-in (download free on the site).
• Science Education Resources for Disabled Teens-- University of Washington's "Do-It" program to help disabled teens develop their math and science talents; links for adaptive technology and other aids for the disabled.
• Strange Matter -- Virtually zoom inside stuff, crush it, transform it, or improve it.
• String games  -- Cat's cradle and beyond, with illustrations and text descriptions
• Thinks -- "collection of brain games, thinking puzzles and other online recreations to keep you pleasantly entertained for many, many hours."
• ZooWeb  -- live web cams of animals and links to zoos all across the world!