StopTextBully is a site that focuses on bullying done by phone, chat, and email. They have specific sections that cover the different types of text bullying that happen. Then the site offers tips on getting the bully to stop, what to do if it doesn’t stop, who to talk to, and prevention techniques.
Text bullying is becoming more and more common for kids. From rude flaming on blogs to threats by email, adults in their lives need to know how to respond to this issue.

CBC Kids Games offers fun online games for kids like snowboarding, BMX biking, handball, surfing, and trampoline. They are all safe for children, so this is a great site to send kids to when they want to play games online.

Childsake — Nature and the Environment is a lovely website dedicated to children’s books on nature and the environment. The site lists over 300 books for children by topic. You can also browse new entries as well as the featured topic of the month.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Bibliography is an online bibliography of books for children. Head directly to the advanced search section where you can search by title, author, or series. Even nicer, you can specify specific genre type, nationality, age level, grade level, and how highly recommended the books are. Only after you have done one of these searches will you realize how large the bibliography is! It has been compiled by Linda Day from the University of Guelph Library who has done an incredibly detailed job.

ALA | School & Public Library Cooperative Activities is an ALSC site that demonstrates best practices in school and public library cooperation. The site offers information on existing cooperative programs, a bibliography and a collection of exemplary web sites.

Read Aloud Virginia has a great website filled with information and inspiration for parents to read aloud to their children. “It’s the most important 20 minutes of your child’s day.” Hurrah!
The site offers links to read aloud information, tips on reading aloud, and several lists of great books to read aloud.

Kidscape offers some great classic logic games online. Games include hangman, tetris, car jam, tic-tac-toe, and tile games.

Scholar’s Blog is a new blog that focuses on fantasy fiction from Tolkien to Rowling.

Game On: Games in Libraries is a blog that focuses on offering video games and programming involving video games in public libraries. Our library will begin offering programming for teens using consoles in the fall. We already circ PC games and will consider doing console games in the future after we determine which consoles are popular in our community.