Best of the Web: Children's Resources

Official website of the International Paralympic Committee.

Resources for identifying and assisting children with learning disabilities from schwablearning.org.

A directory of web sites for parents of children with disabilities.

Amelia Bedelia, Amelia Bedelia Helps Out, Come Back, Amelia Bedelia, Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping, Dinosaur Time...

A Single Shard, When My Name was Keoko, Seesaw Girl, The Kite Fighters,The Firekeeper's Son...

Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob have I loved, Lyddie, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Park's Quest, The Same Stuff as Stars, The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks, Marvin One Too Many, Marvin's best Christmas Present Ever...

Discover the "power of patterns" in these online drawing games from the Brooklyn Children's Museum.

Takes you to your favorite shows: Arthur, Barney, Clifford, Teletubbies and more.

Be the president for a day!

Soup, Soup 1776, Soup's drum, Soup for President, Soup in love, A Day No Pigs Would Die...

The online counterpart to the illustrious Mid-Manhattan Librarys Picture Collection, this resource is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. Browse under the subject New York City

Watch video clips of interviews with the Pinkneys.

Includes background information on each President and First Lady, election results, cabinet members, and links to historical documents, including inaugural addresses.

Reading aloud to your child is a priceless family ritual that can offer solace, strength, and joy as well as bring balance to your family's hectic life. A child is never too young for a shared story.

What are some of the differences between a parliamentary and constitutional government? Presented by Scholastic.

Prevent Child Abuse New York is the only statewide, nonprofit organization in New York dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect.

The latest games and news about sports in New York City's public schools.

I Did it with My Hatchet: A Story of George Washington, James Madison & Dolley Madison and Their Times, Once Upon a Time!: A Story of the Brothers Grimm Quick, Annie, Give Me a Catchy line!: A Story of Samuel F.B. Morse...

A companion site to the television program on WNET, channel 13.

Good Night, Gorilla, Officer Buckle and Gloria, 10 Minutes till bedtime, The Day the Babies Crawled Away...

How many Reading Rainbow books have you read?

Your favorite authors and books from the Internet Public Library.

Presented by Scholastic.

An independent, not-for-profit organization, RCSN provides information and referral, case management and support, individual and systemic advocacy, parent and professional training, library and information services to NYC parents and caregivers of children with disabilities and special needs and to the professionals who work with them.

Learn everything that goes on behind the design and operation of robots, in this wonderful online exhibit.

The "Mr. Putter and Tabby" books, the "Henry and Mudge" books, the "Poppleton" books, the "High-Rise Private Eyes" books, Missing May, A Fine White Dust...

Holes, the "Marvin Redpost" books, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School, There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom...

The official website for the games.

Sukey and the Mermaid, Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales, The Faithful Friend, The talking Eggs: A Folktale From the American South, Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella, The Hired Hand: an African-American Folktale, N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims...

From geodesic gumdrops to very tiny lightning: science experiments to do at home.

Learn about the scientific method, browse project ideas, ask an expert, and read some tips and tricks for creating the final display. From the Internet Public Library.

Listen to an audio clip of an interview with Jon Scieszka

Presented for a work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher and set in the New World.

Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Little Bear, Chicken Soup With Rice, Nutcracker, No Fighting, No Biting!, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, Pierre, The Sign on Rosie's Door...

The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax, Horton Hatches the Egg, And To Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Hop on Pop, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins...

No, David!, David Goes to School, David Gets in Trouble, Duck on a Bike, The Rain Came Down, A Bad Case of Stripes...

The "Nate the Great" books, Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport, Maggie Marmelstein for President, Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein...

Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, The Giving Tree, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?...