Songs for Kids

The Future Stinks - 596 KB
"When I was a kid my daddy once said to me, 'When you are grown, oh the things you will see.'"

Go to Bed - 1,447 KB
"Now it's time to go to bed. What else is there to do?"

Bubble Bath - 1,565 KB
"I love bubbles. I love bathtime."

Cleanup - 2,871 KB
"I love to color and I love to play"

Cowboy Robot Blues - 2,658 KB
"I had a job way out west..."

Are We There Yet? - 1,659 KB
"License plate bingo, it's a quarter to three"

The Pooping Song - 4,940 KB
"Pooping. Everybody's pooping."

All Songs

Games for Kids

Ant Hill!
Help the ants dig for gold!

Ant Hill Music!
Make music while helping the ants dig for gold!

Icebreaker
Race through the icebergs!

Icebreaker II
Capture the Renegade!

Icebreaker III
Capture the Renegade Again!

New! Piano Wizard online piano game!

All Games

Cartoons for Kids

Video
Paul and Mark try to pick a video to watch

Wallet
Mark sarches for his lost wallet

Underwear
Paul and Robert talk about clothes

R2C4
Mark meets a new robot friend

Interactive Storytelling for Children

Books for Kids

childrens literature, emphsizing books that promote child development

The categories correspond to a range of children's ages.

For younger ages, the higher number is the average age of child who would enjoy reading the book, while the lower number is the age of the child who would enjoy listening to the book being read.

Reading level is different for every child, so the numbers given for each category may be above or below your child's level.

Book recommendations for 3 to 5 year olds

Pre-school

Eric Carle

• The Very Lonely Firefly - 1994
• The Very Quiet Cricket - 1990
• The Very Busy Spider - 1985
• The Grouchy Ladybug - 1977
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar - 1971

  Norman Stiles

• Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum - 1974

4 to 7

The "I Can Read" Series

• The Josefina Story Quilt - 1985
• The Long Way to a New Land - 1986
• The Big Balloon Race - 1992
• The Long Way Westward - 1992
• Chang's Paper Pony - 1993
• Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express - 1996
• Dust for Dinner - 1997

  Philip D. Eastman

• Go, Dog, Go! - 1976
• Sam and the Firefly - 1972

  Dr. Seuss

• Green Eggs and Ham
• The Cat in the Hat

  Tomie de Paola

• Strega Nona: An Original Tale

  Richard Scarry

• Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day?
• Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go - 1998

  Beatrix Potter

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit

  Maurice Sendak

• In the Night Kitchen
• Where the Wild Things Are : Caldecott Medal Winner, 1964
• Chicken Soup with Rice
• Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months - 1991

  Margaret Wise Brown

• Goodnight Moon
• The Runaway Bunny - 1991

6 to 9

Books of pretend, with an element of the fantastic

Tove Jansson

• Finn Family Moomintroll

  Crocket Johnson

• Harold and the Purple Crayon

  A. A. Milne

• Winnie-the-Pooh
• The House at Pooh Corner

8 to 11

More sophisticated fantasy and moving toward realism

Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Little House in the Big Woods
• A Little House on the Prairie
• On the Banks of Plum Creek
• Farmer Boy
• By the Shores of Silver Lake
• The Long Winter
• Little Town on the Prairie

  Judy Blume

• Superfudge
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
• Blubber

  Beverly Cleary

• Henry Huggins
• Ramona's World

  Norton Juster

• The Phantom Tollbooth

  Lewis Carroll

• Alice in Wonderland
• Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

  Thomas Rockwell

• How to Eat Fried Worms

  E. L. Konigsburg

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler : Newbery Medal Winner, 1968

  Eleanor Estes

• Ginger Pye : Newbery Medal Winner, 1952

  William Pene Du Bois

• The Twenty-One Balloons : Newbery Medal Winner, 1948

  Carol Ryrie Brink

• Caddie Woodlawn : Newbery Medal Winner, 1936

  Hugh Lofting

• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle : Newbery Medal Winner, 1923

9 to 12

More social interactions, more sophisticated vocabularies

Lloyd Alexander

• The Black Cauldron
• The Book of Three
• The High King : Newbery Medal Winner, 1969

  Christopher Paul Curtis

• Bud, Not Buddy : Newbery Medal Winner, 2000

  John D. Fitzgerald

• The Great Brain

  C.S. Lewis

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Silver Chair
• The Horse and His Boy
• The Magician's Nephew
• The Last Battle

  Robert C. O'Brien

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH : Newbery Medal Winner, 1972

  Scott O'Dell

• Island of the Blue Dolphins : Newbery Medal Winner, 1961

  Katherine Paterson

• Jacob Have I Loved : Newbery Medal Winner, 1981
• Bridge to Terabithia : Newbery Medal Winner, 1978

  Lemony Snicket

• The Bad Beginning - 1999
• The Reptile Room - 1999
• The Wide Window - 2000
• The Miserable Mill - 2000
• The Austere Academy - 2000
• The Ersatz Elevator - 2001
• The Vile Village - 2001
• The Hostile Hospital - 2001

Teenage and older

Douglas Adams

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 1979
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - 1980
• Life, the Universe, and Everything - 1982
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - 1984
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - 1987
• The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul - 1988

  J. R. R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
• The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Two Towers
• The Return of the King

  Madeleine L'Engle

• A Wrinkle in Time : Newbery Medal Winner, 1963