Kids and Families

Kid-Friendly Search Engines*

*These sites provide filtered search engine access to the world wide web, or are guides created by librarians and educators of reviewed sites with kid-appropriate content. Madison Public Library can not guarantee the effectiveness of any search engine.

Web Resources for Parents and Children

see also our recommended web sites for kids and our For Parents and Teachers section

Developed by librarians from the Ramapo Catskill Library System in New York state.

A kid-friendly version of the popular Yahoo subject directory.

Sites for preschoolers, school aged children, and teens from the Internet Public Library.

The sites on this page are selected by librarians in areas of interest to kids, including sites for parents and teachers.

Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents & Kids
A basic guides to the Web and the Internet for families by the American Library Association.

Internet Public Library Youth Division
Resources from the Internet Public Library on a variety of topics of interest to kids