Online Kids: A Young Surfer's Guide to Cyberspace

By Preston Gralla

Book Overview

Surf's up in cyberspace So grab your (key)board and catch the computer wave with this user-friendly, jam-packed guide and activity book. This totally updated edition of Online Kids will get you wired with complete information on the coolest sites online. Where else can you go to find the latest stats for all your favorite ballplayers, e-mail the president, travel to ancient civilizations, or get help with your science homework from a real scientist? From the NASA Shuttle Web to Walt Disney World, from the World Wide Web of Sports to the National Geographic Society, Online Kids tells you where it is and how to get there. It even ranks each site on a special Coolness Index You'll find step-by-step instructions for great online activities: * Make a fun-filled science museum at home. * Create an up-to-date space shuttle mission log. * Put together a personalized birthday photo collage. * Design your own Web page. * And much, much more . . . Online Kids is also packed with expert advice on choosing the right online service, navigating the World Wide Web, sending e-mail, and keeping safe online.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047125312X
• ISBN13: 9780471253129
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.6" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 9

Customer Reviews

Great BOOK!

I like this book because it told me a lot about computers!

Great for parents/kids to get started, find great sites

I'm a parent and a grandmother, and this book helped me show my 7 year old granddaughter some really fun and interesting sites on the World Wide Web. The other thing it did was to explain a few things I didn't know, like the difference between the Internet and online services, and some basic information for the totally clueless on how to get started on setting up a computer at home. We found the site where you can look at the earth in crescent from a satellite, zoom in on any place in the world (that's not in the dark) and be amazed. She loved looking in Antarctica, and at the Nile...and then finding games to play, and the fact that she could type in the letters herself and get around. Non readers need help on what each site means, but this book is one more tool to let a child see the VALUE of reading (what site do I want?), find places to learn, and get proficient with typing and using the Internet. It's okay to not know! Just give this book to someone who WANTS to know how to break into Cyberspace, and watch them soar, like my granddaughter has! PS If you don't want to invest in a computer until you know what it's all about, go to a public library and look up some of these sites for yourself with or without your child, and see for yourself what it's all about. I have the 1999 edition, and hope he puts out a new one soon...be wary of the first edition in 1996 as it will be outdated.

A very useful book!

I've always had trouble finding the right place to go to on the net. When I got this book, I tried out all the fun places to go to (well, not all) and then suddenly I made a lot of favourite web sites. Although the book didn't cover all the best places, the sites Gralla recommended had a lot of links to other sites. So far, the only problem was that some of the sites that looked interesting was available only on America Online or Prodigy, which was why i rated this book a 9. D23H