Author websites, games and fun (see also Mrs. Yousoufian's Lower School Lab site for games and fun)

Arthur games - by Marc Brown - at PBS Kids

Berenstain Bears - activities and printables

Beverly Cleary trivia games about her various characters

(Charlie and Lola) Lauren Child -and
Clarice Bean website

Clifford - by Norman Bridwell - at PBS Kids

Interactive storybooks

Comic Strips and funny pages online - linked from Internet Public Library

Curious George - by H. A. Rey - games and fun

Dav Pilkey's Extra Crunchy Websit o' Fun (grades 2-5) "Groovy Games" section with "Booger buster 2000" and "Spuer Diaper Baby" - also songs and more

Ed Emberly - author of Drummer Hoff, Green monsters - various printable activities

George Shrinks - by William Joyce - character matching game - at PBS Kids

Harry Potter - KidsRead set of games and trivia quizzes

Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban: book versus the movie quiz

Jan Brett - over 3,000 pages of free activities, coloring pages, and projects

Jim Arnosky - non fiction illustrator with coloring pages of all sorts of animals

Jokes and riddles online - AzKids.net

Knock Knock jokes

Jon Scieszka's Baloney, Henry P. includes Piksas drawing game

Junie B. Jones - who says "I am the star of this whole entire page, I tell you!" (Kindergarten - grade 3) - activities, quizzes, color pictures and games

Kevin Henkes - author of the Lilly's Plastic Purse and Lilly's Big Day and 2005 Caldecott winner for Kitten's First Full Moon - Fun & Games with coloring and recipes

Kids' Castle - from Smithsonian magazine - with games and links to fun information on animals, history, science, air and space, arts, sports and more

Last Laugh - from Owl magazine (Canadian)- brainteasers and jokes and puzzles (grades 3-7)

Laura McGee Krzvnosky author of the Zelda and Ivy books has some projects and fun

Laura Numeroff author of If you give a mouse a cookie books has kids pages

Lauren Child (Charlie and Lola) -and Clarice Bean website

Learn to read - Starfall.com - interactive reading fun starting with letters of the alphabet to other leveled reading

Library games

• Parts of a book - Quia hangman
• Parts of a book - harder - Quia hangman
• Parts of a book - hardest - Quia hangman
• Title Page - Quia hangman name the parts of a title page / bibliography

Little Critter - by Mercer Mayer - printables, movies and songs (some need Shockwave)

Margaret Palatini - author of Piggie Pie, Web Files amd see Gritch's witch crafts

Owl Magazine with Fun Stuff - Last Laugh jokes, quizzes,

Ranger Rick magazine fun and games, and animal coloring pages from Your Big Backyard

Robin Pulver - author of Axel Annie - has some fun pages

Rosemary Wells - coloring pages and bunny money

Series of Unfortunate Events quizzes

Shredderman - superheroic activities

Silly Sentence Machine from PBS Reading Rainbow (K - grade 3)

• Make your own book - printable
• PBS Kids games

Spell Check game (easy or hard) - from FunBrain.com

Susy Kline - author of the Herbie Jones and the Horrible Harry books - can you think of any more words with ANT in them?

Trivia games - quizzes on several series books - from KidsRead.co

Word games

• Dictionary - find the right word with guide words- TV411
• Droodles - a doodle riddle - click on picture for answer
• Enigma - decode daily quotations - Crickler.com
• GameGoo - several games including synomyms, alphabetical order, real or make believe
• KidsCrosswords.com - including SAT words
• Rebus puzzles- word picture puzzles - NIEHS - pull down answers
  • Plexers - word picture puzzles - answers on next page
• Rooting out Words - find the right word based on the root of the word
• Spell Check game - check the word and spell it correctly
• Spellaroo - just click on the incorrectly spelled word
• Thesaurus - match the words, alphabetical order, etc.- TV411
• Word confusion
• Vocabulary.com - Vocabulary University- reproducables and online activities
• Vocabulary games - hangman, crossword puzzles
• Visual Thesaurus - a short try only

Wacky Web Tales - from Eduplace (grades 3-6) - for fans of Mad libs - 44 fill in the blank stories

see also Mrs. Yousoufian's Lower School Lab site for games and fun