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Anyone back after last week's rant? Well, as promised, this week's article will be about bedtime stories on the web. Bedtime stories are a bit of an artificial construction because I don't think there is anything that restricts a story to only being read at bedtime. Anyway, bedtime is a really good time to read to your kids; they tend to be settled, maybe a bit tired and possibly more receptive. The sites I'm going to look at this week are really sites with stories suitable for small (and not so small) children to read.
The first site
Whimsical bedtime stories for children of all ages has quite an extensive selection of stories with short plot synopses that you can review before you read the full story.
Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland is a site with the text of the Lewis
Carroll classic.
Tristan on Safari is a story about an African safari illustrated with some
beautiful old watercolour paintings. The story and pictures are available for downloading and printing to make it easier to use at bedtime.
Even if a story doesn't say it's available for downloading don't forget that most browsers will allow you to save the text of the page you are viewing if you click on file and then save as. Just supply a filename and on your disk it stays. This feature usually doesn't work
if the page you are viewing uses frames. Just remember that when you save a page the pictures don't get saved unless you explicitly save them. With my browser you can do this by right-clicking on the picture and supplying a filename. Enough technical mumbo-jumbo time for some more
links. Jay Jay the Jet
Plane is another web story with good pictures and if you really like it you can order the video tape of the story on the web site. Houlton Miffen's web site has something a little different, Wacky Web tales asks
you for parts of speech and then stick them in a story for you. This site is recommended for grade four and up because the user needs to know the difference between nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and singular and plural tenses.
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