Cybersurfer: The OWL Internet Guide for Kids

Kelly L. Green is the Secretary of the Ontario Federation of Teaching
Parents, the past editor of CBRA’s Children’s Literature edition,
and the past president of the Toronto & District Parent Co-operative
Preschool Corporation.

Is your child apprehensive about the Internet? Or, more to the point,
are you? This little information packet cum manual on the Internet and
the World Wide Web will have you both whizzing round your net-browsing
software in no time. Larded with “Cyber Stories” on topics ranging
from Earth Day projects to cyber criminals, the book is a breezy read
that discusses the development and nature of the Internet, and some of
its current and anticipated uses.

To use the accompanying three-and-a-half-inch diskette, you must have
Internet access (i.e., an account with an Internet server). Once the
files it contains have been inserted into your web-browsing software
(the book explains what that is), you can literally click your mouse and
make a virtual visit to Russia or NASA. You can find a scientist who is
mad about marmosets, or visit the Disney or Warner Brothers. The
possibilities are literally endless, because each site CyberSurfer takes
you to has links of its own to related sites.

Once you become adept at surfing the Net, you can use the addresses in
the “yellow pages” provided at the end of the book. These addresses
take you to the same sites as the diskette—you just type them in
yourself. The yellow pages also give a short description of each of the
hundreds of sites available on the diskette, so you can pick some that
interest you before you load the software. Highly recommended.