Websites for Kids and Families

Bring Your Own Family was founded on a simple premise: Cities are a great place to raise a family. Springfield, Massachusetts is my city and we invite you to make it your city.

Worcester Day of Play is a project of Edward Street Child Services.

The Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden at the Springfield Museums in Springfield.

The mission of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a nonprofit organization in Amherst, MA, is to inspire a love of art and reading through picture books.

Springfield City Library - A Brighter Future for Springfield Today

The Springfield Museums, located in the heart of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, is comprised of five world-class museums; the Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts., the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, the Springfield Science Museum, the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum and the Museum of Springfield History.

Drawing on the full breadth of intellectual resources available across Harvard University’s graduate schools and affiliated hospitals, the Center generates, translates, and applies knowledge in the service of improving life outcomes for children in the United States and throughout the world.

A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners

A place to pin products, ideas, and inspiration K-2.

Our mission is to create a smarter, stronger, healthier, and more productive America through early childhood education for disadvantaged children.

Get Ready to Read! is designed to support educators, parents, and young children in the development of early literacy skills in the years before kindergarten.

The Children's Trust Fund works to strengthen families and support parents as they raise and nurture their children.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a nonprofit that strives to improve early childhood education for children from birth through age 8 and help families through public policy and education initiatives

PBS KIDS is committed to making a positive impact on the lives of children through curriculum-based entertainment with positive role models and content designed to nurture a child’s total well-being.

Random House Kids is a hub for literature for children from toddlers to young adults.

Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.

A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade

Summer learning opportunities abound! Parents, educators, summer staffers, families…here are lots of wonderful things to do and have fun with, courtesy of ReadingRockets.org. Start with a book. Read. Talk. Explore. All summer long! Startwithabook.org

The Brain Building in Progress campaign is a public/private partnership of the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley and a growing community of early education and child care providers, academic researchers, business leaders and individuals.

The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) conducts and communicates research to support high-quality, effective early childhood education for all young children.

Brought to life by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), our Wonders of the Day® will help you find learning moments in everyday life - ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs.

ZERO TO THREE is a national nonprofit organization that provides parents, professionals and policymakers the knowledge and know-how to nurture early development.