Story Books about Online Safety

7 Story Books to Read to your Kids about Online Safety

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Question: When should I start talking to my child about online safety?

Answer: As early as possible! And it is never too late to start engaging a child in conversations about keeping safe online.

It is difficult to start important conversations about online safety with young children. Enter the story book. There are plenty of children’s books written about cyber safety. Reading books to our children on a daily basis helps them to learn important messages that stay with them through fun characters and story lines. I bet your child could almost recite their favourite book word for word!

I know your time is precious so I have put together a list of children’s books about cyber safety for you.

Kim Maslin is an Australian Author and Educator. She has taught technologies to children from prep to Year 12 and regularly presents Digital Technologies Workshops.

The Tweeting Galah contains 4 short stories about posting inappropriate content, cyberbullying, online stranger danger and too much screen time.

The Surfing Penguin contains 4 short stories about viewing age-inappropriate online content, cyberbullying, online gaming and trolling and sharing personal information & location tracking.

Written by Holly-ann Martin (Australia), Good Pictures Bad Pictures talks to kids about pornography, why it is dangerous, how it can be addictive and strategies on how to keep safe from the dangers of pornography.

Goldilocks (a Hashtag Cautionary Tale) is about a girl who likes to post funny things online and gets more and more daring to get lots of ‘likes’. A funny little story written by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross.

The Technology Tail written by Julia Cook is a story about digital footprints.

Chicken Clicking goes shopping online for the whole farm!!

A laptop in Fairy-Tale land?! Once Upon a Time……Online has all the Fairy Tale Characters lining up to have their turn online. What will they learn about online safety?

Have a browse through the books and check out their focus topics and characters and enjoy some snuggle time with your child while you read to them and sneakily give them skills for their online life.

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