Category: Children Publisher: Clear as Crystal
Type: Fiction
Pages: 116
Copyright: 2016
Price: $6.50 (eBook)
Steve's Web - Operation: Stay Safe Online is a collection of short stories with an online safety theme
Steve's Web is a collection of short stories for children with a strong Internet Safety theme. Steve is looking forward to telling you about the time his online gaming account was hacked, how he convinced his English class that Martians had landed and how a virtual monster put him in hospital! This special first edition also contains a bonus story from another book in the series, Lucy's Web, in which Steve's friend Lucy relates her online adventures.
About the Author: Charles Conway is an Internet Safety trainer working with schools, parents, foster carers and childcare professionals to help them keep themselves and their families safe online.
Note to Parents. Steve's stories will introduce your children to Internet Safety messages in a safe, non-threatening, age-appropriate way. The author recommends that you may want to read this stories with your children to stimulate discussions about similar situations in which your children, or their friends, may have found themselves.
Excerpt
Hi! I’m Steve. You might already know me if you’ve read my friend Lucy’s book. It’s great, and it’s called Lucy’s Web. You might notice a slight similarity in my title. That’s because Lucy had the idea of writing a book about all the things she’s been up to online first, and I sort of nicked the idea and decided to write one of my own. And I sort of nicked the title because after writing all of the stories I had no idea what to call it. Lucy says that she doesn’t mind, as long as mine doesn’t sell more copies than hers!
Anway, these are my stories and I really hope you enjoy them. I’m going to tell you about hackers, and men from Mars, and virtual monsters, and about my disastrous attempts to get a girlfriend. Then I’m going to tell you about how I very nearly ended up going to prison! That was a scary bit!
Michelle (she’s my foster-carer) says that I have to tell you to make sure you read her story too. It’s the one at the end, just before the special bonus story from Lucy’s book.
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