The Mystery of the Cyber Friend | Internet Safety

Story Reads: 67,654

Watch the animated picture book for this story

Listen to the audio book

The following story deals with potentially adult themes which may be unsuited to younger readers. Please be aware of the content of the story and consider reviewing it before reading it with older children.

Let’s Chat About The Stories ~ Ideas for Talking With Kids

Digital Safety, Stranger Danger, Independent Thinking

1. Think of some ways that making an internet friend is not like making a friend in real life. Why do you think we have to be careful when making friends on the internet?

2. Can you think of some more ways to be safe on the internet?

Credits

BEDTIME STORY WRITTEN BY ZAC O’YEAH

ILLUSTRATED BY NILOUFER WADIA

Music Video: “Inspired” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), “Jerry Five” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com),”Envision” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), “Machinations” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), “Vicious” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), “Chillin Hard” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and additional music from mixkit.co

The Mystery of the Cyber Friend’ © 2018. ‘The Mystery of the Cyber Friend’ was originally published on StoryWeaver by Pratham Books. The development of this book was supported by CISCO. www.prathambooks.org Guest Editor: Mala Kumar

* THE STORY ‘THE MYSTERY OF THE CYBER FRIEND‘ WAS CREATED BY PRATHAM BOOKS AND IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS -BY-4.0 LICENSE. MINOR FORMATTING CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE ORIGINAL WORK FOR EASE OF READING ON OUR WEBSITE.