About AnimalWorld Kids

Our mission

Children love animals. AnimalWorld Kids turns that love into learning: every animal has its own page with pictures, its sound, easy facts and a map of where it lives, and every game teaches something true about the animal world.

We built the site so that a three-year-old who cannot read yet and a ten-year-old who wants hard questions can both enjoy it. Pictures and colours guide the youngest children, a "Read it to me" button reads every text aloud, and every game has an easy, a medium and a hard level.

What you will find

• Animal pages with quick facts, fun facts, a world map, the animal's food chain, photos and videos.
• A sound library where children tap to hear each animal.
• 13 learning games: Guess the Sound, Animal Quiz, Memory Match, Who Am I?, Habitat Match, Food Chain, Shadow Match, Odd One Out, Sort It!, Bigger or Smaller, Where in the World, Spell the Animal and Animal Puzzle.
• My Zoo, where children collect points, badges and favourite animals.
• A corner for parents and teachers, with articles, free worksheets and answers to common questions.

Facts you can trust

Every fact on the site comes with its source: zoos, natural history museums, scientific databases and conservation organisations such as the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, the Smithsonian's National Zoo, Animal Diversity Web, National Geographic and the IUCN Red List. Each fact is written as a draft, checked against its source and approved by a reviewer before it appears. If you spot a mistake, please tell us and we will correct it.

Ten languages

AnimalWorld Kids speaks English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Indonesian, Chinese and Hindi. Arabic texts are written in Modern Standard Arabic, with vowel marks on animal names and short facts so young readers can sound the words out.

Safe by design

There are no chats, no comments and no public profiles, and children never need an account. We collect as little as possible and never sell personal information. Read more on our safety page.

How the site is paid for

AnimalWorld Kids is free. It is paid for by a small number of child-safe advertisements: every ad request is tagged as being for children, so the ads are chosen by the page's subject, never by what a visitor has done before. Games and quizzes never show ads.

Contact

We love hearing from families and teachers. Write to us through the contact form or at [email protected].