Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Tumblebooks For Kids!


TumbleBooks Available To Lancaster County Children!

TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks , animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.

The TumbleBook Library collection is accessed on-line from computers in the library with Internet connection, or from home through a direct link on the library website.

The TumbleBook Library is a collection of licensed titles from children's book publishers such as Scholastic, Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Charlesbridge Press, Harcourt, Little Brown, Walker and Company and others.

Story Books:
The TumbleBook Library has a selection of children's favorite story books. Old time favorites such as "The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munch come to life in an educational and interactive way. Other titles include, "Diary of a Worm", "Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10", "One Duck Stuck" and "Tops and Bottoms". Kids can also see their favorite fairy tales such as "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Old Mother Hubbard" come to life.

Language Learning:
The Language Learning Section comes with a growing selection of books in Spanish and French . Many are bilingual titles which allows the user to read the book in 2 languages.

Chapter Books/YA Novels:
Now older students can read the growing collection of children's classics like Black Beauty, Alice in Wonderland and Anne of Green Gables. Our TumbleReadable format, with its innovative text size slider which allows the reader to adjust to the text size which I right for them, makes reading online fun and accessible.

Audio Books:
TumbleBookLibrary includes a collection of full length, unabridged, streaming audio books. Perfect for extended story time.

TumbleBookLibrary En Espanol and TumbleBookLibrary en Francais:
Our language drop down menu now allows you to view the entire website in Spanish or French. Instruction, news and descriptions of books are all in Spanish or French. Perfect for ESL, Bilingual, and, French and Spanish programs.

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