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TumbleBooks

The TumbleBook Library is an online collection of animated, talking picture books that you can read or have read to you. A subscription to the TumbleBook Library includes not only unlimited remote access to the content of the books themselves, but reading comprehension quizzes, educational games and teacher resources.

In addition to lots of great eBook content for the K-6 sector, TumbleBooks also offers Children's TumbleReadables.

TumbleReadables(tm) are chapter books, YA novels and classic children's tales that can be read online. Using the TumblePad and its innovative font- size slider, each reader can control the size of the text, permitting large text reading up to 34 points, making the text readable for readers of all ages, the visually impaired, and those learning English as a second language.

The collection includes:

• Classics like War and Peace, David Copperfield, Robinson Crusoe, and the plays of W. Shakespeare
• Fiction like The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Sophies Choice by William Styron, and Cat's Cradleby Kurt Vonnegut,
• Non-fiction titles such as Winson Churchill's Their Finest Hour

Features

• TumbleBooks allows co-branding by the library.
• TumbleBooks will provide you with a Username and Password, and a referring URL. An animated banner can be placed on your website.
• Unlimited remote access.
• Includes the TumbleAdmin section, where librarians can view usage statistics and update institutional accounts.
• Includes access to the content of the books themselves, but reading comprehension quizzes, educational games and teacher resources.
• Offers a language drop down menu that allows you to view the entire web site in Spanish. Instruction, news and descriptions of books are all in Spanish. Perfect for ESL, Bilingual, and Spanish programs.
• New Record-a-TumbleBook feature.
• Reading Comprehension Quizzes.
• 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.
• Can be experienced in either automatic or manual mode. In automatic mode the pages turn by themselves and are narrated while in manual, the narration is turned off and children turn the pages at their own speed.