Online Reading for Children
International Children's Digital Library: http://www.icblbooks.org
This will eventually be a
digital library of 10,000 children's books drawn from 100 cultures as part of a program that uses technology to help young readers.
Bedtime-Story.com: http://www.bedtime-story.com/bedtime-story/indexmain.htm
Whimsical bedtime stories, story-enhanced portfolios of the world's best
illustrators of children's books, includes both classic stories and modern
ones, new stories added daily.
The University of Pennsylvania Online Books:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/new.html
This site has tons of books for everyone - reference books, children's books,
and more, and with more being added daily. Check out Jack the Giant Killer:
http://www.belinus.co.uk/fairytales/FaerypiecesJackGiant.htm
Magic Pencil - Children's Book Illustration: http://portico.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/magicpencil/home.html
An exhibit from the British Library. The site describes itself as, "Magic
Pencil Childrens Book Illustration Today is a display of
more than 300 paintings and drawings for children by Britains starriest
illustrators. It examines how and why they work. It also shows that the
strong tradition of British children's book illustration is actively flourishing
in the 21st century." Overall the site is well designed and really
neat.
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