Question 1

African Storybook

Accepted Answer

The African Storybook (https://africanstorybook.org)initiative aims to address the shortage of contextually appropriate books for early reading in the languages of Africa. Their vision is for all young African children to have enough enjoyable books to read in a familiar language to practice their reading skills and learn to love reading. Stories available in over 183 languages!

Question 2

All of Us Research Program

Accepted Answer

All of Us (https://www.joinallofus.org/?utm_source=nlm&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=nlm-national-awareness&utm_content=general#)is a research program from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is seeking one million or more people from across the U.S. By doing so, it hopes to one day help speed up medical research. People who join will share information about their health, habits, and what it’s like where they live. By looking for patterns, researchers may learn more about what affects people’s health. For more information about this historic effort to gather data, visit the Network of the National Library of Medicine's All of Us Research Program page.(https://allofus.nnlm.gov)

Question 3

DigitalLearn

Accepted Answer

The DigitalLearn (https://www.digitallearn.org/)website is now your “one-stop shop” for computer and technology training. Whether you help learners find and use online training, provide individual instruction, or need to teach a class, their growing collection of topics and tools are here to help you.

Question 4

JLG Digital

Accepted Answer

With JLG Gold Standard eBooks for Elementary, Middle School and High school students, JLG Digital (https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/jlgdigital-free?)gives you and your readers unlimited access to read books online from any device. There is no limit to the number of users and titles enter and exit the digital stream regularly, so there are always new picks available.

Question 5

LibriVox

Accepted Answer

LibriVox (https://librivox.org)volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then LibriVox releases the audio files back onto the net for free. All their audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for whatever purpose you wish.

Question 6

Trans Reads

Accepted Answer

If you’re looking for books, chapters, texts, essays, or articles by, for, or about people who transverse or transcend western gender norms, Trans Reads (https://transreads.org)is the right place!

Question 7

MagicBlox

Accepted Answer

With a large and growing collection of eBooks for kids 1 to 13 years old, your children get to enjoy new books all the time from award winning authors and publishers from around the world with MagicBlox.(https://magicblox.com) In addition to titles you are familiar with from traditional publishers, they also have the opportunity to discover new stories from authors they've never heard of, or try out new languages they've never seen.

Question 8

MedlinePlus

Accepted Answer

MedlinePlus (https://medlineplus.gov/)is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Their mission is to present high-quality, relevant health and wellness information that is trusted, easy to understand, and free of advertising, in both English and Spanish. Anywhere, anytime, on any device—for free.

Question 9

Mommy Gone Tropical

Accepted Answer

Mommy Gone Tropical i(http://facebook.com/mommygonetropical/)s a blog that spreads deaf awareness and shares importance of sign language. She posts regular ASL storytime videos on her Facebook page that are wonderful to watch, whether ASL is your native language or one you are trying to learn.

Question 10

Storyline Online

Accepted Answer

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online,(https://www.storylineonline.net) streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.

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