Iowa's Award-Winning Bookmobile

Question 1

Storyline Online

Answer

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, 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.

Question 2

African Storybook

Answer

The African Storybook 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 3

LibriVox

Answer

LibriVox 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 4

MagicBlox

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. 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 5

Mommy Gone Tropical

Answer

Mommy Gone Tropical is 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 6

JLG Digital

Answer

With JLG Gold Standard eBooks for Elementary, Middle School and High school students, JLG Digital 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.