“There was a farmer who had a Dog and Bingo was his Name-O!” Story books like “Bingo” will engage your child into learning to read because he or she can sing along in an interactive setting and Did you know that reading to babies and young children will help them learn new sounds, words and language by developing literacy skills? Children can learn to value books and stories by sparkling their imagination and stimulating their curiosity into reading. Do you love reading yourself? Well, the Union Parish Library has a link for you to click on after you visit http://www.unionparishlibrary.com. Click on links and scroll down until you are able to click on Tumblebooks Children’s E-Book Library.
Tumblebooks Children’s E-Book Library has many story books, read alongs, E-Books, Graphic novels, non-fiction, videos, mat h stories, play lists, puzzles and games and even has books for Spanish readers. One of the books that I enjoyed reading as a child was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain. I clicked on index and found my favorite book by clicking on the letter A and scrolling down to the middle of the page to find it.
The Tumble Player also has a Play List that allows you to build a list of Tumblebooks which you can play one after another for Story Time! Tumblebooks has a button on the right side of the catalog and when you click on it, the books get added to your Tumble Player. Click on the large play button on the Tumble Player to launch the application. You can also add books to your playlist and delete them as you wish!
One of my favorite dog related movies is “Because of Winn Dixie” so I clicked on E-books and found six children’s books by Kate Di Cammilo who wrote “Because of Winn Dixie.” Tumblebooks was designed for you to be online to download an E-book. Graphic Novels include 68 books such as Nancy Drew and The Smurf’s. Those type of books read like comics from a Sunday newspaper.
I really like the Non-fiction category because it has books on Animals, History, Geography, Science, Biographies Insects and Seasons. “The House that George Built” is my favorite because it describes how the White House was built in an interactive follow-along setting.
Do you like National Geographic? There is also a video category where you can view videos based on Animals and Nature,History, Space and Technology, Biology, Geography, Earth Science and Social Studies. The videos are very good especially the Biography on Benjamin Franklin.
The site also has Math stories to teach your child how to count with lessons on Geometry and concepts about solving math problems. The Spanish category has numerous books in Spanish and children can also play Puzzles, Word Catch, Memory Game, Match the Sentence, Spelling, Crossword and Word Search games. Those type of games are good for when the children are out of school for the holiday’s or summer! In order to play the game, you have to make sure that Adobe Acrobat Reader is downloaded to your computer.
The best thing about Tumblebooks is that it can get a parent interested in reading to their child. You do not have to pay fees to use Tumblebooks because the Union Parish Library provides it so you can download an E-book for you to read to your child or they can read it all by themselves. There are two different links for Tumblebooks: Tumblebooks Children’s E-book Library and Tumblebooks Tween and Teens E-book. Both are very similar, but I highly recommend Tumblebooks for children because it will help them read more as teenagers.
There is also an app that you can download on Apple I-Tunes and Google Play for Android users. Technology has gone a long way since Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain wrote “Huckleberry Finn” and doing word searches on paper and continues to do so thanks to http://www.tumblebooklibrary.com.
The Union Parish Library is providing this service for patrons who have children so they can read to them at night before bed and all you have to do is click on a book of your choice by using the index. Tumblebooks should be a must for parents who want to improve their child’s literacy skills and most of all sharing the joy of reading with a loved one!
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