Online+Storybooks

=**Interactive Story Websites**=

**[|Starfall-Learn to Read]**
Starfall is a free online program designed to help children learn to read. This site contains a series of animated interactive storybooks at beginning, intermediate, and advanced reading levels. Emergent and early reader books highlight individual letters, vowel sounds, and letter combinations. If a reader does not recognize a word in the text, he or she can place the cursor on it and receive visual and voice assistance. As the reading level increases, so do the reading choices, including a variety of myths, fables, plays, fiction, and nonfiction texts.

**[|International Children's Digital Library]** (no audio)
The free International Children’s Digital Library Web site offers a wide spectrum of children’s books. Hundreds of books are available in more than 44 languages. Students are invited to share reviews of the books they have read, which encourages writing within the online reading experience.

**[|Clifford's Interactive Storybooks]**
Phonics fun for early readers

**[|Grimm Fairy Tales]**
Folk and fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Read and hear interactive, narrated, animated stories.

===**[|BBC - The Little Animals Activity Centre]**=== The Little Animals Activity Centre is a fun way for 4-8 year olds to learn and play at home.

**[|Tiger Aki Animated Storybooks and Games]**
=**Sit and Listen Story Websites**=

**[|Light Up Your Brain and Sound Stories]**
The Light Up Your Brain and Sound Stories Web sites offer downloadable audio versions of popular fairy tales and storybooks. Available as MP3 files, these stories can be enjoyed in the classroom listening center, car, or family room. A wide variety of titles, including such classics as //Peter Rabbit, Rapunzel,// and //The Emperor’s New Clothes,// make these sites a no-cost alternative to books on tape.

**[|Book Pals Storyline Online]**
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation offers an online streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud.

**[|Book Pop]**

 * [|Jay Jay]**

**[|RIF Reading Planet]**
Web site includes animated stories, books lists, author/illustrator Q & A's, and a virtual bookshelf for students to log books they've read. (Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., is the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit children's literacy organization.)

**[|StoryPlace: The Children's Digital Library]**
=**Storybook Websites Without Audio**=

[|Beantime Stories]
For preschool and primary listeners and readers.

**[|Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project]**
one of the largest collection of illustrated antique books online