Fun Literacy Sites

Animated eBooks and Games

Reading Planet (Reading is Fundamental) - have fun with reading and writing games and activities!

Tumblebooks (L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library) - eBooks, games and puzzles for kids, all online!

PBS Kids - for the younger crowd, lots of activities and reading games online

Story Place: The Children's Digital Library - Animated stories, reading lists and activities from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County.

Book Hive - Also from Charlotte/Mecklenburg. In the Zinger Tales section you can watch online videos of professional storytellers like Jackie Torrence, Doc McConnell, Tony Tallent, and Donna Washington telling traditional folk tales.

Clifford the Big Red Dog - through PBS Kids, you can read and listen to several Clifford stories online

CBeebies Stories and Rhymes- From the kids section of the BBC website you’ll be playing and learning with a bundle of animated characters both familiar and new.

Online Stories (non-animated)

International Children's Digital Library - The goal of ICDL is to create a digital library of more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet.

Between the Lions Online Stories (PBS Kids)

Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project - This children's online library is a volunteer-driven project featuring scanned historical children's books. Many are translated into several languages.