"Tumblebooks" are a group of REALLY HARD books made especially for REALLY clumsy people. You know those people who leave the book on top of the car and then drive off?
No...not really...
"Tumblebooks" are a collection of books specifically about gymnastics and really bad "Pairs" figure-skaters.
Okay...I'll stop...don't leave...I'll tell you the real story. I warn you, it's a complicated topic...but it's worth putting up with the rambling of a library clerk who is working the evening shift in the dead of winter.
Our library offers a range of new e-Resources that you can access from our www.mycallander.ca/library/e-resources web page. Although most e-Resources on this page can only be accessed from within the library, you can access the online databases known as the Tumblebook Library from your home computer.
Are you with me, so far?
On our e-Resources page, you'll see the headings called TumbleBookLibrary Collection, Tumble Talking Books and TumbleReadables.
TumbleBookLibrary Collection is an online collection of TumbleBooks - animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. Read more about them here.
TumbleBooks are awesome, exciting, high interest materials with skillbuilding exercises. There are great puzzles and games available to enhance much of the reading experience, so that kids won't even know that they are learning. The kids will love them and not even know that they are making their parents happy and their teacher's job easier.
And get this...there is a Language Learning option that offers books in five languages other than English.
Tumble Talking Books is a library of high-quality, streaming audio books that you can play right from your browser.
TumbleReadables is an online collection of read-along titles which features adjustable online text and complete audio narration. Sentences are highlighted as they are being read. The collection features chapter books, early readers, YA/Teen Novels, high interest/low level books plus classics.
Go ahead...
(are you ready for it? I've been saving this and here it comes...)
TAKE A TUMBLE!
