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LIBRARY SERVICE FOR SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS

TumbleBookLibrary for children! (Login required: call 217-785-9038 for help) Animated, audiobooks for children! Click on this link to download the free Flash player you will need to view and listen to the books. The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) TumblePuzzles, TumbleQuizzes and TumbleResources for Teachers. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which they have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.

TumbleReadables (Login required: call 217-785-9038 for help) TumbleReadables are a collection of large print electronic books which allows you to read books online by simply clicking a button. TumblePad Reader, with its innovative font size slider, enables the viewer to raise the font size to up to 34 point, bringing the joy of reading to young and old.

TumbleTalkingBooks! (Login required: call 217-785-9038 for help) TumbleTalkingBooks is an online, 24/7 audio book library that includes unabridged high quality audio versions of classics of American and world literature, non-fiction, fiction, and children and teen books. TumbleTalkingBooks is ideal for readers of all ages and abilities and those learning English as a second language.

Talking Book Guide for Schools

Read for a Lifetime

Rebecca Caudill Award Winners

Sources for Braille or Recorded Textbooks

TALKING AND BRAILLE BOOKS ON SPECIAL TOPICS

The Talking Book and Braille collection includes the same range of popular literature found in public libraries. Animal stories, folktales, mysteries, frontier and pioneer stories, adventure, literary classics, science fiction, biographies, award winners by many popular authors are available for loan to eligible readers.

To help you select books, bibliographies on special topics are available.

About Words and Writing

Alphabet and Counting Books

Gary Paulsen bibliography

Lewis and Clark

Poems and Rhymes

Summertime Stories

Learn more about talking and braille books on special topics at Books Stuff.