The Atlantic County Library System recently added TumbleBookLibrary to its online resources. TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of about 550 animated, interactive electronic books which help teach children the joy of reading.

The collection of titles includes storybooks, read-alongs, non-fiction, iPad-compatible books, language learning books in French and Spanish, and videos from National Geographic. Each book has puzzles and games to help reinforce the concepts from the book. The TumbleBookLibrary provides enrichment to students who are reading independently and provides support to students who require skill building.

TumbleBooks can be viewed on a PC, MAC or iPad. In automatic mode, the pages turn by themselves and in manual mode, users turn the pages at their own speed. In both modes, most of the books allow the sound to be turned off so that users can practice reading aloud or to themselves. Users may stop the story at any time to review unfamiliar words or to go back to a previous page.

TumbleBookLibrary may be accessed by currently registered library users from the Atlantic County Library System’s Homework Help page, where many databases and websites of particular interest to students can be found. To try TumbleBookLibrary, go to http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp.