Online Databases for Young People

International Children's Digital Library

The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community – children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online.

National Geographic Kids

National Geographic’s latest site is aimed at young kids and tweens. National Geographic Kids has games, experiments, and videos in addition to articles. There’s also a My Page feature, which lets users design the background with images from around the site and store articles and encourages sharing.

Ziptales

Ziptales is a publisher of digital resources, with a product range principally focused on literacy, primary education, games and edutainment. The e-learning content is delivered via the Ziptales state of the art website. The main product consists of a reading library of 124 stories in eleven different genre categories. Each story comes with two interactive comprehension tasks, classroom worksheets and dramatised readings. Ziptales was originally developed for the education market, and still meets a wide range of curriculum needs, but also caters for public libraries and home users. Although Ziptales was developed in Australia, it is not 'Australian' in nature. It is a generic literacy product and most stories and other reading material on the site are universal in language and content features.

TumbleBook

Introduce young children to the joys of reading with this delightful collection of animated, talking picture books. This subscription service has been provided through Better Beginnings supporting families in sharing a love of reading.