Website #8

International National Children's Library is a website that provides digital books online free of charge.  The ICDL Foundation strives to have books that represent every culture and language.  There are several ways to locate a book.  First you need to pick the language in which you want to read.  Next you pick the age group.  You can choose books from many different categories.  A few of the categories include Make Believe, True books, Award Winning Books, and Fairy Tales.  Books are available from picture books all the way up to chapter books.  You can also choose a book by the color of the cover which would be helpful if you could not remember the title of a specific book.  Once you have selected the book title, you click on the title or image and begin reading.  Some of the books are available in many languages which help the reader from Germany to read a book that was originally written Italian, for example.  This website would be beneficial to enhance a multicultural lesson by giving children a look into another culture through reading.  It also provides another avenue for children to read books without purchasing them.   
  


http://en.childrenslibrary.org/