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Alice and Jerry was a basal reader educational series published and used in classrooms from the mid-1930s to the 1960s. The books sold nearly 100 million copies worldwide. This series competed at the time with the Dick and Jane educational seri
The African Storybook (ASb) is a multilingual literacy initiative that works with educators and children to publish openly licensed picture storybooks for early reading in the languages of Africa. An initiative of Saide , the ASb has an interactive website that enables users to read, create, download, translate, and adapt storybooks. [ 1 ]
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
A mother laments that her son, Laurie, is growing up as he begins attending kindergarten. She notes changes in his behavior: He does not want to wear corduroy overalls anymore, no longer waves goodbye to her, slams the door when he comes home, and speaks insolently to his father.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.
Longer stories that cannot be called novels are sometimes considered "novellas" or novelettes and, like short stories, may be collected into the more marketable form of "collections". Around the world, the modern short story is comparable to lyrics , dramas, novels and essays – although examination of it as a major literary form remains ...
The book was occasionally read by host Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) on his children's television show of the same name. [3] In Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary, the title character starts kindergarten with an inexperienced teacher, Miss Binney, who reads Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel to the class.
Founded in 2002, Bookshare is an online library of computer-read audiobooks in accessible formats for people with print disabilities. Founded in 2005, LibriVox is also an online library of downloadable audiobooks and a free non for profit organisation developed by Hugh McGuire. It has public domain audiobooks in several languages.