Resources

Media Literacy
Growing Up in a Brave New World: Digital Literacy Web Resources

The Darien Library has a fabulous Early Literacy iPad program and lots of information about digital and media literacy.

Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop focuses on the new challenges children face today, asking the 21st century equivalent of her original question, "How can emerging media help children learn?"

National Association for Media Literacy Education
The National Association for Media Literacy Education is a national membership organization dedicated to media literacy as a basic life skill for the 21st century.



Other Review Sources
ALSC Blog
The official blog of the Association of Library Services to Children.  This link will take you to all posts that are tagged eReader/eBook.

Common Sense Media
Reviews and ratings for family movies, tv shows, websites, video games, books and music.  This link will take you to their app reviews.

Kirkus Reviews
The world's toughest book critics now critique apps/eBooks for the iPad!  This link will take you to their iPad reviews.

Parents' Choice
Children's media and toy reviews.  This link will take you to their mobile apps reviews.

Touch and Go
A guide to the best apps and enhanced books for children and teens.  This link will take you to all their posts tagged Preschool - grade 4.



Awesome eBook Publishers
Atomic Antelope
Alice for the iPad, Alice in New York

Trilogy Studios
Harold and the Purple Crayon

Flying Word
Twinkle Twinkle



Free eBooks

Check your library's website for these (in fact, accessing them will be much easier through your library's website than through clicking on the links here):

BookFlix: This is Scholastic's whack at eBooks.  Sometimes takes a very long time to load, but books can be viewed online or downloaded for later.

TumbleBooks: A good Canadian provider of eBooks whose accents make me nostalgic for the cold but polite trappings of the great white north.  A lot of Robert Munsch's stuff is here, but most of the content has to be viewed online.

Overdrive:  Children's books are limited here and are often geared towards older kids and not the ankle biters we love here at LittleeLit.  You also have to download the Overdrive Media Console and Adobe Digital Editions to get to the good stuff.