Looky Looky!
I just discovered this really beautiful site called LookyBook, where you can actually flip through picture books and read them in their entirety. Now, while this is fantastically fun and impressive, the book images are a bit small, and will never truly take the place of holding the book in your lap. Which is why it's so great-- you can browse the book before you decide if you want to buy it.
What does this have to do with multicultural books? Not too much, but there are quite a number of multicultural titles in their listing so far, and you can browse by geographic area. They have many books that we carry in our catalog, which is nice to see (no Shen's Books yet-- you can bet I'll be working on that).
Best of all, you can embed a bit of code to put on your own website our blog, and your readers can look through a book right there. Click on the book below, and click to "turn" the pages. How cool is that?!
What does this have to do with multicultural books? Not too much, but there are quite a number of multicultural titles in their listing so far, and you can browse by geographic area. They have many books that we carry in our catalog, which is nice to see (no Shen's Books yet-- you can bet I'll be working on that).
Best of all, you can embed a bit of code to put on your own website our blog, and your readers can look through a book right there. Click on the book below, and click to "turn" the pages. How cool is that?!
posted by Renee at 11:55 AM
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3 Comments:
Thanks for posting this! This helps those of us living overseas who don't have access to bookstores that carry English picture books. I like to browse before buying and that's not possible online (though amazon does include some inside looks at books.) I got to look inside some books that had caught my eye in catalogs.
Some of the images were big enough to read the whole book. Not sure if you want to go that route. Although most of us want to have a book to hold.
Maybe there should be paid viewing through memberships. (We pay a membership to be able to order foreign food products from a mail order seller here.) Just a thought.
Annie,
Good point! I hadn't thought of that. It's a great resource for those that can't get to a bookstore or library that easily.
Another similar site worth checking out is: http://www.biguniverse.com/; you can read hundreds of books online and also create & publish your own children's picture e-Book!
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