I chose the website, International Children's Digital Library: A Library for the World's Children. The URL is http://www.icdlbooks.org/. I found it using http://www.dogpile.com/ however the site listed there (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/kiddiglib/) redirected me to the original research page for the ICDL project. Towards the bottom of the page, I clicked a link to get to the above URL. It was a long trip, but it was worth it!
This website has children's books in various languages that children can read. Children have written reviews about the books. The most awesome thing about this site and the reason I chose it, is because of the search mechanism for children. They can choose to search books by country, picture books, recently added, award winning, and many more categories. Children can also choose by book cover color, by age of reader, by types of characters, and by length of book. All the search features are buttons with pictures so there is very little reading required although the appropriate text is under each button. If your goal is to teach in an elementary school library, you must check out this site. It really is amazing.
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