TumbleBooks: Popular Children's Books Online!

Not able to visit the library to check out books for your child? No problem. Check out our library's online TumbleBooks collection! These are interactive, online story books that your child can read anywhere using an Internet connected computer or iPad!

Some TumbleBook titles are designed to work with the iPad! To find these titles, go to "Story Books" and click on the green button called "iPad Books". Or your can use the TumbleSearch feature and type in "iPad" and hit "GO".

A Santa Clara City Library card is required to access TumbleBooks. If you don't have a library card, you can fill out the online application today. After filling that out, please visit the library within 30 days with photo identification and proof of address to receive and activate your card.

The following are just a few popular TumbleBook titles that your child can read today! New titles are added frequently.

For more recommendations, please visit the Youth Services desk at your library.

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Teens Win E-Readers!

Did you or do you know someone who waited hours in line for their iPad? Well, one lucky teen patron didn't have to wait in any line or pay anything for his iPad! Robert C. was the grand prize winner of the 2010 TeenRead summer program drawing. He won an iPad and a $25.00 iTunes gift card. Robert celebrated a birthday just two days before he received the news that he won. What a nice birthday present!

Robert, who is not one to read much for fun, was motivated to particpate in the TeenRead program so he could enter a drawing for one of three e-reader prizes. Two other teens, Jacob S. and Rainbow H., each won an iPod Touch and a $25.00 iTunes gift card. They had a choice of an iPod Touch or Amazon Kindle.

Over 850 teens signed up for TeenRead, a program that provided incentives for teens to read during the summer. Over 530 of them finished and earned a $10.00 Borders gift card. The gift cards were generously funded by the Foundation and Friends of the Santa Clara City Library.

The e-readers were paid for by a grant from the Michael J. Kirsch Foundation. The purpose of the grant was to encourage reading among teens using e-readers. It certainly motivated teens to read this summer. Collectively, they read over 6500 books!

Two other iPod Touches were awarded earlier this year from the e-reader grant to the winners of the "Read This Book" commercial contest during Teen Tech Week in March. The winning commercial was of the book, A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.

All of our winning teens, as well as other patrons with e-readers, can borrow e-books from the library or from home. Check out (no pun intended!) our Overdrive Download Station where patrons can download audio and electronic books directly onto their devices at the Library.

Thank you to the Michael J. Kirsch Foundation and the Foundation and Friends of the Library for their generous support of the library and its teen patrons!

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