Ebook Reading Review

I read Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney via the www.wegivebooks.org website.

This is a wonderful, rhyming story that follows a little llama on his first day of school.  This book would be perfect for preschoolers and kindergartners because it helps allay anxiety about being away from parents.  The rhythmic rhyming pattern of the text also encourages developing readers to guess at new words that they may not already recognize. 

The www.wegivebooks.org website allows users to register for free and has a good variety of high quality children's books available to read for free.  I liked that the book could be enlarged to full screen - this made the pictures and words clearly visible.  An internet connection and Adobe Flashplayer are necessary to view books, so you can't read the books on iPADs.  This would be a drawback for some, but you can also buy the book in a Kindle or NOOK format. 

I was actually surprised that I liked reading this ebook with my kindergartener as much as a traditional book. We weren't slowed down or distracted by turning pages or seeing how close we were to the end of the book.  One thing that would be nice would be adding audio to the book.  I think I will record us reading a book like this with my iPhone and then he can play the recording when he rereads the book alone.  We will definitely be reading more ebooks in the future!!