International Children's Digital Library: A Library for the World's Children

International Children's Digital Library

In watching a webinar titled Technology to Aid the Struggling Reader, I learned about this digital library where the mission of the ICDL Foundation is "to build a collection of books that represent outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world." 

ICDL recognizes that language barriers and programing for language learning students continues to grow.  As noted in the website, "a fundamental principle of the Foundation is that children and their families deserve to have access to the books of their culture, as well as the majority culture, regardless of where they live. The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world."

In searching the digital library I found some fantastic books!  I searched by authors/illustrators where I found books by Molly Bang, Walter Dean Myers, Louisa May Alcott, David Shannon, and many more.  I encourage teachers to share this with families, and hope it is another digital book resource used in the classroom.