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International Children's Digital Library

A project by education professor Alison Druin at the University of Maryland to make children's books from all over the world available online. While it remains to be seen how widely this will actually be used, it is a cool idea, and it sounds like they have thought about the way their intended audience looks for books. "One of our most interesting findings was how kids wanted to look for books based on how they made them feel... No library in the world has shelf labels that say 'happy books,' so the kids are rating the books on how they make them feel."

--> www.icdlbooks.org
--> Online children's library makes searches easier (SF Chronicle)