Encouraging Reading with E-Books

A UK on-line company is "bringing the magic of books to life" via one of modern kids favorite things, their home computer.. A visit to their site http://www.wizz-e.com/ starts with a gentle benign Wizard and the opening of a magical door to a beautiful castle. Through the door you are given the opportunity to sample some of the company's e-books through free downloads, as well as work some of their puzzles on-line free of charge.

Wizz-e.com is owned by Ebooks4Kidz Ltd an electronic publisher of books and puzzles. They do not publish or distribute hard copy materials. In their own words; "We are not trying to be a substitute for tangible books or bed time reading. Our mission is simple: We just want kids to read more, and have fun at it! Some children prefer to read online and to have the help, support and interactivity of an eBook. It makes reading fun. When parents or carers are busy then kids can still have a story they love read to them or read it themselves and click on any unknown words to hear them spoken without waiting for an adult to help. So if kids are reading and having fun - everyone wins."

My seven year old assistant reviewer spent an hour on the site working the free educational puzzles available. Though on first observation, I would have guessed that he would find the games lacking in sophistication and therefore impose that word all youngster begin to try out in middle elementary, "boring," he did not. Instead he played each game (puzzle) at the various levels available at least twice and later in the day ask to go back on the site. I was a little surprised. Remember their wizard is kindly and benign not menacing and there were no metal clad dark warriors anywhere on the site. And the site freebies are designed for pre-school through early elementary. My assistant seemed to appreciate the fact that he could get to the puzzles, activate them and play completely with out assistance.

The site is another opportunity to add to your home educational or school materials, though the freebies, naturally are limited on the site. So check them out and if you like the quality of http://www.wizz-e.com/ , remember that 10% of their profits are donated to supporting Room to Read – a charity building schools, libraries and sponsoring education in developing countries, http://www.roomtoread.org/.
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