Free Animated Download of Horton Hears a Who!
By Joan Oleck -- School Library Journal, 2/29/2008 4:00:00 AM
An animated digital version of Horton Hears a Who! is available for free to teachers throughout March, thanks to the National Education Association’s (NEA) Read Across America celebration of Theodor Seuss Geisel’s (Dr. Seuss) 104th birthday.
The download, now available on Kidthing, brings the classic book to life with animation, narration, and sound effects. Librarians, teachers, and care givers can turn the sound off and read the book aloud—just like their parents did.
Be sure to check the Web to see if one of NEA's three Cat-a-Van tours is visiting their city to support the joy of reading. The vans, scheduled to travel 1,200 miles across 11 states, start in Atlanta, Austin, and Chicago. They'll visit 18 cities in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas in order to provide more than 12,000 books and cash grants, care of NEA's Books Across America to school libraries. Details are online.
The first Read Across America took place in 1998. It's sponsored by the NEA and many of the country's leading literacy and youth groups to motivate children to read and generate new enthusiasm for reading. Geisel, who died in 1991, would have turned 104 on March 2.
