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The following list provide access to classic and modern children's books including picture books.
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Children's Libraries
Adapted Books and Materials: http://schools.nycenet.edu/d75/academics/literacy/adaptedbooks/default.htm#titles
Over 70 adapted books in a variety of formats including Boardmaker, PowerPoint, and PDF.
Aesop's Fables: http://www.umass.edu/aesop/contents.html
38 fables in traditional and modern forms. Most in html some in flash.
Amazing Adventure Series: http://www.amazingadventure.com/
Children's stories which can be read on the screen or have read aloud. Has two books in flash format.
arts-entertainment-recreation.com: http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Arts/Literature/Children's_Literature/Online_Books/
Links to a variety of online children's books.
BAB Books: http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/ Over 12 online html picture book.
Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/baldwin/baldwin.html
Digitized versions of children's books published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the current year (scanned images).
Between the Lions: http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/
Flash video stories.
BookBox: http://www.bookbox.com/free_stuffcat.php
Selected stories from their site are available free as PDF single sheets and as MP3 files.
BookPals - performing artists for literacy in schools: http://www.bookpals.net/
191 stories read by members of the screen actors guild (and others). Stories are read and displayed through streaming video. Additional story resources are also available including stories by phone and guest story readers for schools.
Book-Pop: http://www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html
12 html picture books with the option to have the book read aloud.
British Library Online Gallery: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Digitized original classics. An audio feature allows a visitor to have the book read aloud (original version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Mozart's Musical Diary includes 75 audio excerpts).
byGosh.com: http://www.bygosh.com/index.html
Children’s classic books in HTML format.
Candlelight Stories: http://www.candlelightstories.com/HelpOFoodMem.htm
Children's and chapter books in a variety of formats.
CBeebies Story Circle: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/storycircle/
Over 80 stories and activity books for preschool children
Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project, Inc (formerly Editec Communications' Children's Books for Free library): www.childrensbooksonline.org
1,200 antique children's books published in the 19th and early 20th century in HTML
childrenselibrary.com: http://www.childrenselibrary.com/
An online bookstore for teachers and schools, this company does offer a 30 day trial program to allow teachers to download and use eBooks for use with their classes (lit).
Children's Literature From the Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll/digitalcoll-children.html
Large number of children's books in PDF and online page flip formats.
Children's story book online: http://www.magickeys.com/books/
Over 30 illustrated children's stories in html.
Children's Literature From the Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll/digitalcoll-children.html
Large number of children's books in PDF and online page flip formats.
Class Conscious Big Books: http://www.classconsciousbooks.com/bigbooks.html
Seventeen young children's stories HTML based.
Clifford's Interactive Storybooks: http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/
Four interactive stories about Clifford the Big Red Dog in flash format, presented by Scholastic.
Digital Gallery of World Picture Books: http://www.kodomo.go.jp/gallery/digi/index_e.html
Collection of over 45 FLASH books from the The International Library of Children's Literature / National Diet Library
Ebooks for Young Readers: http://www.saskschools.ca/~ebooks/
Leveled books in pdf ebook, print, and editable formats.
Fiction Teachers Classroom Theater: http://www.fictionteachers.com/classroomtheater/theater.html
14 reader's theater scripts (html).
GenieBooks in PowerPoint: http://www.auburn.edu/%7Emurrag1/bookindex.html
Decodable books for beginning readers in HTML or PPT, with books identified by phonic.
HarperCollins Children's: http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/BookFinder/
HarperCollins has a special feature on their website called "Browse Inside," an application allowing visitors to sample whole books from the list of HarperCollins titles online using a special flash display. Click on the Browse Inside link to access content. Over 500 titles in the children's section.
Hazardous Weather Books: http://www.floridadisaster.org/kids/teachPlan.htm
Three early elementary Hazardous Weather Readers and Teacher Planning Guides (PDF).
Houghton Mifflin Company' Online Teacher Resources: http://www.eduplace.com/marketing/leveledbooks/sampler/content/index.html
14 leveled reading booklets (K-6) in a special web format, also has associated teacher information.
Inkless Tales: http://www.inklesstales.com/stories/
Variety of early reader/emeregent and dolch stories.
International Children's Digital Library (ICDL): http://www.icdlbooks.org/
The ICDL is building an international collection that reflects both the diversity and quality of children's literature from 27 cultures in 23 languages (html).
Internet Public Library - KidSpace: http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
This section of IPL contains The Reading Zone which is similar to the fiction section at a public library. There are links to on-line stories and information and links about favorite books and authors.
Kiddie Records Weekly: http://www.kiddierecords.com/
New record each weekly of a “classic” record audio book from the 40’s and 50’s into MP3 format.
KidPub: http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
KidPub is an online database collection of over 40,000 stories written by children for children.
Kids' Corner from Wired for Books: http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm
Audio stories from Beatrix Potter (English, French, German, and Japanese) and Alice Adventures in Wonderland, Frog Prince, Christmas "Carol, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and more (Real media)
Kennedy Center's Storytime Online: http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/storytimeonline/
Four video story books (Real)
Kiz Club: http://www.kizclub.com/Sbody.html
44 leveled flash books with printable versions
LearningPage.com: www.learningpage.com
Variety of early reader books, mostly in printable (.PDF) and some in web based formats. Free registration required
Light Up Your Brain: http://lightupyourbrain.com/
18 Children's stories read aloud.
Lil' Fingers: http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html
Storybook site for toddler age children (HTML & FLASH).
Lisa Blau's Monthly Script for Reader’s Theatre: http://www.lisablau.com/archives.html
26 reader's theater scripts.
Lookybook: http://www.lookybook.com/
A picture book collection that uses a flash display to show the entire book, but has no option for zooming or enlarging. Users are able to create their own bookshelves from the extensive collection (over 300 books).
Mighty Book Catalogue: http://www.mightybook.com/catalogue.htm
Over 50 children's books ages 2-preteen in html. Books will read aloud.
NASA Books
Imagers http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/
An online stories Echo the Bat and Amelia the Pigeon in html.
Robin Whirlybird on her Rotorcraft Adventures. http://rotored.arc.nasa.gov
A story and activities of a girl visiting her mother's work: in English, Spanish, and Chinese (HTML)
Our Very Own Star and Auroras! (Flash format) http://stargazer.gsfc.nasa.gov/epo/jsp/products.jsp
Newbery Honor Books and Medal Winners: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_collections/newbery/newbery.html
Nine award winning books by women authors from the 20's though the 60's.
Read On - Audio Stories: http://www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories/index.html
Over 150 short stories in flash format with audio.
Reader’s Theater Editions: http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html
A collection of free scripts for readers theater, adapted from stories by Aaron Shepard and others.
Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays for the Classroom: http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm
Links to over 50 scripts.
Reading A-Z: http://www.readinga-z.com
An online book seller of leveled book that you print out. Sample books are available (pdf).
RIF Reading Planet: http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx
A collection of read aloud books that changes monthly (Flash format).
Sebastian Swan's Infant Explorer: http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/
Eight online big books (html).
Sesame Street: http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/sitemap/?sectionId=stories
(flash) Read and make stories
Scholastic Book Clubs Read Aloud Contest: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/contests/winners/readaloud/index.htm
Video stories from the three selected winners.
Scripts from the Reading Lady:
http://www.readinglady.com/index.php?name=Downloads&req=viewdownload&cid=7
Over 45 scripts in .doc and .pdf formats.
Snee: http://www.snee.com/epubkidsbooks/
16 free epub children's picture books
Starfall.com: http://www.starfall.com/
Designed for designed for first grade, with over 75 FLASH reading/writing resources that are also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade
Stories from Indonesia: http://www.geocities.com/kesumawijaya/
Seven html text stories.
Storyline Online - from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG): http://www.storylineonline.net/
19 stories read by members of the screen actors guild, including modern classics such as Stellaluna and the Polar Express. Stories are read and displayed through streaming video.
StoryPlace Elementary Library: http://www.storyplace.org/eel/other.asp
6 stories for elementary children along with suggested readings and print out activities.
StoryPlace PreSchool Library: http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp
15 Stories and associated books and activities for children and parents.
Stories to Read Online: http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/storiesontheweb/storiesontheweb.html
Links to about 100 stories for early childhood and elementary
Tales of Wonder: http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/index.html
Folk and fairy tales from around the world in HTML.
Tampa Reads: http://www.tampareads.com/books-ol/index-ol.htm
Three books (HTML) for 1st Grade readers.
Tikiri - Stories from Sri Lanka: http://www.tikiri.com/e-kathandara.html
35 books in PDF format in English and Sinhala.
United States of America's Korean War Commemoration: http://korea50.army.mil/teachers/index.shtml
Has two online picture books (html).
