Other
Children's Book Council: Building a Home Library
The Children's Book Council offers four downloadable lists for different age groups to use for developing a home library or just for finding good books to read.
Other
Children's Books Forever
Download for free classic children's books for use with SMARTboards, overhead projectors, or PowerPoint presentations.
Fact Monster
Fact Monster: Classic Picture Books
Type with farm animals, talk with a dog, and read poetry about insects. Entertaining stories and interesting artwork are enjoyed by students of all ages. Use this list of classic picture books for suggestions.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Little Classics: Childhood by Rossiter Johnson (Editor)
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Classics: Childhood by Rossiter Johnson (Editor) (c1875), a collection of illustrated children's stories.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Children's Literature Newsletter
Free monthly email newsletters featuring classic children's literature, new books, ideas and activities to use with students, and links to other Internet resources.
Library of Congress
Book Turner: Children's Literature: A Apple Pie
Read this classic children's ACC book by Kate Greenaway, printed in 1886. Library of Congress presents a scanned copy of the original book.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1883), a children's classic novel.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1866), a children's classic novel including a biography of the author.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1890), a children's classic novel. Included is a Defoe biography
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner by Daniel Defoe (1865), an illustrated classic novel.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
This is the full text of the children's novel The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
This is the full text of the children's short story collection The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang; it features 35 stories from around the world that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
This is the full text of the children's novel The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, the second book in the Doctor Dolittle series.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Two Elsies by Martha Finley
This is the full text of the children's novel The Two Elsies by Martha Finley, Book 11 in the Original Elsie Dinsmore Series.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Willis the Pilot by Johanna Spyri
This is the full text of the Swiss children's novel Willis the Pilot by Johanna Spyri, author of Heidi.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit
This is the full text of the humorous children's novel The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit. After being sent to the country "to learn to be good", the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods but continue...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
This is the full text of the collection of 48 fairy tales The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Veronica and Other Friends by Johanna Spyri
This is the full text of the Swiss children's novel Veronica And Other Friends by Johanna Spyri, author of Heidi.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: A Village Stradivarius by Kate Douglas Wiggin
This is the full text of the children's novel A Village Stradivarius by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: What Sami Sings With the Birds by Johanna Spyri
This is the full text of the Swiss children's novel What Sami Sings with the Birds by Johanna Spyri, the author of Heidi.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Johanna Spyri
This is the full text of the Swiss children's novel Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Johanna Spyri, author of Heidi.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
This is the full text of the children's novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. It focuses on four anthropomorphized animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England and is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure,...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Toni, the Little Woodcarver by Johanna Spyri
This is the full text of the children's novel Toni, the Little Woodcarver by Johanna Spyri. A little story of Swiss peasant life by the author of Heidi.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1892). This illustrated book features six classical myths written for children to understand.