ONLINE LIBRARIES FOR CHILDREN

Online Libraries for Children

 

 

International Digital Children's Library: It is free online library having books in 59 languages from various countries. Designed specifically for use by children ages 3 to 13, the Library is housed by the International Children's Digital Library Foundation and was originally developed in the College of Information Studies and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park.

 

2020ok: Around 100 books for babies through 12 nicely divided into categories.  Note:  Most of the links here are working, but there are a number that lead to BookRags, which are not free anymore.  Unfortunately, there is no way of telling where the link goes until you click the link.  Since they did fix the issue with archive.org links, hopefully they will fix this. Thanks to Marie99 for pointing this out.

 

ABC Fast Phonics: A completely free site for children to learn to read through phonics.  No registration needed.

 

AaronShephard'sWorldof Stories : It is a nicely categorized collection of stories from around the world for online reading.  The listings give the appropriate age for reading, length of the story and origin. 

 

Aesop's Fables: It offers 655+ of the Aesop fables for free online reading as well as 127 fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the fable of Jean Fontaine (17 and being added to).  There are also a couple of L. Frank Baum stories and Dickens' , A Christmas Carol.  Also available are 37 audio versions.

Allen Morgan: It offers quite a few of his stories and novels for children for free reading online without registration. 

 

AlvieTheLittleBrownBurro: It has seven Alvie stories to read online or download in MP3. 

 

AmazingAdventureSeries: It offers the children story "June the Prune" for free reading online.  The story can also be heard by pressing the audio button at the top of the page.

 

AmericanFolklore: It offers many folk stories from USA, Canada and Mexico as well as Native American for online viewing.

 

American Literature: It has a nice little collection of free stories for children available for free reading online.  These have some nice illustrations.

 

AndersenFairyTales:   It offers several of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales for free online reading in a flash player.  Also available are associated activities.

 

Animated Tall Tales: offers the flash animated story of Paul Bunyan for free reading online.

 

Antique Books: has 20 of the classic Golden Books for free online viewing without registration.

Archive.org (Children's Library): It large collection of children's books available for online viewing (original books) and download

 

ArmenianStoryTeller: It has a few Armenian stories and poems available for free reading online.

 

Arthur's Classic Novels: It has a large and impressive collection of free classic ebooks for children sorted by Author.  The ones I looked at were either available as EPUB or PDF, but apparently some are MOBI.  Very nice if you want to get started on a classic book series.

 

Author Marketing Club: monitors Amazon (USA) for daily free ebook offerings. The amount listed varies from day to day.  They do offer genre selection and every daily listing that I saw had Children's books.  You do have to go into each daily listing individually.

 

Author Stand: has a good number of free original children books.  There are a few books that cost money mixed in to the listing, but the vast majority are available for free download in PDF.  Free registration is required and I have received no spam after registering months ago.

 

BABBooks: It has 25 free illustrated books available for online reading or listening.

 

Baldwin Library of Children's Literature: It has almost 6,000 classic , but unique, children's books for free viewing online.  the ones I looked at had beautiful illustrations.  A caution that some of the works are unacceptable by today's standards due to the view of minorities at that time.  Not related to the above as far as I can tell.

Baldwin Online Children's Projects: 520 classic  children's books in a variety of genres for online viewing.

 

BBCSchools: It has three online illustrated books for young children that can be viewed with or without audio. 

 

Bedtime-Story : It has a large collection of illustrated books for online viewing.  Some are classics and others are unique stories separated into unusual categories.

 

Best Children;s Books: It offers 2 original children books and links to a number of free children books. 

 

BetweentheLions: It has a good number of video books with words for younger readers to follow along.  Also some games and other activities for young readers.

 

B For Ball: It offers books for online viewing geared to preschoolers.  These books cover basics such as alphabet, colors, shapes etc.  Thanks to Gretish for this suggestion.

 

Bibliotastic : It has an interesting and unique collection of 15 free ebooks in their children's category.  These may be viewed online without registration.  Free registration is required to download in PDF, KINDLE or EPUB.

 

BookBox: It has about 20 free books available for download in pdf (as a single page) and MP3.  Also free games and coloring books.

 

Book Goodies For Kids: monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebooks for children. 

 

Bookie Jar: has almost 2,000 free ebooks in its Children's Books Free Classics category and 1 free ebook in its  Children's Books Free Indie category.  All are available for free reading online without registration.  Registration also allows free download in EPUB (Nook, iPad etc.) or Kindle compatible MOBI.

 

BookRix: It has more than 2900 free children's ebooks for free reading online or free download in EPUB.  These are unpublished authors works.  Age range of reading material varies from tot to teen.

 

Booksie: It is a site for self publishing authors and has over 1800 free works for children.  These vary from short stories to full length novels.  The short stories are available for free reading online and fee download in PDF.  The novels and longer stories are available for free download in PDF.

 

BooksShouldBeFree: It has a good size collection of Childrens and Fairy Tales books available for download in plain text format.

 

BritishCouncil : It has a very nice collection of flash animated song and audio read-a-long stories.  Games and other activities also available.  Audio may be disabled for reading only.  They also have posted the stories at YouTube.

 

Bubu Tales: It has free books, in a wide variety of languages, available for free download in PDF

 

BuddhaNet: It offers about 15 Buddhist books for children as well as textbooks and coloring books for download in PDF.

 

Building Rainbows: It is a site where children may post reviews of books they have read. They also have 15 free classic novels available for free reading online without registration.

 

byGosh: It has about 20 illustrated classics for younger children, as well as 9 classics for older children.  All are available for free reading online

 

 There are lots of other online libraries for children. Please visit following link for more information:

 

Best Free Children's eBooks Online