Online Literature

Learn about this major new online library, which, when completed, will include 10,000 books, in this article by your About Children's Books Guide.

This site contains more than 650 fables but does not include illustrations.

Second book, in text-only form, of Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic series.

The first book in the popular series by Lucy Maud Montgomery in text-only form.

This site bills itadelf as "the largest collection of illustrated antique children's books on line...we think." Here you can download entire, illustrated books as compressed zip files.

Here you will find such classic fairy tales as Cinderella online in the complete text of Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book, from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.

Rudyard Kipling's classic stories, with individual links to each story, but no illustrations.

Lots of familiar nursery rhymes here, cover art from many editions, advice on reading nursery rhymes, and more.

Ohio University's Kids Corner includes Beatrix Potter stories in English and Japanese and much more.

This is my favorite illustrated edition of the classic tale by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It comes from the Library of Congress.

Illustrated stories and Mother Goose rhymes for young children, some with audio, from the Internet Public Library.

Text-only version of classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen.