Classics

Animated Tall Tales
Animated versions of classic American tales like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others. Fully narrated online story books and Flash cartoons.
http://www.animatedtalltales.com

The Baldwin Project
Online editions of classic children's books from the golden age of children's literature (1880-1922).
http://www.mainlesson.com/

Books for Young Readers
Electronic text versions of young children's books and rhymes. Most are illustrated.
http://www.bygosh.com/kidsstories.htm

Building Rainbows Book Reviews - Classic Children's Books
A collection of electronic texts for young people with provisions for adding book reviews and discussion about each of the books.
http://www.buildingrainbows.com/ETEXT/classics.html

byGosh.com: Children's Classics
Offers online selection of classic stories for kids and teens. Includes links to short stories for kids.
http://www.bygosh.com/childrensclassics.htm

Catcher in the Rye Essays
Includes a summary of the book, an "about the author" section, essay ideas and help, and completed essays.
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/honeydew/

Children's Classics List from The Horn Book
A downloadable listing of children's classics with associated descriptions arranged by age group. The list was compiled by Mary M. Burns. [PDF]
http://www.hbook.com/pdf/childrensclassics.pdf

Classic Bookshelf
E-texts presented with the aid of an applet which allows the choice of font size, spacing, and color.
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/

Classic Reader
A large collection of full-length classic stories for online reading.
http://www.classicreader.com/

Classics for Young People
A list of classic literature for young people sorted by author. HTML versions of the text are included for many of the books.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storclas.html

Electronic Texts Formated by Robert Stockton
A collection of over twenty electronic text versions of classics reformatted for easy reading.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/rgs/mosaic/rgs-home.html

Fahrenheit 451
Learn about the characters, conflict, vocabulary, and the theme of this novel. Includes polls and chat room.
http://www.freewebs.com/fahrenheit-451/

The Fairytale Garden
Illustrated poems, stories and fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen and Robert Louis Stevenson.
http://www.geocities.com/noralinno/index.html

From Mother Goose in Prose by Frank Baum
Includes story versions of a few rhymes.
http://oaks.nvg.org/goose-prose.html

Golden Books
Offers printable activities and games based on childhood favorites.
http://www.randomhouse.com/golden/

IPL Story Hour
A small collection of online stories for younger readers. Contents include: Mother Goose, The Tortoise and the Hare, and others.
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/

Jack London's Writings
A collection of electronic text versions of novels and short stories by Jack London.
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/

Kids' Corner
Featuring the stories of Beatrix Potter in text, RealAudio, streaming media, and multimedia slide shows.
http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm

Lynch Multimedia
Includes Shakespeare's plays with audio, and the original.
http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/

Mary Jo's E-texts
A collection of electronic classics covering a range of authors. A document viewer is required to view these zipped files.
http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html

The Online Books Page
Electronic texts archived at the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library. Search or browse by author/title/subject.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Trina's Curious George Website
Find information about Curious George and his creators, pictures, an introduction to the series, and links.
http://www.geocities.com/trina_kf/

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: The Modern English Collection
Browse and search the publicly-accessible electronic texts from this extensive selection. Browse by author, or area of interest. Search by author or title or keywords/phrases within the text. Some titles include illustrations.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html

The War of the Worlds
E-text of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html

Young People's Zone
A site with children's literature online sorted by series and author. Includes fairy tales, Avonlea series, fables, Robin Hood tales, and other classics
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/ordinal/