The Jungle Book a classic tale of Mowgli – a boy who is abandoned in the jungle and bought up by wolves, a bear, and a panther. The original tale has lots more to tell than the popular disney version and makes a great story for bedtime – children will want to go to bed …

The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck is another classic Beatrix Potter, presented in a unique new way for colourful online reading by Kiwi Opa. Jemima Puddleduck is annoyed because the farmer’s wife will not let her hatch her own eggs. Jemima runs away to find a suitable spot, and meets a ‘friend’ who offers to help. …

Helen Keller’s Autobiography, written at age 22, and details her growing up, before and after meeting Anne Sullivan, and her years in formal education, both special needs education and afterwards when she was accepted into main stream education, with the help of Ms Sullivan’s translation. The book includes letters written by Helen from the age …

Brothers Grim Classic Children’s Stories is a collection of famous classic children’s stories from European folk history. The collection includes favourites such as Rapunzel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Tom Thumb, Briar Rose, and many many more timeless classic children’s stories. Each of the classic stories is …

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – In this Mark Twain classic, Tom and his friend Huck get up to all sorts of adventures. By: Mark Twain         Text from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer CHAPTER I “TOM!” No answer. “TOM!” No answer. “What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!” No …

In The World I Live In – The Practice of Optimism, Iby Helen Keller explains in an amazing and inspiring set of biographical accounts, along with essays and poems what it is like for her in her world. Helen Keller, being both deaf and blind, seeing the world through her sense of touch, displays an …

Little Red Riding Hood is a timeless classic children’s story about little red riding hood and the wolf. The story is a European folk tale, this version retold by Charles Perrault. by: Charles Perrault FULL TEXT FROM THE BOOK: Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature …

Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales – This collection of Hans Christian Andersen’s popular stories for children includes The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Snow Queen, and The Little Match Girl among many others. This work is in public domain, and as such can be used in any way by anyone, even to modify and create your …

This book provides 3 Classic Children Stories from Arabian Nights, also called one thousand and one nights. The of the most popular stories, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Theives, and Alladin, are featured in this text, edited by William Patten. The full text of the book can be read online here: https://freekidsbooks.org/3-classic-childrens-stories-arabian-nights-read-online/ …

  In Moby Dick; or, The Whale, Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler the Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the previous whaling voyage bit off Ahab’s leg at the knee. Ishmael travels in December from Manhattan Island to New Bedford …