My Father’s Dragon – This is the Read Online Version of this wonderful classic story       MY FATHER’S DRAGON   STORY BY RUTH STILES GANNETT ILLUSTRATIONS BY RUTH CHRISMAN GANNETT       For My FATHER CONTENTS 1. My Father Meets the Cat 9 2. My Father Runs Away 15 3. My Father …

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. By: Herman Melville   Moby Dick Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Loomings …

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Kenneth Grahame First published 1908 This classic book has been created for publication by Free Kids Books, https://www.freekidsbooks.org Free Kids Books provides a multitude of new original, creative commons, and classic children’s books – for free download and read online, for the joy of reading and promoting literacy. Simply providing …

THE STORY OF ALADDIN AND HIS MAGICAL LAMP There once lived, in one of the large and rich cities of China, a tailor, named Mustapha. He was very poor. He could hardly, by his daily labor, maintain himself and his family, which consisted only of his wife and a son. His son, who was called …

ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES There once lived in a town of Persia two brothers, one named Cassim, and the other Ali Baba. Their father divided a small inheritance equally between them. Cassim married a very rich wife, and became a wealthy merchant. Ali Baba married a woman as poor as himself, and lived …

SINBAD THE SAILOR The First Voyage The Second Voyage The Third Voyage The Fourth Voyage The Fifth Voyage The Sixth Voyage The Seventh and Last Voyage     Sinbad The Sailor – From Arabian Nights Classic Children’s Stories In the reign of the same caliph, Haroun-al-Raschid, of whom we have already heard, there lived at …

3 CLASSIC CHILDREN’S STORIES FROM ARABIAN NIGHTS Origin: Unknown Edited and Retold by  William Patten This ebook compiled by: https://www.freekidsbooks.org Simply providing great free kids books for everyone to share and enjoy – no strings attached. The material contained in the book is in public domain, and as such it is not subject to copyright. …

RAGGEDY ANN STORIES Written & Illustrated by JOHNNY GRUELLE Contents PREFACE AND DEDICATION INTRODUCTION RAGGEDY ANN LEARNS A LESSON RAGGEDY ANN AND THE WASHING RAGGEDY ANN AND THE KITE RAGGEDY ANN RESCUES FIDO RAGGEDY ANN AND THE PAINTER RAGGEDY ANN’S TRIP ON THE RIVER RAGGEDY ANN AND THE STRANGE DOLLS RAGGEDY ANN AND THE KITTENS …

LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, …

RAPUNZEL Classic Stories for Children By the Brothers Grimm  There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid …