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404 Animated Tall Tales - Animated versions of classic American tales like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others. Fully narrated online story books and Flash cartoons.
Meta Description: [ Animated Tall Tales: Find the animated versions of classic american Tall Tales like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others. They are fully narrated online story books and Flash cartoons for children and kids of all ages. ]

Books for Young Readers - Electronic text versions of young children's books and rhymes. Most are illustrated.
Meta Description: [ Classic children's books, available for free online reading - Mother Goose nursery rhymes, Aesop's fables, Alice in Wonderland, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Anne of Green Gables, more. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Book reviews and discussion. Read and submit book reviews for books to share with the literature community. ]

byGosh.com: Children's Classics - Offers online selection of classic stories for kids and teens. Includes links to short stories for kids.
Meta Description: [ byGosh.com - Free Online - Classic Children's Stories, Illustrated Children's Books, - Mother Goose nursery rhymes, Aesop's fables, Alice in Wonderland, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, many more. ]

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.

Classic Bookshelf - E-texts presented with the aid of an applet which allows the choice of font size, spacing, and color.
Meta Description: [ Find readable electronic books in the Classic Bookshelf Electronic Library. ]

Classic Reader - A large collection of full-length classic stories for online reading.

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.

From Mother Goose in Prose by Frank Baum - Includes story versions of a few rhymes.
Meta Description: [ Some Frank Baum tales inspired by Mother Goose rhymes. Abridged by T. Kinnes. ]

Golden Books - Offers printable activities and games based on childhood favorites.

IPL Story Hour - A small collection of online stories for younger readers. Contents include: Mother Goose, The Tortoise and the Hare, and others.

Jack London's Writings - A collection of electronic text versions of novels and short stories by Jack London.

Kids' Corner - Featuring the stories of Beatrix Potter in text, RealAudio, streaming media, and multimedia slide shows.
Meta Description: [ Kids' Corner, featuring the stories of Beatrix Potter in text, RealAudio, streaming media, and multimedia slideshows ]

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.

The Baldwin Project - Online editions of classic children's books from the golden age of children's literature (1880-1922).

The Motley Kids - Dedicated to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. An online project at Westminster High School in California for English Honors 2.
Meta Description: [ Come in and see what a bunch of bum kids from Westminster High school did for their MERITS project that took massive amounts of time, which were all in vain ]

The Online Books Page - Electronic texts archived at the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library. Search or browse by author/title/subject.

The Real Mother Goose - The original text complete with all the rhymes and scanned illustrations.
Meta Description: [ The book 'The Real Mother Goose', ilustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright with wonderful pen and watercolor illustrations, was first printed in 1916. In 1989, The Real Mother Goose was 20th on the list of All-Time Bestselling Hardcover Children's Books, having sold 3,600,000. J. Cormier has transcr... ]

The Virtual Bookshelf - An archive of virtual books in a web-friendly format.

The War of the Worlds - E-text of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
Meta Description: [ The War of the Worlds ]

Treasure Island: Classic Books for Teens - A list of fifty classic books appropriate for young adults each linked to corresponding public domain versions of the text. List is sorted by author.

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.