Children's Literature

This link will search our catalog for electronic books that are classifed as "Juvenile Fiction."
Narrow the search by adding keywords in the search box.

Hundreds of great classics stories, fairy-tales, fables, and nursery rhymes for children.

No login required. Books are geared to the Young Adult audience. The Bluford Series is a collection of twenty-one young adult novels that focus on the lives of a group of high school students and their families. Set in contemporary urban America, each novel addresses complex topics relevant to the lives of today's students: family, friendship, trust, isolation, violence, and peer pressure, to name a few. In addition, the books feature male and female characters and include elements from many literary genres, such as mystery, suspense, romance, and a touch of the supernatural. Books are short (less than 200 pages) and written in a highly readable style. Provided by Townsend Press as a free resource to educators and students.

Brightly Storyime is a YouTube Channel that brings you full-length picture books read out loud by their storyteller, Ms. Linda. Drop by for a new video every week! Brightly is a resource to help parents raise lifelong readers. Launched in partnership with Penguin Random House, Brightly features book recommendations for every age and stage, reading tips and insights, seasonal inspirations, and author essays.

DigiLibraries.com offers a digital source of free eBooks. To download free ebooks just browse the various categories on the left or simply use the search box. Titles available are more classics in nature or more obscure titles. No login is required.
User must download the book as an Adobe PDF which will require Adobe Digital Editions or Kindle/Mobi software download.

Epic is a digital library of books for ages 12 and under. Teachers and librarians are eligible for a free account.

Audio or video with text versions of traditional fairy tales translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and German. Parallel text in English is available.

The GDL collects existing high quality open educational reading resources, and makes them available on the web, mobile, and print. The GDL currently offers resources in 43 languages, and by year-end 2020 the goal is to provide 100 languages. As a flagship activity within the Global Book Alliance, the Global Digital Library (GDL) has been developed to increase the availability of high-quality reading resources in underserved languages worldwide. “Underserved languages” refer to languages where there is currently a lack of quality early grade reading resources.

The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. The materials included in the collection reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, lifestyles, and priorities of peoples around the world. The collection's focus is on identifying materials that help children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live. The Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.

Open Library's Student Library, a School Library designed for a K - 12 audience. A subdivision of the Internet Archive.

Enjoy story time videos with authors as they read aloud their books, drawing tutorials, arts and craft activities, and more.

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then release the audio files back onto the net for free. All audio files from this site are in the public domain.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Most were published before 1924, with some published in the decades after. Use one of the search methods on this page, or try using the Bookshelves to browse by genre, age group, and topic. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national pediatric literacy program that promotes early literacy and school readiness in clinics nationwide.

Well-known children's stories translated into Spanish and spoken by a native Spanish speaker. Read along in Spanish or English.

Access to a limited number of beginning readers, especially from Margaret Hillert.

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.

Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. They are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. All content is free.

The Story Shares platform offers a digital library filled with Relevant Reads: a range of books at different reading levels and interest levels. It also includes features to make reading more accessible to students (such as read-aloud, word look-up), some teacher dashboard/tracking features, and a book-building tool. Their goal is to provide content that is relevant, readable, and engaging for students who read below grade level beyond elementary school. Story Shares generates and then distributes new stories aimed at older students who read below grade level, specifically ensuring that the content is interesting at their age and readable at their level. To do so, they are building the Story Shares Hub to bring together authors, readers, and educators. For authors, the Hub provides a digital book builder to guide the creation of just-right content, and access to a large group of potential readers. For readers and educators, the Hub provides a library of newly created just-right content, distributed on a platform with built-in reading assists to make it even more approachable. Requires you to establish a free account to access materials.

Children's books read aloud by astronauts on the International Space Station.

UShistory.org offers high school textbooks in US History, American Government, and Ancient Civilizations.

Bring joyful reading into your classroom with UniteBooks.com, a digital library for preschool and primary learners that’s free and easy to use for teachers and families alike.

Vooks brings children's books to life with animated illustrations, read-a-long text and narrated story. Vooks is a kid-safe video streaming service with ad-free, age-appropriate content. The ad-free platform features a variety of titles that have been engaging students all across the world. Whether being used as part of the lesson or to wind class down, Vooks is a fun and versatile tool for the classroom. Exclusively to all school teachers and home school educators they are offering the first year free. No credit card is required.

YouTube Channel dedicated to Harper Collins Children's books. Many books are read aloud by their authors.

The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 115,000 volumes published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day.

A collection of the treasures of children's literature published in USA and Great Britain,1850 -1950+. The core are books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature. Also included are books from Florida Atlantic University, Florida State University, and the University of South Florida.

Children’s books were selected from the General and Rare Book Collections at the Library of Congress including classic works and lesser-known treasures, published in the USA and England before 1925. These books are no longer under copyright and are free to read, share, and reuse.