The Best Online Classic Children's Books

In the Works

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey,  Boys and Girls of Colonial Days

L. Frank Baum,  The Land of Oz

Catherine T. Bryce,  Fables from Afar

Nelson Sherwin Bushnell,  The Historical Background of English Literature

Alfred J. Church,  Greek Story and Song

Julia Darrow Cowles,  Our Little Roman Cousin of Long Ago

Jennie Hall,  Buried Cities

Jennie Hall,  Four Old Greeks

Jennie Hall,  Men of Old Greece

Jennie Ellis Keysor,  Great Artists: Volume Five

Jennie Ellis Keysor,  Great Artists: Volume Four

Jennie Ellis Keysor,  Great Artists: Volume Three

Jennie Ellis Keysor,  Great Artists: Volume Two

Plato,  Apology

Gertrude van Duyn Southworth,  Builders of Our Country: Book I

Clara Vostrovsky Winlow,  Our Little Carthaginian Cousin of Long Ago

Anthology

Agnes Taylor Ketchum,  Kindergarten Gems

Horace Elisha Scudder,  The Children's Book

Biography

James Baldwin,  In My Youth

Charles F. Horne,  Artists and Authors

Charles F. Horne,  Soldiers and Sailors

Charles F. Horne,  Statesmen and Sages

Charles F. Horne,  Workmen and Heroes

Mrs. Frewen Lord,  Tales from St. Paul's Cathedral

Mrs. Frewen Lord,  Tales from Westminster Abbey

Francis Jameson Rowbotham,  Story Lives of Great Scientists

Henrietta Christian Wright,  Children's Stories of the Great Scientists

Fables

P. V. Ramaswami Raju,  Indian Fables

Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen,  Wonder Stories Told for Children

Madge A. Bingham,  Overheard in Fairyland

Padraic Colum,  The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes

Penrhyn W. Coussens,  A Child's Book of Stories

Joel Chandler Harris,  Uncle Remus—His Songs and his Sayings

Joseph Jacobs,  English Fairy Tales

Frances Jenkins Olcott,  Grimm's Fairy Tales

Beatrix Potter,  The Tailor of Gloucester

Howard Pyle,  The Wonder Clock

Louis Rhead,  Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales and Wonder Stories

Faith Stories

F. J. Harvey Darton,  The Seven Champions of Christendom

Jesse Lyman Hurlbut,  Hurlbut's Story of the Bible

M. R. James,  Old Testament Legends

Ella Noyes,  Saints of Italy

Charlotte M. Yonge,  A Book of Golden Deeds

Fiction

Julia Darrow Cowles,  Our Little Athenian Cousin of Long Ago

Julia Darrow Cowles,  Our Little Spartan Cousin of Long Ago

Frederick Marryat,  The Children of the New Forest

Various Writers,  Short Story Collection

Geography

Charlotte Mason,  The Counties of England

History

James Baikie,  Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Greece

Helene A. Guerber,  The Story of Old France

Eva Herbst,  Tales and Customs of the Ancient Hebrews

Ellwood W. Kemp,  Streams of History: Ancient Greece

Ellwood W. Kemp,  Streams of History: Ancient Rome

Ellwood W. Kemp,  Streams of History: Early Civilizations

Ellwood W. Kemp,  Streams of History: The Middle Ages

Ellwood W. Kemp,  Streams of History: The New World

Ellwood W. Kemp,  Streams of History: The Renaissance and Reformation

Ellwood W. Kemp,  Streams of History: The United States

Isabel Lovell,  Stories in Stone from the Roman Forum

William Shepard,  Our Young Folk's Josephus

James White,  Eighteen Christian Centuries

Frances Younghusband,  The Retreat of the Ten Thousand

Holiday Stories

Elva S. Smith,  Christmas in Legend and Story: A Book for Boys and Girls

Henry Van Dyke,  The Blue Flower

Legends

Helene A. Guerber,  Legends of the Middle Ages

Literature

Mary E. Burt,  Stories from Plato and Other Classic Writers

Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch,  Age of Chivalry

Samuel B. Harding,  Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men

Lilian Stoughton Hyde,  Favorite Greek Myths

Calvin Dill Wilson,  The Indian Story Book

Richard Wilson,  The Indian Story Book

Nature

Arabella Buckley,  Trees and Shrubs

Edith M. Patch,  Bird Stories

Nature Stories

Thornton Burgess,  The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse

Thornton Burgess,  The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

Thornton Burgess,  The Adventures of Peter Cottontail

William J. Long,  A Little Brother to the Bear

William J. Long,  School of the Woods

Charles Major,  The Bears of Blue River

Clara Dillingham Pierson,  Dooryard Stories

Poetry

Robert Browning,  The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Science

Arabella Buckley,  Life and Her Children

Jean Henri Fabre,  The Wonder Book of Chemistry

Storytelling

J. Berg Esenwein,  Children's Stories and How to Tell Them