Starfall.com- short books that help teach phonics with interactive games and sounds

Peacebound Trains- digital copy of a published book

Diary of Opal Whitely- republished diary of a girl at the turn of the century in Oregon with additional help such as timeline, teacher's guide, date chronology and more

Echo the Bat- NASA online book

Microsoft Reader- free download for PC computers, laptops and handhelds
Remember to download the Reader 2.1.1, the text-to-speech, dictionary and Spanish or French dictionary if you want those languages as well
Features include: highlighting, notepad, drawing, dictionary, computer speech of text

BookWink: Bookwink's mission is to inspire kids to read. Through podcasting and web video, we hope to connect kids in Grades 3 through 8 with books that will make them excited about reading. The videos are approximately 3 minutes long and are updated monthly. Each video booktalk is about a different topic, and additional read-alikes can be found on the Bookwink website. You can look for books by subject, grade level, author or title.

Net Library Public (free) and private (for paying members) collection of eBooks for reading online. Registration required.

ManyBooks Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 21,087 eBooks available here and they're all free!

Children's Books Online : The Rosetta Project This children's online library is a volunteer-driven project featuring scanned historical children's books. Many are translated into several languages.

International Children's Digital Library The goal of ICDL is to create a digital library of more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet.

Story Place : The Children's Digital Library Animated stories, reading lists and activities from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County.

Kid's Corner A number of stories by Beatrix Potter, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

HighlightsKids has 9 books available for listening and viewing online through a flash player. The site also has games, puzzles, reading stories and science experiments and stories for children.

Storyline Online View videos of noted actors reading popular picture books. Sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.

The Kennedy Center: Storytime Online The Kennedy Center has teamed up with RealNetworks to put some of the most popular children's books on computer screens around the world. Children and their families can now view online adaptations of Judith Viorst's classic Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, of which the theatrical version is a Kennedy Center commission currently on tour throughout the U.S., as well as Harlem: A Poem by Walter Dean Myers. *Real Player required.


Book Hive In the Zinger Tales section you can watch online videos of professional storytellers like Jackie Torrence, Doc McConnell, Tony Tallent, and Donna Washington telling traditional folk tales. Provided by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County.


Storynory has a good size collection of interesting children stories. There are original stories as well as classic novels and fairy tales. The educational page has greek myths and Robin Hood stories and some others. The Junior stories page has books for those just learning to read. Downloads are very good quality MP3.

Robert Munsch has about 60 books by Robert Munsch (and read by him) available for download in MP3 format.

BigUniverse Read stories online; create your own!

Project Gutenberg There are nearly 30,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.

Clifford The Big Red Dog Read and listen to several Clifford stories online.

Just One More Book "Each weekday morning, we take a few minutes out of our morning coffee ritual to discuss one of our many favourite children’s books. We also feature weekly interviews with authors, illustrators and experts and enthusiasts in the areas of children’s literature and literacy as well as listener-submiited audio reviews."

Japan - International Library of Children's Literature A collection of digitized historical Japanese children's books. Site is in Japanese.