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- The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator)
- A.A. Milne's classics, Winnie-the-Pooh and The
House at Pooh Corner, are brought together in this beautiful
edition. Join Pooh and the gang as they meet a Heffalump, help
get Pooh unstuck from Rabbit's doorway, (re)build a house for
Eeyore, and try to unbounce Tigger.
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- Lewis Carroll : The Complete Illustrated Works
: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snark
by Lewis Carroll
- Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His
stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations
of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood,
he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the
Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation
in each installment.
- A Bear Called Paddington
by Michael Bond, Peggy Fortnum (Illustrator)
- The Browns first meet Paddington on a railway platform in
London. He is sitting on a battered suitcase, wearing an odd-looking
hat and a sign around his neck that reads, "Please look
after this bear. Thank you." And that is just what they
do.
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Books,
Bountiful Books
Download free kids books and read children's literature online.
Listen to stories with audio programs.
Award-Winning
Children' Books
Help support A to Z by purchasing top books for your children
through this link to Amazon.com.
Hogwarts Distance Learning Program
for Homeschoolers
AN A TO Z COMMUNITY
A free virtual learning webpage and email list and where you
can role play that you are a student at the Hogwarts School For
muggles, from the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling.
I want to listen
to a good story
Read Along eBooks in English or Spanish for Young Readers
AN A TO Z RESOURCE
Beautiful eBooks to read to young children, or allow them to read about science and math through literature. From Sylvan Dell.
Activated Stories
These podcasts feature multicultural folktales and stories from
the perpetual travels of this homeschool family.
Eat,
My Fine Coat
Every culture has its folk heroes. In Turkey, there are many
stories about a folk hero named Nasreddin Hoca. A story about
not judging people by how they are dressed.
Kiddie Records
Weekly
A two year project celebrating the golden age of children's records.
Before iPods, children used to listen to stories on 78 RPM records.
Now, you can download these stories and list on any Mp3 player.
Some of the stories have online books, and you can follow along.
Literal Systems
A free literary audio book service. We record unabridged spoken
word treatments of classic literature and poetry and produce
MP3 files of the performances. Always ask a parent before you
download files.
Mercury Theatre
on the Air
Gather 'round your computer, my children, as kids did in the
days of early radio, and listen to tales that will ignite your
imagination. RealAudio needed, and a fairly fast connection.
Stories
Read by Chuck Brown
The Fantabulous Cumulo-Nimbuli Pump: My first story, written
in a Dr. Seuss style. It's about a special vacuum that sucks
up clouds! The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian
Andersen, and The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams.
Listen with Real Audio.
Storyline Online
Members of the Screenactors Guild reading children's stories.
StoryNory - Children's Story Podcast
A free audio story every week read by an English actress. This library of over 75 sudio stories: fairy stories, classic children's literature, Greek Myths, fables, and original stories.
See also: Radio Online and Talking Books.
I'm a little
kid. I just want a story.
Beantime Stories
Tippity Witchet loves to tell stories and is happy to see them.
She invites the children to pick ripe jellybeans from her garden
to eat while she tells her tales. For preschool and primary listeners
and readers.
Beatrix Potter
- Kids Corner
Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin and other favorite stories online,
illustrated. A delightful read!
Free
Illustrated Bible Stories
And funny books for kids online. Beautifully illustrated, sometimes
with animation, easy to read, favorite chidren's Bible stories.
Grumpy
Mr. Grady
Mr. Grady does not like kids, and now a family of 4 homeschoolers
has moved next door! Read online, download an print the pdf,
or buy the book by homeschool dad, Scott Stroud.
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
"How the Whale Got His Throat", "How the Camel
Got His Hump", "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin",
"How the Leopard Got His Spots", and other favorite
tales. Do you believe them? What does it mean to have a good
imagination?
Paddington Bear:
The Official Site
Everything you ever wanted to know about the famous bear from
Darkest Peru and his creator, Michael Bond. From Paddington Bear
games to a Paddington Bear bulletin board, there is something
here to please Paddington fans of all ages.
Story
Hour On The Internet Public Library
A selection of illustrated stories for little children.
I want
to find books to read online
The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project
Nursery Rhymes, Fables, Folk Tales, Myths, Legends and Hero Stories, Literary Fairy Tales, Bible Stories, Nature Stories, Biography, History, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Games, and Craft Activities.
Bartleby's Great Books
Online
Great fiction, non-fiction, verse and reference books. All searchable.
Includes The King's James Bible, dictionaries, presidential inaugural
addresses, and much, much more.
Bibliomania
Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular
fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research
and religious texts.
Book Hive
We have been as busy as bees reviewing a hive-full of children's
books for you to enjoy. Choose a category from the list to hear
the buzz on some great books, or use the BookHive search tool
to search our book review database.
Bookworm
Hundreds of reviews of favorite and new books. The site also
has links for writing to your favorite authors at their publishers'
addresses.
byGosh.com
Free illustrated kid's stories, short stories, poems, novels,
nonfiction.
Carol Hurst's Children
Literature Site
Locate books by themes or across the curriculum.
Children's
Books
Poetry and prose originally intended for, or predominantly adopted
by, children, written by women through the centuries.
Classics at
the Online Literature Library
Collection of the world's greatest literature, by author: Aesop,
Brontes, Darwin, Dickens, London, Poe, Shelley, Twain, Verne,
HG Wells, and more. Free to read online or download and print
out.
Kids
Books
Sorted by topics, this is a site of book reviews by and for children
of all ages.
New York Public Library
"On Lion" for Kids
Almost like being there in New York City in the children's section
of the public library.
Project
Gutenberg
Select a book by author or title. A new browser window appears,
and you can read book online or save.
Send me to
a real wonderful book site online!
Alice
In Wonderland
An interactive adventure. Read
the book here, with original illustrations.
The Hole
Truth (and Nothing But the Truth)
An interactive unit study based on Louis Sachar's book, Holes,
created by a team of 6 homeschoolers for ThinkQuest.
Katrinka,
The Story of a Russian Child
Life turns hard for Katrinka when her parents and their printing
press suddenly disappear. By Helen Eggleston Haskell, 1915.
Little
Men
The house seemed swarming with boys, who were beguiling the rainy
twilight with all sorts of amusements. There were boys everywhere,
"up-stairs and down-stairs and in the lady's chamber,"
apparently, for various open doors showed pleasant groups of
big boys, little boys, and middle-sized boys in all stages of
evening relaxation, not to say effervescence. By Louisa May Alcott
Peter
Pan
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will
grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this... You always know after
you are two. Two is the beginning of the end. By James Matthew
Barrie.
Robinson
Crusoe
Daniel Defoe based his classic tale of shipwreck and survival
on an uninhabited island is based on a true story. The real Robinson
Crusoe was a Scotsman named Alexander Selkirk. A searchable book.
The Shadow
Magazine
Only the Shadow knows. Before crime's plans have been put into
being by some master mind of the underworld, word has come to
The Shadow from his agents in far-flung corners of the world
- and The Shadow lays plans to thwart the hordes of evil.
Tales
from Shakespeare
A treasure of a site! The stories of the plays. A wonderful way
to prepare before actually going to see one of Shakespeare's
plays. By Charles and Mary Lamb, 1807, Illustrated by Arthur
Rackham, 1899, 1909.
The
Velveteen Rabbit
The Rabbit looked up at her, and it seemed to him that he had
seen her face before, but he couldn't think where. "I am
the nursery magic Fairy," she said. "I take care of
all the playthings that the children have loved. When they are
old and worn out, and the children don't need them any more,
then I come and take them away with me and turn them into Real."
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- Books Featuring Homeschooled Kids
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- How
My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller
by Julia Devillers
- One of the characters, the very likable and sociable Gabriela,
is homeschooled (as well as her friends). The book is called
How My Private Personal Journal Became a Bestseller and
it got chosen as one of 4 girl-power reads for summer by USA
Today. More info is at www.isflix.com.
Ok, I hate to sound so pluggish, but my twin homeschools her
son and I like you to know that I'm writing away, best, Julia
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- Surviving
the Applewhites
by Stephanie S. Tolan
- By the end of the book, I felt that she had really gotten
it right, especially in spirit - even if the Applewhites are
more interesting, eccentric, creative, and chaotic than most
of us homeschooling families. I liked the fact that the parents
are both flawed and yet wonderful... it made them much more real. Review
by Jennifer Dees with Jessica Chase.
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- New York Times Best Sellers - Children's Literature
- Updated every Friday.
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- Children's Literature
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- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book
7)
- (Hardcover)
Deluxe
Edition
- by J. K. Rowling
- Preorder for arrival July 21, 2007.
- Speculation continues as to which character will die in the
seventh and final chapter of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series.
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- The Freddy Anniversary Collection: The First
Three Freddy Books in One Volume (Brooks, Walter R.,
Freddy Books.)
by Walter R. Brooks, Kurt Wiese, Michael Cart
- The only thing I didn't like about this 3-book collection
was the difficulty in finding a good stopping place after my
voice needed a break from reading it aloud to my kids--they always
begged for "just one more chapter!" No crude language
or gross-out humor here, as is the norm for many contemporary
books published for kids. ~Beth A. Nieman
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- Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling, Barry Moser (Illustrator)
How did the camel get his hump? How did the leopard get his spots?
How did the elephant get his trunk? These are questions that
children around the world have asked for centuries, but it took
Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's lively, hilarious stories
to give them answers.
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