Children & Young Adult Reading

The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder tales

The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales is a curated anthology that gathers a wide range of…

A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This work is a collection of six Greek myths reshaped for a youthful audience, presented as a series of…

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

L. Frank Baum

The work is a fanciful juvenile fantasy that recounts the origins of Santa Claus as a mythic saga.

The Boy's Book of New Inventions

Harry E. Maule

Harry E. Maule’s The Boy’s Book of New Inventions is a survey of recent technological breakthroughs written…

English Literature for Boys and Girls

H. E. Marshall

Marshall’s English Literature for Boys and Girls is a sweeping survey of the origins and evolution of English…

How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell

Sara Cone Bryant

The book is a practical guide for teachers, librarians and anyone who wishes to use oral storytelling with…

Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk

Robert Ford

Robert Ford’s compilation presents a sweeping survey of Scotland’s children’s folklore, gathered from “wide…

The Lost Prince

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Lost Prince opens in a bleak London quarter, Philibert Place, where rows of soot‑blackened houses loom…

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Two Bad Mice is a whimsical juvenile story that begins with a quiet nursery where two dolls,…

The Shakespeare Story-Book

Macleod, Mary; Shakespeare, William

The Shakespeare Story‑Book is a nineteenth‑century adaptation that retells the plots of twenty of…

Tales from Shakespeare

Lamb, Charles; Lamb, Mary

The volume is a collection of simplified retellings of Shakespeare’s plays, intended for very young readers.

The Youngest Girl in the School

Evelyn Sharp

The novel is a juvenile‑fiction portrait of life in an English boarding school, told through the noisy,…

Grammar-land; Or, Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire

M. L. Nesbitt

Grammar‑land, Or, Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom‑shire is a whimsical juvenile fantasy that…

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Selma Lagerlöf

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a Swedish fantasy tale aimed at young readers, weaving together themes of…

The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes

The volume presents a sweeping anthology of nursery rhymes, beginning with a scholarly preface that traces…

The Strange Adventures of a Pebble

Hallam Hawksworth

The book is a juvenile‑focused work of natural‑science storytelling that treats geology and physical…

The Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter

The Tailor of Gloucester is a short Christmas‑time tale that blends the practical concerns of a struggling…

Voices for the Speechless Selections for Schools and Private Reading

The volume is a medley of sermons, poems, and moral essays that rally the reader to consider the suffering of…

Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories

The volume opens with a tangled court intrigue in which a princess is forced to exchange her royal garments…

The Green Fairy Book

The Green Fairy Book is the third and, as its editor suggests, likely final volume in a series of…

Robert Merry's Museum, Volumes V-VI (1843)

Various

Robert Merry’s Museum, Volumes V‑VI (1843) is a Victorian children’s periodical that blends moral instruction…

FreeChildrenStories.com Collection

Daniel Errico

The collection gathers a lively assortment of children’s poems and short stories, each introduced by a bold,…

Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Lewis Carroll

Ce texte est une fiction fantastique destinée aux jeunes lecteurs, où l’on suit les premières aventures…

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

Beatrix Potter