BOOKs

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 * = __[|2020ok]__ ||= Around 100 books for babies through 12 nicely divided into categories.  ||
 * = __[|AllBooksFree]__ ||= This link has a very nice collection of eBooks for online viewing and listening. Some are also available for download in PDF. These are unique entries that are not available elsewhere.  ||
 * = __[|4tenderheart]__ ||=  They offer unique stories online for reading and also two television readings of Sir Pot stories.  ||
 * = __[|AaronShephard'sWorldof Stories]__ ||= This is a nicely categorized collection of stories from around the world for online reading. The listings give the appropriate age for reading, length of the story and origin.  ||
 * = __[|AlvieTheLittleBrownBurro]__ ||= The link has seven Alvie stories to read online or download in MP3.  ||
 * = __[|AmazingAdventureSeries]__ ||= They offer the children story "June the Prune" for free reading online. The story can also be heard by pressing the audio button at the top of the page.  ||
 * = __[|AmericanFolklore]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">They offer many folk stories from USA, Canada and Mexico as well as Native American for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|AntBee]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Joe Ant and Boo Bee offer nine illustrated books for younger children for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Archive.org (Children's Library)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">There is a large collection of children's books available for online viewing (original books) and download.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ArmenianStoryTeller]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">They have a few Armenian stories and poems available for free reading online.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|BABBooks]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link has 25 free illustrated books available for online reading or listening.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Baby School]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Baby School has a small collection of online flash books for toddlers and young children.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|BaldwinLibraryofChildren'sLiterature]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This library has almost 6,000 classic, but unique, children's books for free viewing online. the ones I looked at had beautiful illustrations. A caution that some of the works are unacceptable by today's standards due to the view of minorities at that time. Not related to the above as far as I can tell.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Baldwin Online Children's Projects]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">520 classic children's books in a variety of genres for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|BBCSchools]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">BBC Schools has three online illustrated books for young children that can be viewed with or without audio.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Bedtime-Story]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link has a large collection of illustrated books for online viewing. Some are classics and others are unique stories separated into unusual categories.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Beenleigh State School]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">They have a variety of Queensland, Australia has a large collection of stories to read online with audio built in.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|BetweentheLions]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">They have a fair number of video books with words for younger readers to follow along. Also some games and other activities for young readers.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|B For Ball]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">B for Ball offers books for online viewing geared to preschoolers. These books cover basics such as alphabet, colors, shapes etc. Thanks to Gretish for this suggestion.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Bibliotastic]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Bibliotastic has an interesting and unique collection of 15 free eBooks in their children's category. These may be viewed online without registration. Free registration is required to download in PDF, KINDLE or EPUB.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|BookBox]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link has about 20 free books available for download in PDF (as a single page) and MP3. Also free games and coloring books.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|BookPop]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">They have a number of illustrated books free for online reading. There are also some coloring pages for download. There are supposed to be music and story downloads, but I kept getting an error when trying to reach those.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|BooksShouldBeFree]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This shortcut has a good size collection of [|__Childrens__] and [|__Fairy Tales__] books available for download in plain text format.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Bored.com (Children's)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Bored.com has 1572 works available for online viewing in their children's section. Searchable by author name and title.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|BritishCouncil]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">British Council has a very nice collection of flash animated song and audio read-a-long stories. Games and other activities also available. Audio may be disabled for reading only.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|BuddhaNet]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Buddha Net offers about 15 Buddhist books for children as well as textbooks and coloring books for download in PDF.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|CandlelightStories]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link has a good number of stories from the Arabian nights collection as well as other story books available for online reading.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|CBeebies]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This shortcut is a BBC site that offers a good number of free stories, in flash, for online reading and listening. Also, has games, music and coloring books.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ChildrensBooksForever]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Children’s Books Forever has a nice collection of books in PDF. Additional comments from Cathy of [|__PuzzlEd__] "I checked out ChildrensBooksForever and the books are just delightful! Gorgeous pictures and some good themes for primary-school kids (anger, bullying etc). Over 20 books available to download and use on computer, Smartboards etc, as well as viewing online (and in quite a variety of languages, too, apparently). Excellent for school or home use."  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Children's Books Online]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Children’s Books Online is an excellent collection (600+) of illustrated antique children's books for viewing online. They are also available for download at a fee. This little gem was suggested by an anonymous poster.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Children'sLibrary.org]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> They have a large collection of books for online viewing. Many appear to be unique classic works that are finely illustrated. Books can be filtered by age, length and fiction/non-fiction.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ChildrenStory]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Children Story offers a nice collection of fairy tales for online viewing as well as Bible stories and coloring books.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ChildrensStories]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Children’s Stories offers 6 free works by Elisa Gianoncelli. 2 are for children 7 and older, 1 for children 6 to 9 and 3 for children under 6.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Childrenstory]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link offers a smaller collection of fairy tales, nursery rhymes and holiday stories. There is also a story that was written and illustrated by 2d grader children. Caution that many of the other links lead to items for sale.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ChildStoryTeller]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Child Story Teller has a good number of short stories and nursery rhymes for reading online. No illustrations to speak of and most of the stories are classics that can be found elsewhere, but there are a few unique entires here.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Classic Literature Library (Fairy Tales)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Small collection, but a nice collection of the Oz and Peter Pan books along with Lewis Carroll's children's books available for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Classicly]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Classicly has a nice collection of free books for children and young readers. Most are available for download in PDF, kindle or MP3 (audiobook). The Young Reader Collection only lists four books, but if you click on links in the introductory paragraph, you will be taken to other works. Thanks to Tyler G for this suggestion.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ClassicReader (Young Readers)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Several hundred classic books for young readers available for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|CyberKids]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Cyber Kids offers free books, written by children, for online viewing. Unique collection divided into several genre categories. Also offers some interactive stories, music and activities.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|DLTK-Teach]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> DLTK-Teach offers free printable children's books. Most are geared towards pre-schoolers, including a set on the alphabet, but there are some stories for older children also. Suggested by Cathy of [|__PuzzlEd.__]  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|EasyMediaBroadcast]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link has a nice little collection of classic children's books with many of Beatrix Potter's works. The works are available for download in TK3 and as .exe. Downloads were a bit slow, but the quality of the works was very good.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|e-booksDirectory]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">E-books Directory has some classic children's books available for online viewing and some for download. Some are the usual classics, but also some unusual entries here.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|eduplace]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Edu Place offers 14 "leveled" books for online reading or printing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ePubBooks]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link has an interesting collection of classic fairy tale books, with some unique entries. These are available for free download in EPUB.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ePubBud]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">They have several hundred free books available in EPUB. These are divided into categories, mostly by age. These appear to be a mix of classic and original and unpublished works. You can also create your own book to post there. Thanks to lala for this suggestion.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ETextCenter]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">The electronic text center of the University of Virginia has a large collection of works for children and young adults available for online viewing. These are classic works and many are available elsewhere, but there are some unique ones. Books are sorted by author name.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|FableLibrary]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Fable Library has an interesting and unique collection of childrens works. Most are available for viewing online, including some flash versions. But a few are available for download. Suggested by Cathy of [|__PuzzlEd.__]  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|FarmhouseFables]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Farm House Fables offers 5 short story books about the little creatures that have made their home in the meadow next to the old farmhouse.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Feedbooks (Fairy Tales)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Feedbooks has a small but unique collection of fairy tale books from around the globe available for download in Kindle, ePub and PDF.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Fiction eBooks (Children's Illustrated)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">8 of Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books very nicely illustrated.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|FictionPress]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Fiction Press has 2695 free works in its Kids Fiction Archive. These appear to be original and unpublished works and most are short stories. These are available for free reading online.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|FloridaDisaster.org]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link offers three books on hazardous weather for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade readers in download in PDF.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|GailSpencerLamm]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This shortcut offers her illustrated eBook, Emily's Patience, for free online viewing or download.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Geronimo's Adventures]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Geronimo’s Adventures features 9 good size books on the adventures of  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Geronimo the teddy bear for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Giraffian]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Giraffian offers a nice collection of books for pre-schoolers, covering the alphabet, numbers colors and other topics. Suggested by Cathy of [|__PuzzlEd.__]  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|GoldenGems]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">A large collection of little golden books and other illustrated books for children for  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> online viewing and saving as JPG.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|GoodnightStories]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Good Night Stories is a nice little collection of unique children stories for reading online. A good number of the stories were written by children. Some other activities and printable coloring pages are also available.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Google Book Search (Fairy Tales)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> 578 works for online viewing, from the 1850s-1920s.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Grammaropolis]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">A large collection of books, videos, songs and games to help children learn proper grammar.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Gutenberg (Children's)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Large collection divided into sub-categories available for download in several formats.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Hiyah]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Hiyah offers some reading skills software for children 18 months to 6 years of age, which may also be used online without download. Thanks to bowhunter1951 for this suggestion.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|InklessTales]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Inkless Tales offers 15 stories for online viewing as well as games, poems and activities.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|International Children's Digital Library]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">A nice collection of children's books from around the world in a variety of languages and nicely categorized, available for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Joggoon]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Joggoon has 30 classic children novels available for free reading online. There are some unique listings here.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Johnnie's Story Page]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Johnnie’s Story Page most of these are links offsite, but it is a very nice collection and well sorted for beginning and more advanced readers. All the ones I looked at were flash presentations and also had audio available.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Kellscraft (Children's Books)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">A nice collection (100) of of children’s books from the 1890s-1920s.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|KidsKnowIt]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Kids Know It is not a book site, but it does have a lot of reading for children,  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">along with educational puzzles and games.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|KidsNurseryRhymes]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link is a British site featuring over 1200 nursery rhymes for online viewing. Also has sing along rhymes (must have midi player-available there) and some nursery rhyme disco recordings available for download in MP3.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Kidspace]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">A small collection of children’s books, available for online viewing, from the Internet Public Library.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|KidsPages]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Kids Pages offers free illustrated eBooks for reading online as well as other learning activities for younger children. These stories are generally classic children stories.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|KidStoriesOnline]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This shortcut offers free stories online (with optional audio), free eBooks, audio books and videos. Some require providing an email, but most are available to all.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Kindersite]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">They offer a good number of stories in flash for reading and listening online as well as lullabies,  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">music and games for younger children.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Knowledgerush]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It has a small, but interesting, collection with a good listing of Oz and Tom Swift books, along with some other classics for viewing online. Also a [|__young adults__] section.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|LearningIsland]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Nice collection of children's books available for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|LearningPage]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Learning Page has a series (38) of printable "Tommy" story books suitable for about 8-10-year-olds, plus some other printable books, for free. Requires free registration. Suggested by Cathy of [|__PuzzlEd.__]  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|LibraryofCongress]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Maintains a nice collection of classic children's books in its Childrens Literature collection of its Rare Book section. these are available for online reading and download in PDF.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">These are illustrated copies and are a nice mix of well known and unusual.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|LilFingers Storybooks]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Small collection of books for very young children for reading and being read to.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|LongLongTimeAgo]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Long, Long Time A Go is a large collection of fables, myths, folk tales, fairy tales and more from around the world. These are available for reading online.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Magickeys]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Magic Keys is small, but interesting and unusual, collection for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ManyBooks (Young Readers)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> 2390 books available for online viewing or download in an extremely large variety of formats.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|MemoWare (Children's eBooks)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">686 books available for download in varying formats.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|MerpyStories]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Merpy Stories offers several animated flash stories, with accompanying music, for online viewing. The unique stories of Merpy, Jeremy Dragonfly and Rufus the Firefly available in English and Spanish. Other activities available.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Michael Hardgrove]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It offers his illustrated book, "The Echo and the Pixie" for free reading online.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Mightybook]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link is a pay site, but it offers a good size collection of very interesting and free flash animation storybooks, story songs, Beatrix Potter stories and more. I thought the music and art section,  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> which combines classical music and art, was a very good idea.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Munsey's (Children Books)]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> 2283 free books available in HTML or a good variety of downloads.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Munsey'sMobile]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Munsey’s Mobile has over 2000 free books in its Children's category. These are all available for free viewing online and are also available for download in PDF, PRC and ePub. These appear to be different works than those available on the regular Munsey's site, above.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|MuseumofUnnaturalHistory]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It has a small collection of illustrated childrens' stories for online viewing.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">These are unique stories not found elsewhere.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|MysteryNetKids]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Mystery Net Kids has a good collection size of mysteries for children to solve. There are 28 "Solve-It" stories, 29 "Chiller" stories from the Darkmaster, 28 "Quick Solve" stories, 28 Magic Tricks and 21 mystery stories written by children that won the mystery writing contest at the site.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|PBSKids]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">PBS Kids has a few read along stories as well as several short educational videos for young children.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|PlanetOzKids]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link has an interesting collection of stories relating to myths about animals. Also available are detective stories to work along with. All available for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ProfessorGarfield]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Professor Garfield offers 11 free books for beginner readers. These are nicely illustrated and are read in their "toon reader". There is an option to have the book read aloud using human voices as the child reads. Interesting and unique collection. Available in several languages. Other activities also available at the site.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|PuzzlEd]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">PuzzlEd is not a book site, but has links to sites offering free books (which will be incorporated here when I have time) and a collection of jigsaw and other puzzles and other activities for children.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|RIF Reading Planet]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It has an interesting collection of books for online viewing that changes monthly. Also has activities and games as well as Asian/Pacific, Caribbean, Hispanic and native American sections with books and activities.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Robert Munsch]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link has about 60 books by Robert Munsch for reading online and  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">read by him available for download in MP3 format.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|RodCockle]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Rod Cockle offers a nice collection of illustrated books for online viewing, as well as games and puzzles for 4-8 year olds. Suggested by Cathy of [|__PuzzlEd.__]  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Room108KidsStories]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">They offer about 25 animated stories, with accompanying music, for reading online.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">These are unique stories not found elsewhere.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Scholastic]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Small collection of children's books available for online viewing (or read to you). Featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog, Alice in Wonderland and a couple of others.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Scholastic Mini-books]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It has a good selection of stories available to read or print, many of which are free.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Suggested by Cathy of [|__PuzzlEd.__]  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|SebastianSwan]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">A large collection of Sebastian Swan stories for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Shay's Imagination]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Shay’s Imagination offers the unique stories and poems of Shay for online reading or download in PDF.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|SillyBooks]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Silly Books has a number of free books available for online reading. There are also puzzles, games and contests.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Smashwords]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Smash Words has over 300 free eBooks for free online viewing or download in a variety of formats. These are generally unpublished works and unique to this site. The site does also offer books for purchase,  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">but all the works in this list are available for free.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Starfall]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It has online flash presentations designed for first graders to entertain and educate.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|StoriesForChildren]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Stories For Children has 8 Christmas stories by Carolyn Rogers for online viewing and  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">apparently some woodland creature stories soon to come.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|StoriesForMyLittleSister]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Stories For My Little Sister is a collection of original stories written by a big sister for her little sister. Interesting collection of illustrated stories and also other activites.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|StoriestoGrowBy]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> This link has a large collection of folk and fairy tales for children from around the world for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|StoryPlace Elementary]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This shortcut has six stories and related activities for online viewing geared for elementary school age children.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|StoryPlace PreSchool]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It has a nice collection of books and activities designed for pre-schoolers available for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|StoryTimeForMe]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> A nice site with unique entries aimed for toddlers through 2d grade.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Interesting combination of old fashioned animated book and flash video.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|SurLaLuneFairyTales]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It offers a very nice and large collection of fairy tales from around the world for online reading.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Talwwins]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Talwwins has a interesting mix of classics and original books for children available  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">for free viewing online or for free download in PDF.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|TheManorSchool]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">The Manor School offers a collection of Greek myths and legends for online viewing.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Featured within the stories is the artwork of children of the school.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|TheMoonlitRoad]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It has 11 stories for children for online reading. A mix of ghost stories, folktales,  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">myths and legends from the American South.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ThePomplemousse]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link has three original stories about the adventures of Pomplemousse, intended for children and adults.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Tikiri]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Tikiri has a nice collection of Sri Lankan stories available in English and Sinhalese available as PDF.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|ToddlerSchool]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">A small collection of illustrated books to read and listen to online.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Also it has educational games for younger children. Suggested by Sefi  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Tonight'sBedtimeStory]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This link offers 79 classic fairy tales for download or online viewing in PDF.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|uMassAmherstAesop'sFables]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">They offer a collection of Aesop's fables, with illustrations from students in the  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Computing in the Fine Arts course for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|WackyWebTales]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Wacky Web Tales offers a good size collection of short tales for 3rd graders and above.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Geared to help with parts of speech.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|Web-Books]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Web-Books has 92 free classic children's novels. These are all available to read free online or for download in WEB and WEB database. Viewing the downloads requires  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">their [|__Web Viewer__](free) which is clean as far as I can tell  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|WebPop]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">It has a very interesting collection of unique and nicely illustrated books  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">available for online reading, listening and download.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|WiredForBooks]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Wired For Books has a nice collection of Beatrix Potter books as well  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> as a few others for online reading and also available in audio.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|WorldofTales]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> A collection of folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world available for online viewing.  ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__[|YourBedtimeStory]__ ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">There are not a lot of stories and the stories are not very long, but this site does have a nice twist that you can personalize the story. There are also coloring pages along with the stories.  ||