The same beloved story of the adventures of a young horse that we all know and love, but rewritten by the author for young people. All of the pathos, tenderness and fun are still there, just written for a younger audience. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect.

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Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide, and was feted by royalty. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyr, or "fantastic tales"—express themes that transcend age and nationality.

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A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories.

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A collection of eighteen fairy tales by famous Danish author H.C. Andersen. Andersen's fairy tales present lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well.

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The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's most famous children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality.

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This book, written in the mid-19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, introduces topics in science for children.

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A playful and beautiful fairy tale By Henry Beston. Both audiobook format and the full text are available as a free download.

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The story may reflect a historical event in which Hamelin lost its children. Theories have been proposed suggesting that the Pied Piper is a symbol of the children's death by plague or catastrophe. 

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The title of a serialized collection of twelve fantasy stories with illustrations by L. Frank Baum. Audiobook format is available simultaneously with a free eBook publication download.

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Alice in Wonderland travels on a boring day with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Cheshire Cat to Blunderland. 

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This is a story about the adventures of a little girl named Dot and a little boy named Tot in a land reached by floating on a river that flowed through a tunnel. The land was called Merryland and was split into seven valleys.

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The Adventures of Pinocchio is a children's novel. Pinocchio is known for having a short nose that becomes longer when he is under stress (chapter 3), especially while lying.

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A princess have been cursed by a wicked witch, her evil aunt. The curse placed on this princess is an unusual one: it removes all the princess's gravity. What can break the curse before the princess floats away? Perhaps the best thing for her would be to fall in love, but how a person with no gravity can fall in anything is just the problem.

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Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a castle in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid. Irene has never known about the existence of the goblins, which lurk in the underground mines but her nursemaid Lootie does know about them. These goblins are grotesque and hideous beings, who centuries ago were human, but for various reasons, they were driven underground to become malformed and distorted by their new lifestyle.

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The sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Alice in a land when she walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House. The land is full of mythological creatures and characters and nursery rhyme characters. Alice makes a guest appearance in a bizarre game of chess with Humpty Dumpty!

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Alice in Wonderland is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

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Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, contain the best in children's literature, stories, poems and nursery rhymes. They progress in difficulty through the different volumes - this first being intended for the youngest audience.

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Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, contain the best in children's literature, stories, poems and nursery rhymes. They progress in difficulty through the different volumes - this first being intended for the youngest audience.

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Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the third volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones.

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Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the first volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, contain the best in children's literature, stories, poems and nursery rhymes. They progress in difficulty through the different volumes - this first being intended for the youngest audience.

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Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the first volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, contain the best in children's literature, stories, poems and nursery rhymes. They progress in difficulty through the different volumes - this first being intended for the youngest audience.

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The Goody-Naughty Book originally published as two books back to back. Opening the book from one end, the reader experiences "The Goody Side" where the children are polite and thoughtful. When turning the book over and beginning from the other side, one reads "The Naughty Side" where the children are lazy and irritable. Each short moral story teaches children the proper way to behave and that there are consequences if they do not.

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Chidren's classic short stories in an easy to read format online and a playlist for optional audio to match each story. Audiobook format is available simultaneously with a free ebook to download.

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Frog rides to ask Miss Mouse to marry him. She is willing but must ask permission of Uncle Rat.

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The Little Pig Who Went to Market. There was once a family of Five Little Pigs, and Mrs. Pig, their mother, loved them all very dearly.

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A colorful picture book with the alphabet and illustrations.

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An illustrated short children's story and rhymes.

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A book of rhyming poems and illustrations of classic mythological beasts.

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The story of a dear good little girl called Curly Locks.

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A book about animals with illustrations and rhymes for children.

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A children's book comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children.

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A picture book with illustrations.

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"Twinkle and her friend Chubbins go to have a picnic near a prairie dog village. The prairie dogs talk to the children, and the children are magically shrunk down to prairie-dog size so they can enter the village. Inside, they meet a well-to-do family and the mayor of the prairie dog village. The two children are returned to their normal size, and wonder if the whole adventure was simply a dream.

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A colorful picture book with illustrations.

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Children's classic literature in a picture book format.

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An old English folk tale with colorful illustrations about a little red hen living in a barnyard. She spends almost all of her time walking about the barnyard.

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We have posted some rare picture books for children this month. This is a colorful collection and you are free to view, share, and download.

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This is an English nursery rhyme.

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A short story collection of events about a little boy learning a lesson for that day, who receives a reward without knowing it will happen.

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It is a cumulative tale that does not tell the story of Jack's house, or even of Jack who built the house, but instead shows how the house is indirectly linked to other things and people, and through this method tells the story of "The man all tattered and torn", and the "Maiden all forlorn", as well as other smaller events, showing how these are interlinked.

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A fun classic letters-of-the-alphabet includes a selection of short stories, Sing-A-Song of Sixpence, The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go, The Three Little Pigs, Puss In Boots, and The Ugly Duckling.

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Shadow picture pages contain different ink splotches that are coupled with well-known stories. The book also explains how to make the inkblot monsters. Back then, making images from inkblots was better known as Klecksography; Rorschach would create the first systematic approach to interpreting inkblots in 1921.

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The Rocket Book begins when the son of a building superintendent sets a match to a rocket he discovered in the basement.

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A lovely picture book for children with colorful illustrations and using poetry and rhymes to tell six short stories about puppies.

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A free collection of nursery rhymes in an easy to read child friendly format with illustrations.

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The mother rabbit cautions her young against entering a vegetable garden.

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This a colorful illustrated short story of a little boy who lived in a beautiful white house, an outside garden with a jungle stretched for miles and miles and in the jungle were all sorts of beast and birds.

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A beautiful illustration of animal stories for children with an index linking to over 80 different types and names.

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The Slant Book is literally the shape of a parallelogram, with the spine of the book running down one side. When opened, facing pages form a "V" shape.

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This is a great collection of short stories and poems some well known others not so well known and something to appeal to everyone.

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The story popularized the phrase "goody two-shoes", often used to describe an excessively virtuous person, a do-gooder. Goody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of Goody Two-Shoes, the nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell, who goes through life with only one shoe. When a rich gentleman gives her a complete pair, she is so happy that she tells everyone she has "two shoes".

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A picture book series of novel and amusing figures formed by the hand.

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This book contains verse for young and old. It is full of fantastic stories, breathtaking images, and brilliant rhymes. Including classics from "The Duel" to "The Delectable Ballad of Walter Lot," the author, a devout Christian, keeps his religious overtones to a minimum.

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The Kitten's Garden of Verses is a book of short poetry, modeled after Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.

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Laughable Lyrics is the fourth book of nonsense poems, songs, botany and music by Edward Lear. It includes additional files, sheet music .pdf, .midi, Llilypond markup.

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A pictorial book in verses & colored designs by Walter Crane will amuse children.

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Jean de La Fontaine is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages. La Fontaine fables were regarded as providing an excellent education in morals for children.

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Beloved by many generations of children, A Child's Garden of Verses is a beautiful collection of children's poetry. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes whimsical, but always fun.

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It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit and his quest to become real through the love of his owner.

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On the night of Christmas a boy and a girl, Tyltil and Mytil, are visited by Fairy Berilyuna. Fairy's granddaughter is sick and can only be saved by the Blue Bird. Thanks to the Fairy's magic gift children have the opportunity to see the soul of things. Inanimate objects Clocks, Fire, Water, Bread, Sugar, Milk transformed into beings with their own character. Together, they set off on a dangerous journey for the fabulous Blue Bird.

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This is a collection of 6 delightful stories about children by some of the best authors of the period: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Maria Edgeworth and Alicia Catherine Mant. These stories are well written and although they feature children and their escapades, clearly can be enjoyed by adults as well if not more.

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Bunyip Bluegum the koala sets out on his travels taking only a walking stick. At about lunchtime, feeling more than slightly peckish, he meets Bill Barnacle the sailor and Sam Sawnoff the penguin who are eating a pudding. The pudding is a magic one which, no matter how much you eat it, always reforms into a whole pudding again. Named Albert, this pudding has thin arms and legs and is a bad-tempered, ill-mannered so-and-so into the bargain. His only pleasure is being eaten.

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The story of a domestic duck whose eggs are routinely confiscated by the farmer's wife.

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A short tale of Pelleas, Mr. Maeterlinck's young bulldog. It is an insight into the being of Mr. Maeterlinck dog and explains the saying that the dog is man's best friend. Illustrated.

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The Woggle-Bug favors flashy clothes with bright colors (he dresses in "gorgeous reds and yellows and blues and greens" and carries a pink handkerchief), falls in love with a gaudy "Wagnerian plaid" dress that he sees on a mannequin in a department store window.

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The Just So Stories for little children are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasized original stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works.

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"These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work. If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in these common blossoms, their old friend will not have made her Garland in vain." - L.M. Alcott, September, 1887

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The story of a stuffed elephant and the little boy who owns him, his sister, and all their adventures.

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This is a collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott that were written with the intent to entertain the whole family and to fill children's heads with wonder and delight.

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The Candy Rabbit wakes up one morning to find his destiny has arrived. He is part of a wonderful Easter display at the toy shop in which he lives and at any moment the customers will arrive! He has many little adventures, makes new friends and catches up with old friends along the way.

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Cap'n Bill and Trot journey to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, the former ruler of Oz, overthrow the villainous King Krewl of Jinxland. Cap'n Bill and Trot had previously appeared in two other novels by Baum, The Sea Fairies and Sky Island. Based in part upon the 1914 silent film, His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz. This was allegedly L. Frank Baum's personal favourite Oz book.

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When the professor decides to outline the ancestry of the eminent people of Oz, Scarecrow feels left out. He doesn't have a family tree - unless you count the bean pole on which he had been placed when the farmer put him in the cornfield! So he decides to seek out his roots which leads him, Dorothy, and the Cowardly Lion on adventures they never dreamed, meeting new friends (and foes) along the way.

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Dorothy meets the Shaggy Man, and while trying to find the road to Butterfield, they get lost on an enchanted road. As they travel they meet the rainbow's daughter, Polychrome, and a little boy, Button-Bright. They have all sorts of strange adventures on the way to Oz.

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A little farm girl named Dorothy and her pet dog, Toto, get swept away into the Land of Oz by a Kansas cyclone. Upon her arrival, she is hailed as a sorceress, liberates a living Scarecrow, meets a man made entirely of tin, and a Cowardly Lion. But all Dorothy really wants to know is how does she get home again. The ruler of Oz, the great Wizard, who resides in an Emerald City, may be the only one powerful enough to help her. (Also reprinted by various publishers under the names The New Wizard of Oz and The Wizard of Oz with occasional minor changes in the text. It was originally written as a one-shot book).

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Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em come to live in Oz permanently. While they tour through the Quadling Country, the Nome King is tunneling beneath the desert to invade Oz. This was originally intended to be the last book in the series.

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A little boy, Tip, escapes from his evil guardian, the witch Mombi, with the help of a walking wooden figure with a jack-o'-lantern head named Jack Pumpkinhead (brought to life with the magic Powder of Life Tip stole from Mombi), as well as a living Sawhorse (created from the same powder). Tip ends up on an adventure with the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman to help Scarecrow to recapture his throne from General Jinjur's army of girls.

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Ruggedo, former Nome King, tries to conquer Oz again with the help of a Munchkin boy, Kiki Aru. Meanwhile, it is also Ozma's birthday, and all of Oz's citizens are searching for the most unusual present for the little princess. This was published a month after Baum's death.

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When Princess Ozma mysteriously disappears, four search parties are sent out, one for each of Oz's four countries. Most of the book covers Dorothy and the Wizard's efforts to find her. Meanwhile, Cayke the Cookie Chef discovers that her magic dishpan (on which she bakes her famous cookies) has been stolen. Along with the Frogman, they leave their mountain in Winkie Country to find the pan.

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Betsy Bobbin, a girl from Oklahoma, is shipwrecked with her mule, Hank, in the Rose Kingdom of Oz. She meets the Shaggy Man there and the two try to rescue the Shaggy Man's brother from the Nome King. This book is partly based upon Baum's stage musical, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, which was in turn based on Ozma of Oz.

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The twelfth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum and was originally published on May 13, 1918. The Tin Woodman is unexpectedly reunited with his Munchkin sweetheart Nimmie Amee from the days when he was flesh and blood. This was a back-story from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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A Munchkin boy named Ojo must find a cure to free his Uncle Nunkie from a magical spell that has turned him into a statue. With the help of Scraps, an anthropomorphic patchwork doll, Ojo journeys through Oz to save his uncle.

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The Little Wizard Stories were geared toward younger children and were originally published separately. Each Little Wizard Story revolves around the adventures of two famous Oz characters, and their humorous adventures in and around the Land of Oz.

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This was Baum's last Oz book, and was published posthumously and most critics agree this is Baum's darkest Oz book, most likely due to his failing health.

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Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink and their companions have adventures that lead to the land of the Nomes and, eventually, Oz. Baum originally wrote this book as a non-Oz book entitled King Rinkitink.

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On her way back from Australia, Dorothy visits her cousin, Zeb, in California. They are soon swallowed up by an earthquake, along with Zeb's horse Jim and Dorothy's cat Eureka. The group soon meets up with the Wizard and all travel underground back to Oz.

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While traveling to Australia with her Uncle Henry, Dorothy is swept overboard with a hen named Billina. They land in Ev, a country across the desert from Oz, and, together with new-found mechanical friend Tik-Tok, they must save Ev's royal family from the evil Nome King. With Princess Ozma's help, they finally return to Oz.

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Uncle Wiggily Longears is a loveable rabbit who suffers from rheumatism and has many woodland friends and innocent adventures. These gentle tales are 7 - 8 minutes each and quite suited to a nightly reading to a small child.

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In this collection, the loveable old rabbit visits other childhood friends from the "Alice In Wonderland" stories, once he discovers his rheumatism is not bothering him so much one day and he feels the need for adventure. These gentle tales are 7 - 8 minutes each and quite suited to a nightly reading to a small child.

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Uncle Wiggily's rheumatism is very bad, Dr. Possum prescribes a journey to help him move around, have a change of air, and a good long bout of traveling to get more exercise. So Uncle Wiggily packs his valise and sets forth! These gentle tales are 7 - 8 minutes each and quite suited to a nightly reading to a small child.

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In this collection, the loveable old rabbit stays close to home and visits woodland friends. These gentle tales are 7 - 8 minutes each and quite suited to a nightly reading to a small child.

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Uncle Wiggily Longears, an old bunny gentleman now stricken with rheumatism and getting around with a cane, still is quite active. In these stories, he encounters a string of characters from Mother Goose's tales and has adventures that are not quite in keeping with her books! These gentle tales are 7 - 8 minutes each and quite suited to a nightly reading to a small child.

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