Read and incorporate a variety of Aesop's Fables into a fable genre study with an eBook produced by the Library of Congress. The interactive eBook contains 146 fables written by Aesop and includes colorful interactive illustrations...

Have you ever wanted to read an early edition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol? Experience the next best thing with an eBook version of the novel. From the haunting first words to the jolly send-off in the conclusion, the eBook...

Bring the 1904 version of the classic kid's tale, The Story of the Three Little Pigs to your young readers. With original drawings by L. Leslie Brooke, young reader take a step into a world where pigs can talk and a wolf is big and bad.

When a person is stuck in the wilderness, it helps to have a friend. An eBook version of White Fang by Jack London tells the story of a man and a dog/wolf that becomes his companion. A table of contents outlines each of the five...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the best-known pieces of American literature. An eBook from the Library of Congress provides access to an early edition of the text. Original layout and illustrations are preserved within.

Mary Lennox was a disagreeable little girl; do your scholars relate? An eBook version of The Secret Garden introduces readers to Mary Lennox and tells the story of how she grows to think beyond herself. The digital text includes the...

This is a site for children telling and illustrating the story of Joseph from the Hebrew Scriptures

A detailed presentation illustrating the history of Africans migrating to the Americas from as early as 1500 through the late 1860's. Review the distribution of Africans in North and South America, the initial settlements, escaped and...

Read these beloved classic stories with their original illustrations. 23 books for children, including The Three Little Pigs and Denslow's Humpty Dumpty. 6 novels for teens, including Poe's The Raven and Dickens' A Christmas Carol. All...

Read these beloved classic stories with their original illustrations. 23 books for children, including The Three Little Pigs and Denslow's Humpty Dumpty. 6 novels for teens, including Poe's The Raven and Dickens' A Christmas Carol. All...

The story of the how men hid inside a wooden horse in order to get into the city of Troy. Look at the illustrations and read the text, or click on a button to hear the story read aloud.

Two versions of Aesop's Fable with the same story, but different illustrations. The first provides literal illustrations of the story, while the second provides a more modern interpretation.

Learn about the Banana Festival in this fun online story. Great illustrations and the story is easy for younger children to navigate.

Get a glimpse into the creative mind of Jean de Brunhoff by paging through a maquette, or scale-model manuscript, of his first book about Babar the Elephant. View Brunhoff's hand-drawn illustrations for each manuscript page and view them...

Click through a book to read and view illustrations of the story "Cinderella." Click the links below the book to open word documents with additional activities focusing on the characters, setting, sequencing, illustrations, line...

Be inspired to write your own simple story or poem by choosing a picture from this collection of child-centered illustrations.

This Greek fairy tale shares the story of two kingdoms who were in disagreement over the claim to a river.

Learn about the power of kindness while reading this illustrated fable "The Wind and the Sun." Then read the same story with different illustrations to provide a new point of view.

A click-through story about the power of words and illustrations to open readers' minds to unique ways of looking at the world.

Two retellings of Aesop's Fable "The Goose with the Golden Eggs." Both stories illustrate the same moral, "Greed often overreaches itself." The first is a traditional retelling of the original fable. The second is a modern retelling with...

Two traditional retellings of Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Grapes." The first has literal illustrations of the original fable. The second tells the same story, but has illustrations that give the story a modern setting and characters...

Read two versions of Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Story." Both versions have the same text, but one has traditional illustrations while the other provides a modern interpretation through the illustrations.

Maintained by a group called "A Celebration of Women Writers," this site offers an online text version of Fisher's "Understood Betsy." The story can be linked by individual chapters, and includes illustrations.