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Folktales,
Myths and Legends
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- Folktales,
Myths and Legends
- African, American, Celtic, Russian, Yiddish, Ute,
Eskimo folk tales and others, along with lesson plans, handouts and
activities.
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- African
American Folktales
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More African American Folktale |
- Cambodian
Folktales
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| Fukushima
Folktales |
- Icelandic
Folktales
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- Indian
stories and folktales
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- Indonesian
Folktales
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- Korean
Folktales
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- Japanese
Folktales
- Told in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian
and German
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- Louisiana
Folktales
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- Fauna
Folktales
- Stories about animals
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- Percussion
Folktales
- Stories about drums
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- Aaron
Shepard's Storybook
- Folktales, tall tales, myths and legends retold
by a Los Angeles storyteller and author.
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- Folktales
4 U To Make Your Own
- Annotated for storytellers
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- Beauty
and the Beast
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- Online
Children's Books
- Some from famous books, others available only online.
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Poetry |
- Poetic
Cats
- Poems about cats
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- A
Child's Garden of Verses
- By Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Poetry
Archives
- More than 6,000 poems
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Specific
Authors |
- E-texts
of Works by Dante Alighieri
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- Hans
Christian Anderson
- Click on chronological list.
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| E-Texts
of Works by Jane Austen |
- J.M.
Barrie
- Peter and Wendy (aka Peter Pan)
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- L.
Frank Baum
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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| Lewis
Carroll Texts Online |
- Charles
Dickens
- A Christmas Carol
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- Stories
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- aka Sherlock Holmes
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- Kenneth
Grahame
- The Wind In The Willows
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- O.
Henry
- The Gift of the Magi
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- Rudyard
Kipling
- How The Leopard Got His Spots (Beautifully
illustrated with photos.)
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- Jack
London
- Call of the Wild
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- Tales
of Edgar Allan Poe
- Scroll part way down the page to find the links
to the tales. The poems are here.
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- The
Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Margery
Williams
- The Velveteeen Rabbit
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Collections
of online classics from... |
- Adelaide
University Library
- Hundreds of works; browse by author.
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- African
American Writers
- Mata Angelou, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks,
W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and many more.
Some links contain related information, including lesson plans.
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- Alex
Catalog of Electronic Texts
- A collection of public domain documents from American
and English literature and philosophy. User can convert any of the documents
in the catalog into.pdf files, and download and print such items as
all 259 pages of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Henry David
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience (16 pages), or Joseph Conrad's Heart
of Darkness (74 pages).
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- Bartleby.com
- Tons of online fiction and verse. Search by title
or author.
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- Classics
for Young People
- Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, J.M.
Barrie, L. Frank Baum, Victor Appleton (Tom Swift), Frances Hodgson
Burnett (Little Lord Fauntleroy), Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens,
Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame (The Wind In the Willows),
Kate Greenaway, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O.Henry, Laura Lee Hope, Washington
Irving, W.W. Jacobs (The Monkey's Paw), William Kingston (The
Swiss Family Robinson), Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Lucy Maud
Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) , Miss Mulock (The Little
Lame Prince ), Beatrix Potter, Robert Louis Stevenson, Booth Tarkington,
Mark Twain, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm), Oscar Wilde, Margery Williams (The Velveteen
Rabbit). And that's not all!
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- E-Texts
from Search Engine Sleuth
- Still more links to online texts.
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- The
English Server
- Novels, drama, poetry, short stories, as well as
other interesting links, including one on banned books.
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- Fairy
Tales
- From the University of Maryland collection
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- Georgetown
University
- A new and growing collection, look for Poe, Faulkner,
Dickinson, Twain, Washington Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, and some others,
including some interesting links to the Beats.
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- Great
Literature Online
- Links to works by Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian
Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Jane Austen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Danie
Defoe, Charles Dickens, Bret Harte, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, H.G.
Wells and Walt Whitman.
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- Internet
School Library Media Center
- Links to other collections of literature classics.
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- Internet
Public Library
- Includes the complete
works of Shakespeare as well as 13,000
other titles; search by title or author.
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- Litrix
Reading Room
- Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi, Misfits, The Bard, Westerns,
Antiquities, Mr. Holmes, Ms. Austen and Company, the North (Jack London
and Robert Service.)
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- Luminarium
- Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature
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- Online
Books
- Twelve thousand titles, searchable by title, author
and subject.
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- The
Pagan Library
- This site has the Tanglewood Tales, Aesop's
Fables, the Arabian Nights, and other works. Teachers should
preview this site before using it, inasmuch as some people might find
some of the content questionable.
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- The
Perseus Project
- Ancient Greek and Latin texts and related documents.
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- Project
Gutenberg
- The grandfather of all on-line text sites. A goood
starting place if you're looking for literature online. Search by title
or author.
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- The
English Server
- Works by Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Emily
Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Bulfinch, Willa Cather, Geoffrey Chaucer,
Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Stephan Crane, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens,
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Theodore Dreiser, Eliot, the Brothers Grimm, Thomas
Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Sinclar Lewis, W. Somerset
Maugham, Herman Melville, Walter Scott, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift,
Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Voltaire and that's not
all!
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- Short
Fiction collection includes works by:
- Aesop, Francis Bacon, Ambrose Bierce, Lewis Carroll,
Anton Chekhov, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Roald Dahl, Fyodor Dostoevsky,
O.Henry, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, James Joyce, Fabriel Garcia Marquez,
Rex Stout, Harriet Beecher Stowe, E.B. Whitge, Oscar Wilde and Mary
Wollstonecraft, to mention just a few.
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- The
University of Virginia
- Collection includes works from Edgar Allen Poe,
Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Native American literature, Young People's
Literature (including Aesop's Fables), Women Writers, Joseph Conrad,
Henry Adams, Zane Gray, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, Upton Sinclair
and lots more.
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- Texts for young readers are here
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- Russian
Literature
- You'll have to follow a few links to find works
by Dostoevsky, Pushkin, and a few others.
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Other
Resources
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- Authors
and Illustrators on the Web
- Once they begin reading, they might like to learn
something about the person who wrote it.
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- Corona
Avenue School Reading List
- The teachers selected these links for their students.
Your children might like them, too.
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- Free Phonics Software: The Great Phonics
Adventure
- Explanations and quizzes with clever animations
on consonant blends, diphthongs, affixes, schwas, consonant digraphs,
r-controlled vowels, contractions, compound words, and homonyms and
homographs. Could be useful for students who need extra review.
- Macintosh
version 7.3 MB
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- Online
Stories, Books and Periodicals for Children
- Stories for children and places for children to
write and publish stories from the Internet School Library Media Center.
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- The
End of the Rainbow
- A full text young reader novel by Bjarne Reuter,
from Dutton Children's Books.
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- Your
Dictionary.com
- Dictionary. thesaurus, word of the day, play word
games, find fascinating facts about language.
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