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Folktales, Myths and Legends
Folktales, Myths and Legends
African, American, Celtic, Russian, Yiddish, Ute, Eskimo folk tales and others, along with lesson plans, handouts and activities.
African American Folktales

One More African American Folktale

Cambodian Folktales

Fukushima Folktales

Icelandic Folktales
Indian stories and folktales
Indonesian Folktales
Korean Folktales
Japanese Folktales
Told in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian and German
Louisiana Folktales
Fauna Folktales
Stories about animals
Percussion Folktales
Stories about drums
Aaron Shepard's Storybook
Folktales, tall tales, myths and legends retold by a Los Angeles storyteller and author.
Folktales 4 U To Make Your Own
Annotated for storytellers
Beauty and the Beast
Online Children's Books
Some from famous books, others available only online.

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Poetry
Poetic Cats
Poems about cats
A Child's Garden of Verses
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Poetry Archives
More than 6,000 poems
Specific Authors
E-texts of Works by Dante Alighieri
Hans Christian Anderson
Click on chronological list.

E-Texts of Works by Jane Austen

J.M. Barrie
Peter and Wendy (aka Peter Pan)
L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Lewis Carroll Texts Online

Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
aka Sherlock Holmes
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind In The Willows
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
Rudyard Kipling
How The Leopard Got His Spots (Beautifully illustrated with photos.)
Jack London
Call of the Wild
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Scroll part way down the page to find the links to the tales. The poems are here.
The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Margery Williams
The Velveteeen Rabbit

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Collections of online classics from...
Adelaide University Library
Hundreds of works; browse by author.
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.
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).
Bartleby.com
Tons of online fiction and verse. Search by title or author.
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!
E-Texts from Search Engine Sleuth
Still more links to online texts.
The English Server
Novels, drama, poetry, short stories, as well as other interesting links, including one on banned books.
Fairy Tales
From the University of Maryland collection
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.
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.
Internet School Library Media Center
Links to other collections of literature classics.
Internet Public Library
Includes the complete works of Shakespeare as well as 13,000 other titles; search by title or author.
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.)
Luminarium
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature
Online Books
Twelve thousand titles, searchable by title, author and subject.
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.
The Perseus Project
Ancient Greek and Latin texts and related documents.
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.
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!
 
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.
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.
 
Texts for young readers are here
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
Authors and Illustrators on the Web
Once they begin reading, they might like to learn something about the person who wrote it.
Corona Avenue School Reading List
The teachers selected these links for their students. Your children might like them, too.
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
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.
The End of the Rainbow
A full text young reader novel by Bjarne Reuter, from Dutton Children's Books.
Your Dictionary.com
Dictionary. thesaurus, word of the day, play word games, find fascinating facts about language.
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