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Children's Literature Collections on the Web

A Apple Pie by Kate Greenaway. London; New York: F. Warne, [1900].
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Aaron Shepard's World of Stories "Here are folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, myths, legends, magical tales, and sacred stories, plus original fables, humor, fantasy, and historical fiction—all from award-winning author Aaron Shepard. Most of the stories have been published in top children’s magazines like Cricket and Australia’s School Magazine, while some are from Aaron’s picture books and early readers."
Aesop's Fables "Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) the rest are from Jean De La Fontaine in French and translated to English by several good internet souls. Included are Real Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables, Search Engine and much more on the way. Recently added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen."
Baldwin's Library of Children's Literature: Digital Collection The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 100,000 volumes published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the current year. Its holdings of more than 800 early American imprints is the second largest such collection in the United States.
byGosh Books Online http://bygosh.com/
Children's Books in the Library of Congress Rare Books & Special Collections Digitized collection of children's books from the Library of Congress Rare Books & Special Collections.
Children's poems from the Poetry Foundation Focusing on children and poetry, this area of the larger organization provides resources for parents and teachers to cultivate in children a lifelong love of poetry.
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales & Stories Andersen’s tales in full-text.
International Children's Digital Library Free access to high-quality digital books from around the world. Browse by age, genre, book length, character types, or even the color of a book's cover.
Literature for Children Collection "Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950. At the core of this Collection are books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, housed in the Department of Special Collections and Area Studies at the University of Florida. Books from the Departments of Special Collections at the Florida Atlantic University, Florida State University, and the University of South Florida join volumes from the Baldwin Library to complete the Collection. The foundation for this Collection was a cataloging and preservation microfilming project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The NEH project included a digital color management strategy for the reproduction of illustrations as children saw them."
Project Gutenberg's Children's Bookshelf Collection of illustrated antique books online
Storynory Free to use audio book site tailored specifically for children., providing a plethora of original stories as well as classical fairy tales and short novels
SurLaLune Fairy Tales Features annotated fairy tales, including histories, interpretations, and illustrations.

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