• Speakaboos
  http://www.speakaboos.com/home
  You will find an abundance of animated stories read aloud by famous people. Some are read in song! You can sign up for free login to download the stories.   

• Big Universe: A World of Online Children's Books
  http://www.biguniverse.com/
  Hundreds of books to read online. You can subscribe for free to create your online bookshelf.
  • Create and share your own e-book
    Over 7,000 graphics of story starters, characters, backdrops, speech bubbles and more---
    
    
• Learn to Read
  http://www.starfall.com/
  Click on online stories for early emergent readers and advanced emergent readers.
  
  
  
• Kindersite - Stories
  http://www.kindersite.org/directory/directoryframe.htm
  Links to stories read online from a variety of sites.
  
  
  
• The On-Line Books Page
  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
  14,000+ titles on-line from the University of Pennsylvania. Some references are linked to other host sites.
  Level: Senior
  
  
• Storyline Online
  http://www.storylineonline.net/
  Online stories, activities and author information. Use the menu on the left to access title selection.
  • Featuring different books regularly.
    
    
• Page by Page Books
  http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/title.html
  On-line books to read listed by authors and titles.
  
  
• The Three Little Pigs
  http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/%7Eodenbach/pigs/pigs.html
  Read The Three Little Books on-line.
  
  
• Bartleby Library
  http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
  Poetry, Quotes, plays and books on-line.
  Level: Senior
  
  
• Aesop's Fables
  http://www.aesopfables.com/
  655 Fables on-line with some sound clips. Lesson plan sites are selected.
  
  
• Classic Bookshelf
  http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/
  On-line texts of the classics.
  Level: intermediate, Senior
  
  
• Great Literature On-Line
  http://www.mostweb.cc/Classics/ 
  Books by authors such as: Lousia May Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, Jane Austen, Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Stephen Crane, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Homer, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Jules Verne and more... Biography links and review of the authors' works are also included.
  Level: Senior
  
  
• The Literature Network
  http://www.online-literature.com/
  Searchable online literature. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. There are over 300 full books and over 1000 short stories and poems by over 90 authors. The quotations database has over 8500 quotes. Author and poet biographies included.
  
  
• Classic Reader
  http://www.classicreader.com/
  On-line classic books sorted by fiction, non-fiction, children, poetry, Shakespeare, short stories, and drama.
   
  
• The Internet Sacred Text Archive
  http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
  An extensive list of classic literature.
  
  
• Wired for Books
  http://www.wiredforbooks.org/
  On-line readings of poems, short stories and interviews by authors and those in the literary world.
  
  
• Early Canadiana On-Line
  http://www.canadiana.org/eco.php
  Searchable on-line books, journals and government documents. This project is on-going and pages are added regularly.
  Level: Senior

Copyright 2001
Pat Elliott, Library Specialist
Sunday March 1, 2009 5:24 PM