This is an older collection, including mostly books that were published pre-1924. Makes available 60,000 free eBooks, split into easy categories for quick browsing. Suggested grade level and video length is provided, so you know what you are getting into. Examples of content: Lily Tomlin reading Amanda Noll’s funny Hey, That’s MY Monster! or Robert Guillaume reading Chih-Yuan Chen’s engaging Guji Guji. The SAG-AFTRA Foundation has created this resource with a wonderful selection of books being read by professional actors. There are also guides and games for extra learning fun. Available ebooks include: Winnie the Witch, Sherlock Holmes and loads of leveled readers of fiction and nonfiction. Michelle of Fab Book Reviews has put together a wonderful resource list of links to kid lit author offerings.Ĭreated by Oxford University Press, this provides tablet-friendly eBooks for kids ages of 3–7. Support authors! Right now is especially a challenging time for them, as tours have been cancelled or postponed, so if you can find ways to support them, please do. If you are interested in accessing free books for kids online, we’ve curated this handy-dandy list.Īlso, we’ve chosen these sites because they are fair, legal ways of accessing free books. Many subscription-based children’s book sites have opened their access to the public at large, and many book publishers have updated on their fair use policies to allow books to be available to kids via social media and school interfaces. The good news is there is already a decent amount of free books for kids available online, and now there has been an expansion of available resources in light of the virus. (Also, see our list of educational comic resources for homeschooling.) On top of our own time-passing needs, this can be an especially difficult time for people with children, who are suddenly attempting to homeschool with no prior experience. Calibre is a neat piece of software for managing your electronic library, convert eBooks from one format to another and it also provides online access to free ebooks.Here ye, hear ye: did you know the internet is packed with free books for kids? A lot of us are self-isolating due to COVID-19 right now, hanging out at home with lots of wide-open time that needs filling, and little-to-no accessibility to bookstores or libraries. One more thing I wanted to tell you about. Again, you’ll need to read these books on a web browser as they are uploaded directly onto their pages. They have three categories: young children, older children and young adults. Last but not least, Children’s storybooks online is constantly adding new books to its shelves. You can download the books to most eReaders as Project Gutenberg supports all popular eReader software. They have a category for hundreds of kids books ranging from history, instructional books and periodicals to fiction, fairy tales and picture books. Now we’re going to the source for all Classic books. Yet again, I did not see any links to downloading the eBooks, so you’d have to read these books through a web browser. Different windows provide deeper access to poetry, children’s fiction, fairy tales, and education and non-fiction. Wikisource has a really well presented page called ‘Portal: Children’. From what I can tell, it’s only available on your web browser, but most eReaders now have access to the web, so that shouldn’t be a problem. This is an easy list of 548 books that you can skim through by author, title of book and genre. Here are my top picks for ease of use and variety of free eBooks. However, I’m going to feature sites that provide free eBooks to most, if not all, eReaders and Tablets. If you own a Kindle, Amazon has a list of 100 free eBooks for kids:Īnd there are lists of free “iBooks” for iPhone/iPads/iPod Touch:Īnd the same goes for the Nook (although I couldn’t find a way to filter the free Nook books, so this is a list of all their free books, kinds included):įree eBooks from Barnes and Noble Free for All eReaders and Tablets The same goes for some of the other device providers. We also found that the bookstore affiliated with Kobo has a listing of free eBooks, some of which we have also downloaded. Many now have sites dedicated to lending eBooks and all you need is your library card. Yes, you should check out your local library. Sure, we’ve bought some books, but mostly we have downloaded free Classics and borrowed books from the local library. Our daughter received a Kobo eReader for Christmas from her grandparents and since then she has been glued to it.
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