Timeless Children's Books for K-6

451 books appropriate for K-6.

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• Books for the Very Young, Who are Learning to Read



• Books for Parents



• Books and Stories to Read to Children



• Books for Self-Readers

Table of Contents

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Books for the Very Young, Who Are Learning to Read

Hans Christian Andersen

• A Danish Romance
• Fairy Tales
• The Ice-Maiden and Other Tales
• Stories from Hans Andersen

Aesop

• Fables
• Aesop's Fables translated by V.S. Vernon Jones

Arthur Scott Bailey

• The Tale of Brownie Beaver
• The Tale of Buster Bumblebee
• The Tale of Cuffy Bear
• The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse
• The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
• The Tale of Henrietta Hen
• The Tale of Major Monkey
• The Tale of Old Mr. Crow
• The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels
• The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk
• The Tale of Solomon Owl

Thornton Burgess

• The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
• Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, 1920
• The Adventures of Paddy Beaver
• The Adventures of Prickly Porky
• The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum
• Bowser the Hound
• Lightfoot the Deer
• Mother West Wind "Where" Stories
• Mother West Wind "Why" Stories
• Mrs. Peter Rabbit

C. Collodi  [Carlo Lorenzini]

• The Adventures of Pinocchio

W.W. Denslow

• Denslow's Mother Goose

The Brothers Grimm

• Fairy Tales, translated by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes
• Grimm's Fairy Stories, 1922
• Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm, translated by Lucy Crane

Johnny Gruelle

• Raggedy Andy Stories
• Raggedy Ann Stories

Charles Perrault

• Tales of Mother Goose

Clement Moore

• 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Robert Louis Stevenson

• A Child's Garden of Verses

Florence White Williams

• The Little Red Hen

Margery Williams

• The Velveteen Rabbit

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Books for Parents

• Forgotten Books of the American Nursery by Rosalie Halsey
• How to Tell Stories to Children by Sara Cone Bryant
• A Mother's List of Books for Children, compiled by Gertrude Weld Arnold
• Stories to Tell Children by Sara Cone Bryant

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Stories to Read Aloud to Children

• Celtic Tales Told to Children by Louey Chisolm
• Children's Classics in Dramatic Form: a Reader for the Fourth Grade by Augusta Stevenson, 1908
• The Children's Hour: Stories from the Classics, selected by Eva Tappan

• volume 3
• volume 5
• Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories edited by Watty Piper, 1922
• The Children's Six Minutes by Bruce Wright, 1922
• The Child's World: Third Reader by Hetty Browne, Sarah Willer, and W.K. Tate
• Classic Myths retold by Mary Catherine Judd
• Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Deccan Nursery Tales or Fairy Tales of the South [of India] by C.A. Kincaid, 1914
• Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis
• English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
• English Literature for Boys and Girls by H.E. Marshall
• Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon
• Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Famous Stories Every Child Sould Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Folk Tales Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Grammar School Literature, volume 4, by William Elson and Christine Keck
• Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
• Journeys through Bookland by Charles Sylvester
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• The Junior Classics edited by William Patten
• volume 1 -- Fairy and Wonder
• volume 4 -- Heroes and Heroism of Chivalry
• volume 5 -- Stories that Never Grow Old
• volume 6 -- Old-Fashioned Tales
• volume 7 -- Stories of Courage and Heroism
• volume 8 -- Animal and Nature Stories
• A Kindergarten Story Book by Jane Hoxie
• Legends Every Child Should Know
• Lists of Stories and Programs of Story Hours compiled by the staff of the Children's Dept., St. Louis Public Library, 1921
• My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales edited by Captain Edric Vredenburg
• Myths and Legendary Heroes edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Myths that Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Old Greek Folk Tales told anew by Josephine Preston Peabody, 1897
• Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin
• The Ontario Readers Third Book
• The Ontario Readers Fourth Book
• Story Hour Readers Book Three by Ida Cob and Alice Christie
• Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston
• Stories for the Young by Hannah More et al.
• Stories of Childhood
• Stories of the Great Inventors by Hattie Macomber
• Stories of Ships and the Sea edited by E. Haldeman-Julius
• Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Talking Beasts, edited by Wiggin and by Nora Archibald Smith, 1922
• Thrilling Stories of the Ocean by Marmaduke Park, 1852
• Types of Children's Literature: A Collection of the World's Best Literature for Children, Edited by Walter Barnes
• Welsh Fairy Tales edited by P.H. Emerson
• Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis, 1921

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For Self-Readers

John Abbott

• David Cockett: His Life and Adventures

Louisa Mae Alcott

• Eight Cousins
• Flower Fables
• A Garland for Girls
• Hospital Sketches
• Jack and Jill
• Jo's Boys
• Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories, 1882
• Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
• Little Women
• Marjorie's Three Gifts (short story)
• A Modern Cinderella
• The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
• An Old-Fashioned Girl
• On Picket Duty and Other Tales
• Rose in Bloom (sequel to Eight Cousins)
• Under the Lilacs

Victor Appleton (pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate)

• Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters
• Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship
• Tom Swift and His Air Glider
• Tom Swift and His Air Scout
• Tom Swift and His Airship
• Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel
• Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive
• Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle
• Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
• Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon
• Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
• Tom Swift and His Motor Boat
• Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle
• Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone
• Tom Swift and His Sky Racer
• Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat
• Tom Swift and His Undersea Search
• Tom Swift and His War Tank
• Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
• Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera
• Tom Swift and the Diamond Makers
• Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
• Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X
• Tom Swift in Captivity
• Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice
• Tom Swift in the City of Gold
• Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

Temple Bailey

• Contrary Mary
• Judy
• The Tin Soldier
• The Trumpeter Swan

(Lyman) Frank Baum (1856-1919)

• Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
• The Emerald City of Oz
• Glinda of Oz
• The Lost Princess of Oz
• The Magic of Oz
• The Marvelous Land of Oz
• Ozma of Oz
• The Patchwork Girl of Oz
• Rinkitink in Oz
• The Road to Oz
• The Scarecrow of Oz
• Tik-Tok of Oz
• The Tin Woodman of Oz
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Thomas Bulfinch

• The Age of Chivalry [King Arthur and his knights]
• Legends of Charlemagne
• Mythology: The Age of Fable

Frances Hodgson Burnett

• The Dawn of a To-Morrow
• Emily Fox-Seton, 1901
• A Fair Barbarian
• The Head of the House of Coombe
• His Grace of Osmonde
• In the Closed Room
• A Lady of Quality
• The Land of the Blue Flower (short story)
• The Little Hunchback Zia (short story)
• A Little Princess
• Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories
• The Lost Prince
• My Robin (short story)
• Racketty-Packetty House
• Robin
• Sara Crewe
• The Secret Garden
• The Shuttle
• T. Tembarom
• The White People

Edgar Rice Burroughs

• At the Earth's Core
• The Beasts of Tarzan
• The Chessmen of Mars
• The Efficiency Expert
• The Gods of Mars
• Jungle Tales
• The Land that Time Forgot
• The Lost Continent
• The Mucker
• The Oakdale Affair
• Out of Time's Abyss
• The People that Time Forgot
• A Princess of Mars
• The Return of Tarzan
• The Son of Tarzan
• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
• Tarzan of the Apes
• Tarzan the Terrible
• Tarzan the Untamed
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars
• The Warlord of Mars

Lewis Carroll

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by Mrs. J.C. Gorham
• The Hunting of the Snark (poem)
• Through the Looking Glass

Geoffrey Chaucer

• The Canterbury Pilgrims, Chaucer retold for children by M. Sturt

Padraic Colum

• The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

James Curwood (1878-1927)

• Back to God's Country and Other Stories
• Baree, Son of Kazan [the wolf dog]
• The Country Beyond: a Romance of the Wilderness
• The Danger Trail
• The Flaming Forest
• The Flower of the North
• God's Country -- and the Women
• The Golden Snare
• The Grizzly King: a Romance of the Wild
• The Honor of the Big Snows
• Isobel, a Romance of the Northern Trail
• Kazan [the wolf dog]
• Nomads of the North: a Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars
• Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
• The River's End
• The Valley of Silent Men: a Story of the Three River Country

Charles Dickens

• A Child's History of England

Mary Mapes Dodge

• Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates

Friedrich de la Motte Fouquee

• Undine

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish (1859-1932)

• Wind in the Willows

John Habberton

• Helen's Babies

Joel Chandler Harris

• Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Gorgon's Head
• The Paradise of Children
• The Three Golden Apples
• The Miraculous Pitcher
• Tanglewood Tales
• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

G.A. Henty (1832-1902)

• Among the Malay Pirates
• At Agincourt
• Beric the Briton
• Bonnie Prince Charlie
• Both Sides of the Border: a Tale of Hotspur and glendower
• The Boy Knight: a Tale of the Crusades
• The Bravest of the Brave
• By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604)
• By Pike and Dyke, a Tale of theRise of the Dutch Republic
• By Sheer Pluck: a Tale of the Ashanti War
• Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
• The Cornet of the Horse: a Tale of Marlborough's Wars
• The Dragon and the Raven
• Forest and Frontiers
• In Freedom's Cause
• Friends Though Divided: a Tale of the Civil War
• The Golden Canyon
• In the Heart of the Rockies
• In the Irish Brigade
• In the Reign of Terror
• In Times of Peril
• Jack Archer, a Tale of the Crimea
• Jacobite Exile
• The Knight of the White Cross
• The Lion of St. Mark
• The Lion of the North (see also sequel Won by the Sword)
• A March on London
• On the Pampas
• One of the 28th, a tale of Waterloo
• Orange and Green
• The Queen's Cup
• Rujub the Juggler
• Saint George for England
• Tales of Daring and Danger
• Through the Fray: a Tale of the Luddite Riots
• The Tiger of Mysore: a Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
• The Treasure of the Incas
• True to the Old Flag: a tale of the American war of independence
• When London Burned
• Winning His Spurs: a Tale of the Crusades
• With Buller in Natal
• With Clive in India: or the Beginnings of an Empire
• With Kitchener in the Soudan: a Story of Atbara and Omburman
• With Lee in Virginia
• With Moore at Corunna
• With Wolfe in Canada
• Won by the Sword (= sequel of The Lion of the North)
• Wulf the Saxon
• The Young Buglers
• The Young Carthaginian

Laura Lee Hope (pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate)

• The Bobbsey Twins or Merry Days Indoors and Out
• The Bobbsey Twins at Home
• The Bobbsey Twins at School
• The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge
• The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair
• The Bobbsey Twins in the Country
• The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City
• The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West
• The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
• The Bobbsey Twins at Meadowbrook
• The Bobbsey Twins at the Sea Shore
• The Bobbsey Twins in Washington

Washington Irving

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (story)

Charles Kingsley

• The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
• The Water-Babies

Sir James Knowles

• The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights, 1862

Charles and Mary Lamb

• Books for Children
• Tales from Shakespeare
• The Adventures of Ulysses (Charles alone)

Andrew Lang

• Arabian Nights Entertainments
• The Blue Fairy Book
• The Brown Fairy Book
• The Crimson Fairy Book
• The Green Fairy Book
• The Grey Fairy Book
• Historical Mysteries
• The Lilac Fairy Book
• The Orange Fairy Book
• The Pink Fairy Book
• The Red Fairy Book
• Tales of Troy
• The Violet Fairy Book
• The Yellow Fairy Book

Edward Lear

• Book of Nonsense (short)
• Laughable Lyrics
• More Nonsense
• Nonsense Books
• Nonsense Songs

Hugh Lofting

• The Story of Dr. Dolittle
• The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle

Jack London

• Call of the Wild
• White Fang

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Song of Hiawatha

George MacDonald, Scottish (1824-1905)

• At the Back of the North Wind
• simplified version by Elizabeth Lewis
• The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
• Phantastes
• The Princess and Curdie
• The Princess and the Goblin
• Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
• St. George and St. Michael
• Warlock o' Glenwarlock

J. Walker McSpadden

• Robin Hood

Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Anne of Avonlea
• Anne of Green Gables
• Anne of the Island
• Anne's House of  Dreams
• Chronicles of Avonlea
• Further Chronicles of Avonlea
• The Golden Road
• Kilmeny of the Orchard
• Rainbow Valley
• Rilla of Ingleside
• The Story Girl

Miss Mulock (Pseudonym of Maria Dinah Craik)

• The Little Lame Prince

E. Nesbit

• Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
• The Enchanted Castle
• Five Children and It
• In Homespun
• The Phoenix and the Carpet
• The Railway Children
• The Rainbow and the Rose
• The Story of the Amulet
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers
• The Wouldbegoods

Eleanor Porter

• Across the Years
• Dawn
• Just David
• Mary Marie
• Miss Billy
• Miss Billy's Decision
• Miss Billy Married
• Oh, Money! Money!
• Pollyanna
• Pollyanna Grows Up
• The Tangled Threads

Ernie Howard Pyle

• Book of Pirates
• Men of Iron
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
• Otto of the Silver Hand
• Pepper and Salt
• The Ruby of Kishmoor
• Stolen Treausre
• Story of the Champions of the Round Table
• Twilight Land

Ernest Seton-Thompson, American (1860-1946)

• Animal Heroes
• The Biography of a Grizzly
• Johnny Bear and Other Stories
• Lobo, Rag, and Vixen, 1908
• Monarch the Big Bear of Tallac
• Rolf in the Woods
• Two Little Savages
• Wild Animals I Have Known

Anna Sewell

• Black Beauty
• Black Beauty: Young Folks' Edition

Margaret Sidney

• The Adventures of Joel Pepper
• Five Little Peppers Abroad
• Five Little Peppers Grow Up
• Five Little Peppers Midway
• Five Little Peppers and their Friends

Johanna Spyri

• The Book of Cornelli
• Erick and Sally, translated by Helene Boll
• Heidi
• Maezli: a Story of the Swiss Valleys, translated by Elisabeth Stork
• Moni the Goat Boy, translated by Helen Dole
• Toni the Little Wood Carver, translated by Helen Dole
• Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country, translated by Louise Brooks
• Veronica and Other Friends
• What Sami Sings with the Birds, translated by Helen Dole
• Willis the Pilot, a sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Catriona (sequel to Kidnapped)
• Kidnapped
• Treasure Island

Frank Stockton

• The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales
• Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts
• The Girl at Cobhurst
• The Great Stone of Sardis
• The Great War Syndicate
• The House of Martha
• The Lady or the Tiger? (story)
• The Magic Egg and Other Stories
• Round-About Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy
• Rudder Grange
• The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Uncle Tom's Cabin: Young Folks' Edition

Gene Stratton-Porter

• At the Foot of the Rainbow
• A Daughter of the Land
• Freckles
• A Girl of the Limberlost
• The Harvester
• Her Father's Daughter
• Laddie
• Moths of the Limberlost

Booth Tarkington

• Penrod
• Penrod and Sam

Mark Twain

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• Huckleberry Finn
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Tom Sawyer

Kate Douglas Wiggin

• The Birds' Christmas Carol (story)
• Bluebeard (story)
• A Cathedral Courtship (story)
• The Diary of a Goose Girl (story)
• The Flag-Raising (story)
• Homespun Tales
• Marm Lisa
• Mother Carey's Chickens
• New Chronicles of Rebecca
• The Old Peabody Pew (story)
• Penelope's English Experiences
• Penelope's Experiences in Scotland
• Penelope's Irish Experiences
• Penelope's Postscripts
• Polly Oliver's Problem
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• The Romance of a Christmas Card
• Rose O' the River
• The Story Hour (with Nora Smith)
• The Story of Patsy
• The Story of Waitstill Baxter
• A Summer in a Canyon
• Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Talking Beasts, edited by Wiggin and by Nora Archibald Smith, 1922
• Timothy's Quest
• A Village Stradivarius (story)
• The Village Watch-Tower

How-to

• The Boy Mechanic, volume one, 700 things for boys to do
• in .pdf, to show the illustrations
• plain text version
• Camping for Boys by H.W. Gibson, 1913
• Things to Make by Archibald Williams
• in .pdf format to show the llustrations
• plain text version

Art

• Pictures Every Child Should Know, by Dolores Bacon, a selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People, illustrated with black and white versions of great paintings and including biographies of the artists (in html format, with illustrations)
• Knights of the Arts: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman