Knowledge: classics
Links
- Treasure Island: Classic Books for Teens
http://www.jollyroger.com/treasureisland.html - A list of fifty classic books appropriate for young adults each linked to corresponding public domain versions of the text. List is sorted by author.
- Catcher in the Rye Essays
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/honeydew/ - Includes a summary of the book, an "about the author" section, essay ideas and help, and completed essays.
- Trina's Curious George Website
http://www.geocities.com/trina_kf/ - Find information about Curious George and his creators, pictures, an introduction to the series, and links.
- Building Rainbows Book Reviews - Classic Children's Books
http://www.buildingrainbows.com/ETEXT/classics.html - A collection of electronic texts for young people with provisions for adding book reviews and discussion about each of the books.
- Classics for Young People
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storclas.html - A list of classic literature for young people sorted by author. HTML versions of the text are included for many of the books.
- Classic Reader
http://www.classicreader.com/ - A large collection of full-length classic stories for online reading.
- The Baldwin Project
http://www.mainlesson.com/ - Online editions of classic children's books from the golden age of children's literature (1880-1922).
- Books for Young Readers
http://www.bygosh.com/kidsstories.htm - Electronic text versions of young children's books and rhymes. Most are illustrated.
- University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: The Modern English Collection
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html - Browse and search the publicly-accessible electronic texts from this extensive selection. Browse by author, or area of interest. Search by author or title or keywords/phrases within the text. Some titles include illustrations.
- byGosh.com: Children's Classics
http://www.bygosh.com/childrensclassics.htm - Offers online selection of classic stories for kids and teens. Includes links to short stories for kids.
- Mary Jo's E-texts
http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html - A collection of electronic classics covering a range of authors. A document viewer is required to view these zipped files.
- The Virtual Bookshelf
http://www.islandmm.com/ - An archive of virtual books in a web-friendly format.
- Young People's Zone
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/ordinal/ - A site with children's literature online sorted by series and author. Includes fairy tales, Avonlea series, fables, Robin Hood tales, and other classics
- The War of the Worlds
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html - E-text of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
- IPL Story Hour
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/ - A small collection of online stories for younger readers. Contents include: Mother Goose, The Tortoise and the Hare, and others.
- The Motley Kids
http://azninja66.tripod.com/prototype.html - Dedicated to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. An online project at Westminster High School in California for English Honors 2.
- From Mother Goose in Prose by Frank Baum
http://oaks.nvg.org/sa2ra4.html - Includes story versions of a few rhymes.
- Kids' Corner
http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm - Featuring the stories of Beatrix Potter in text, RealAudio, streaming media, and multimedia slide shows.
- The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ - Electronic texts archived at the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library. Search or browse by author/title/subject.
- Golden Books
http://www.randomhouse.com/golden/ - Offers printable activities and games based on childhood favorites.
- Classic Bookshelf
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/ - E-texts presented with the aid of an applet which allows the choice of font size, spacing, and color.
- Children's Classics List from The Horn Book
http://www.hbook.com/pdf/childrensclassics.pdf - A downloadable listing of children's classics with associated descriptions arranged by age group. The list was compiled by Mary M. Burns.
- Animated Tall Tales
http://www.animatedtalltales.com - Animated versions of classic American tales like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others. Fully narrated online story books and Flash cartoons.
- Jack London's Writings
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/ - A collection of electronic text versions of novels and short stories by Jack London.
- Fahrenheit 451
http://www.freewebs.com/fahrenheit-451/ - Learn about the characters, conflict, vocabulary, and the theme of this novel. Includes polls and chat room.
- Lynch Multimedia
http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/ - Includes Shakespeare's plays with audio, and the original.
- Electronic Texts formated by Robert Stockton
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/rgs-home.html - A collection of over twenty electronic text versions of classics reformatted by Robert Stockton for easy reading.
- The Fairytale Garden
http://www.geocities.com/noralinno/index.html - Illustrated poems, stories and fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen and Robert Louis Stevenson.
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