Elijah needed some new reading material for his Kindle, so I went shopping yesterday! I found oodles of FREE classic eBooks for kids! I'll post my finds (old and new) ~ maybe this will help you find some things as well. Please preview and research each title to make sure it's suitable for your family.
If you don't know how to upload books from Gutenberg, you can read about it here.
And, if you don't have a Kindle (or Ereader), you may seriously want to consider buying one. Ours has paid for itself many times over with the free books we've found.
James Baldwin Books
Fifty Famous Stories Retold (early-middle elementary)
Fifty Famous People (early-middle elementary)
Old Greek Stories (middle elementary)
The Story of Siegfried (upper elementary+)
Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln (middle-upper elementary)
Clara Dillingham Pierson Books (early elementary)
Lucy Fitch Perkins Books (early-middle elementary)
William J. Hopkins Books (early elementary)
Ernest Thompson Seton Books
Wild Animals I Have Known (upper elementary+)
Nathaniel Hawthorne Books (middle-upper elementary+)
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
Jane Andrews Books (middle elementary)
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children
Jacob Abbott Books (Jr. High+)
Find 88 free G. A. Henty books here (Jr. High+)
Fairy Tale Books
The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (early elementary)
The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum (middle elementary+)
Granny's Wonderful Chair by Frances Browne (middle elementary)
The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin (middle elementary)
East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon by Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen (early elementary)
In Story-land by Elizabeth Harrison (early elementary)
Andrew Lang Fairy Books (middle-upper elementary)
Alfred John Church Books (upper elementary+)
Stories from the Greek Tragedians
Gene Stratton-Porter Books (upper elementary)
Maud Lindsay Books (early elementary)
H. E. Marshall Books
English Literature for Boys and Girls (Jr. High)
This Country of Ours (upper elementary)
William J. Long Books (upper elementary)
A Little Brother to the Bear and Other Animal Stories
Rudyard Kipling Books (early-middle elementary)
Thornton Burgess Books (early-middle elementary)
Burgess Animal Book for Children
Burgess Bird Book for Children
Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories
Mother West Wind 'How' Stories
Mother West Wind "Where" Stories
Gobs of Beatrix Potter Stories with illustrations found here (early-middle elementary)
L. Frank Baum Books (early-middle elementary)
E. Nesbit Books (middle elementary-upper elementary)
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
find more Nesbit books here
Howard Pyle Books (upper elementary+)
Pepper and Salt (middle elementary)
Margaret Sidney Books (early-middle elementary)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Five Little Peppers and Their Friends
Other Books
A Book of Discovery by M. B. Synge (Jr. High+)
The Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber (upper elementary+)
Stories of Siefried by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (middle elementary)
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by Charles Kingsley (upper elementary+)
Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland (upper elementary+)
Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew by Josephine Preston Peabody (middle elementary)
Viking Tales by Jennie Hall (early-middle elementary)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (middle-upper elementary)
The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (upper elementary)
The Story Hour by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (early elementary)
Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers by John Burroughs (upper elementary+)
Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (elementary)
Heroes Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie (upper elementary+)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (early-middle elementary)
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting (early-middle elementary)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewall (middle elementary)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (middle elementary+)
Why the Chimes Rang by Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden (middle elementary)
The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge (upper elementary+)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (middle elementary+)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (middle elementary+)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (middle elementary+)
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter
A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Mary Yonge (middle elementary)
The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale (middle elementary)
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Tell Me Another Story by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (early elementary)
The Aesop for Children (early elementary)
More Jataka Tales by E. C. Babbitt (early elementary)
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charels Dickens (middle-upper elementary)
Charles Dickens' Children Stories
Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg (middle elementary)
The Book of Nature Myths by Florence Holbrook (early elementary)
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt by James Baikie (upper elementary)
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (early elementary)
Happy Reading!
Thank you Ami!!!!
What a great resource! Thanks for compiling all of these!
Thanks so much for this great list. I bought my three girls kindles for Christmas so this is very useful.
Wow that list is Awesome. Thank you so much for compiling these for us.
Cool. Thank you. Our homeschooling curriculum uses alot of these books for K, 1st and 2nd grade work. But there is alot of new books on here to enjoy.
Thank you so much for sharing this list. My daughter devours books so I love free!
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful list!
Wow! What a great list … thanks so much for sharing! I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow.
Thanks so much! I’ve searched and gotten a lot of freebies for my kindle, but there were still new (to me) books on this list:)
WHat an AWESOME resource! Thank you so much for linking up at Thrifty Thursday, I am going to PIN this and share on Facebook! LOVE IT!
Thank you for this list. I would add the What Katy Did books by Susan Coolidge and Just David by Eleanor H. Porter.
Belinda,
I can’t wait to check those out! Thank you! 🙂 Ami
awesome!!!
geez. how on earth did I miss this? combine this with my list and surely we have covered it all!!
WOw, this is great! two other sites I love are http://www.heritage-history.com and http://www.mainlesson.com
I am so glad you posted the Thornton Burgess books. I had no idea they were on Amazon. My dad read them when he was little, and he kept the books. I grew up reading them. What a delightful find.
Hello Ami!
I could not connect to the Beatrix Potter books from your link. I got an error message. :/
Thank you for all the links and instructions. I've been downloading like crazy! 🙂
Have a great day!
Marie B 🙂
Hi Marie!
I fixed the link. Hope you are doing well! 🙂 Ami
Hi Ami,
Great list. I am going to use it on my site. <a href="http://inspiredbooksguide.com">inspiredbooksguide.com</a>
I am not able to get to the g a henty books, it gives me an error message. Yiu did so much work putting that list together. Thank you.
Thanks for letting me know. I will work on those links.
Wow, this is a huge list, thanks. We bought a Kindle for our daughter as her book collection was getting too big and we had to find a way to not accumulating.
Kindle books can be expensive after a while. We get these cheap offers for like 99 pence, and then the sequels get more expensive. So what we started doing is choosing non-urgent delivery for our Amazon deliveries and getting Kindle book coupons as we are Prime members. Still it's slow and our daughter is a fast reader.