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FREE Children’s Classics for Your Kindle

December 29, 2011 by Ami 29 Comments

eBooks for Kids

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)

Among the Farmyard People

Among the Forest People

Among the Meadow People

Among the Night People

Among the Pond People

 

Lucy Fitch Perkins Books (early-middle elementary)

Belgian Twins

Dutch Twins

Eskimo Twins

French Twins

Irish Twins

Italian Twins

Japanese Twins

Mexican Twins

Puritan Twins

Scotch Twins

Spartan Twins

Swiss Twins

 

William J. Hopkins Books (early elementary)

The Sandman: His Farm Stories

The Sandman: His Sea Stories

 

Ernest Thompson Seton Books

Wild Animals I Have Known (upper elementary+)

Wild Animals at Home

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne Books (middle-upper elementary+)

Tanglewood Tales 

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+)

Alexander the Great

Rollo at Work

Rollo at Play

Hannibal

Romulus

History of Julius Caesar

King Alfred of England

William the Conqueror

Cleopatra

Peter the Great

 

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)

The Blue Fairy Book  

The Brown Fairy Book

The Crimson Fairy Book

The Green Fairy Book

The Grey Fairy Book

The Lilac Fairy Book

The Orange Fairy Book

The Pink Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book

The Violet Fairy Book

The Yellow Fairy Book

The Olive Fairy Book

 

Alfred John Church Books (upper elementary+)

Stories from the Greek Tragedians

Stories from Livy

 

Gene Stratton-Porter Books (upper elementary)

Freckles

Girl of the Limberlost

 

Maud Lindsay Books (early elementary)

Mother Stories

The Story-teller

 

H. E. Marshall Books 

English Literature for Boys and Girls (Jr. High)

This Country of Ours (upper elementary)

 

William J. Long Books (upper elementary)

Secrets of the Woods 

A Little Brother to the Bear and Other Animal Stories 

 

Rudyard Kipling Books (early-middle elementary)

Just So Stories 

The Jungle Book 

 

Thornton Burgess Books (early-middle elementary)

Burgess Animal Book for Children 

Burgess Bird Book for Children 

Old Mother West Wind

Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories

Mother West Wind 'How' Stories

Mother West Wind "Where" Stories

Mother West Wind's Children

Lightfoot the Deer

Prickly Porky

Reddy Fox

Jerry Muskrat

Happy Jack

Mr. Mocker

Buster Bear

Old Mr. Toad

Danny Meadow Mouse

Unc' Billy Possum

Blacky the Crow

Whitefoot the Wood Mouse

Johnny Chuck

Poor Mrs. Quack

Old Granny Fox

Bowser the Hound

Jimmy Skunk

Chatterer the Red Squirrel

Mrs. Peter Rabbit

Paddy Beaver

Grandfather Frog

 

Gobs of Beatrix Potter Stories with illustrations found here (early-middle elementary)

 

L. Frank Baum Books (early-middle elementary)

Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Marvelous Land of Oz

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Emerald City of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Glinda of Oz

Magic of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz

Road to Oz

Lost Princess of Oz

Scarecrow of Oz

Patchwork Girl of Oz

Tin Woodman of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

 

E. Nesbit Books (middle elementary-upper elementary)

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare 

The Railway Children

Book of Dragons

Five Children and It

Story of the Treasure Seekers

find more Nesbit books here

 

Howard Pyle Books (upper elementary+)

Otto of the Silver Hand 

Robin Hood 

Men of Iron

Pepper and Salt (middle elementary)

 

Margaret Sidney Books (early-middle elementary)

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew 

Five Little Peppers Midway

Five Little Peppers Grown Up

Five Little Peppers Abroad

Five Little Peppers and Their Friends

Five Little Peppers at School

Ben Pepper

The Adventures of Joel Pepper

 

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!

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Comments

  1. Michele says

    December 29, 2011 at 10:34 am

    Thank you Ami!!!!

  2. Jeni says

    December 29, 2011 at 5:25 pm

    What a great resource! Thanks for compiling all of these!

  3. Darnia says

    December 29, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Thanks so much for this great list. I bought my three girls kindles for Christmas so this is very useful.

  4. Chareen says

    December 29, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    Wow that list is Awesome. Thank you so much for compiling these for us.

  5. Clarinda Olenslager says

    December 30, 2011 at 2:16 am

    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.

  6. Tara says

    December 30, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing this list. My daughter devours books so I love free!

  7. Aimee says

    January 4, 2012 at 10:01 am

    Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful list!

  8. Deb @ Living Montessori Now says

    January 7, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    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.

  9. Darrell says

    January 8, 2012 at 12:57 am

    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:)

  10. Katie says

    January 11, 2012 at 12:49 am

    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!

  11. Belinda says

    January 18, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    Thank you for this list. I would add the What Katy Did books by Susan Coolidge and Just David by Eleanor H. Porter.

  12. Ami says

    January 18, 2012 at 11:44 pm

    Belinda,

    I can’t wait to check those out! Thank you! 🙂 Ami

  13. Lizzie says

    January 23, 2012 at 4:19 pm

    awesome!!!

  14. Marcy says

    January 24, 2012 at 3:42 am

    geez. how on earth did I miss this? combine this with my list and surely we have covered it all!!

  15. Sarah Smith says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:24 pm

    WOw, this is great! two other sites I love are http://www.heritage-history.com and http://www.mainlesson.com

  16. Alison says

    November 24, 2012 at 1:43 am

    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.

  17. Marie B says

    July 10, 2013 at 1:16 pm

    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 🙂

  18. Ami says

    July 18, 2013 at 9:12 am

    Hi Marie!

    I fixed the link. Hope you are doing well! 🙂 Ami

  19. Mary Collins says

    January 13, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    Hi Ami,

    Great list. I am going to use it on my site. <a href="http://inspiredbooksguide.com">inspiredbooksguide.com</a&gt;

  20. kimbery mcfee says

    January 8, 2015 at 1:24 pm

    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.

  21. ami says

    January 23, 2015 at 9:50 am

    Thanks for letting me know. I will work on those links.

  22. Leo Tat says

    May 27, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    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.

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