Thousands of free pdf children’s picture books and books pdf download for older kids, in 40+ subject collections online. Also audiobooks, poetry, reading guides for parents, and books by age group.
Try searching for books by author. In the search bar in this link, in the creator field, replace LAST, FIRST with the author’s name. Save books you like to your Internet Archive account by clicking “Favorite” while logged in.
Collections at the Internet Archive’s Open Library and the Universal School Library.
About 3,300 free online books for children from around the world, as recommended by several major libraries. You may wish to use the “Topics & Subjects” filter in the left column.
About 3,700 free online books for kids. This collection includes many anthologies of classic children’s stories and books in several languages from various cultures.
The John Newbery medal is a literary award given every year since 1921 to the author of “the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children”. All of the winners since 1921 are listed here, with links to free online versions of most of them at the Internet Archive.
This Internet Archive blog post from October 2013 contains links to most of the top 100 Children’s books of the last 100 years, according to a list published by the New York Times newspaper in 2013.
“A Library for the World’s Children”. Free online library of about 4,000 books in many languages. One can search by language, format, genre and several other ways.
Thousands of free online books arranged by grade level, for readers from Preschool to 12th grade. Collection organized by Open Library at Internet Archive.
Free children’s classic books. Some book titles: 101 Dalmatians, Dracula, various Dr. Seuss stories, The Iliad, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 20th Century Children’s Book Treasury, Stuart Little, Pippi in the South Seas, Anne of Green Gables, Clifford stories, Mother Goose, Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, The Secret Garden, The Little Red Hen, Madeline in London, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Lassie Come Home, Heidi, A Bear Called Paddington, Pinocchio, Black Beauty, The Night Before Christmas, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Little Women, The Call of the Wild, King Arthur and His Knights, The Three Little Pigs, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Pollyanna, more.
Free books from the Universal School Library’s Cultural Literacy and Humanities Collection. This collection was curated by a national advisory group of school librarians, librarian educators and researchers. This group includes fiction and non-fiction books for reading levels ranging from elementary school grades to adult.
Thousands of free short stories online for kids in free books at the Internet Archive. Includes: The Cat in the Hat, The Stinky Cheese Man, 30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Disney Scary Storybook Collection, Beverly Cleary Henry Huggins, Nancy Drew Ghost Stories, Goosebumps Monster Edition, Encyclopedia Brown, Dare to Be Scared, Double Dork Diaries 2, Disney’s Christmas Storybook, The Hardy Boys Ghost Stories, Scary Stories for Sleepovers, Your Favorite Seuss, Scary Stories for Stormy Nights, and more. Short stories for children, short stories middle school.
Free books about farm life at the Internet Archive. Some authors: E. B. White, Betsy Byars, Stan Berenstain, Willa Cather, Robin Lee Hatcher, W. Nikola-Lisa, Christophe Loupy, Karen Barss, Mary Wormell, Dick King-Smith, Elizabeth Enright, Carol Wallace, Sid Fleischman.
Books about magic for kids.
Children’s books about parent and child.
Comics & graphic novels, superheroes books online.
Fantasy and Magic books for children and young adults.
Historical fiction books about the Civil War for young adults and children.
Books about Middle school for kids and YA.
Mystery and detective books for children and YA.
Nancy Drew mystery stories for children and young adult readers.