If you want to encourage your children or grandchildren to read but
would prefer that they read a paper copy or don’t want the Kindle version for
some reason, there are a number of websites where you can download a free copy
as a PDF, plain text, or versions for other types of ebooks. Some of these
sites, such as Project Guttenberg, may even have free Kindle versions that you
couldn’t locate on Amazon.
Planet eBook has a limited selection of PDF books and no search
function but offers some of the best children’s classics, including:
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Andersen’s Fairy
Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Anne of Green
Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Grimm’s Fairy
Tales compiled by the Grimm Brothers
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
The Tales of
Mother Goose by Charles Perrault
Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Or do your own search for one of your childhood favorites at one of
these sites:
Project Gutenberg at www.gutenberg.org
Internet Archive at https://archive.org
These resources can also be used to find adult classics.
You now have access to plenty of reading material, so make the most of
your time indoors.
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The
picture is an illustration John Tenniel drew for the original edition of Alice
in Wonderland. It is in the public domain because of its age.
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