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Free Online Books For Children: 10 More of The Best Websites

Free Online Books For Children: 10 More of The Best Websites

Explore 10 more websites with free online books for children. You will find well-known books to self-published and interactive to scanned pages. Reading books online gives children the opportunity to use taught reading strategies independently and at their own pace.

Where to Find Free Online Books for Children

This post follows on from ‘Free Online Children’s Books: 10 Of The Best Websites’. For each website, I have given a description of what they offer and a link to the site. You will find a range of books from well known to self-published and interactive to scanned pages. Some websites offer many free read aloud children’s books online, while others have just a few.

Ten websites offering free online books.

CBeebies
Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood
DoozyMoo
Free Kids Books
Loyal Books
Magic Blox!
Maisy Fun Club
Sesame Street
Story Time From Space
Toon Books

I would love to hear your comments on the books on offer and if you know of any other websites offering free books for children.

Free Online Books for Children

CBeebies

The CBeebies this part of the BBC website is only available in the UK. The publically funded BBC is not always accessible worldwide. If you are in the UK, you will find animated and live-action stories, interviews and songs, many related to CBeebies favourite characters.

Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood

PBS uses the neighbourhood of Make Believe from ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood as a backdrop to these stories. Daniel, a shy 4-year-old-tiger, gets help from his family and friends to navigate his school and home life. The books will help children identify, express and understand their emotions.

Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood

DoozyMoo

Doozy Moo offers a range of fun picture books as part of a series. You can view them as a read-aloud video, PDF ebook and audiobook. You can mute the sound in the read-aloud videos so children can read the text independently. These free online books for children come with free related activities that promote reading comprehension skills and speech and language development.

Free Kids Books

Here you can find unique books to download or read online. The books are separated into categories for toddlers, children and young adults. You can also search for books by popular themes, such as animals, emotions, conservation, transport, among many others. There are also wordless books and some with dyslexic fonts.

Free Kids Books

Loyal Books

Loyal Books has a large collection of free children's books to download in many languages. You can download as an mp3 file and they have an iTunes podcast. Loyal Books organises their collection into many genres, including adventure, fantasy, humour, philosophy, science fiction, etc.

Magic Blox!

Magic Blox! provide accessible and free online books organised into categories for toddlers, children and young adults. Their collections include books from award-winning authors and books in different languages. There is a selection of free read aloud children's books online and Magic Blox! has several subscriptions to view additional books.

Maisy Fun Club

Read all about Maisy the Mouse and her friends in 4 books free to view online.

Sesame Street

Every week Sesame Street has several free online books for children. These books can be played automatically or you can turn each page manually. These free books are part of Sesame Street’s large ebook collection which costs $3.99 per month. If your child enjoys Sesame Street, it is definitely worth checking back every week for new free books!

Story Time From Space

What child wouldn’t love to have a real Astronaut read them a book from the Space Station! Story Time from Space is a non-profit endeavour from the Global Space Education Foundation. Astronauts on the ISS read both fiction and non-fiction books, and not just about space. Some astronauts conducted experiments on the space station are also on the website.

Story Time From Space

Toon Books

Professor Garfield’s Toon Reader offers 11 free graphic novels readable online. They provide books in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. The site also has further activities and lessons on a wide range of subjects.

In Conclusion...

I hope these website suggestions will give you and your students many hours of reading fun. After you have explored all the sites let me know what you think of the free books for children in the comments!

Do you have any other suggestions on where to get free online books? You can also check out other related posts on Children’s Library Lady below.

Do you have any other suggestions on where to get free online books for children? Remember to check out Free Online Children’s Books: 10 Of The Best Websites for more free books.

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