Online Children's Literature Anthology

Readings are grouped (generally) by type.
Click on the title of the reading you wish below:

 

Myths and Fables

Why the Ant is Almost Cut in Two, a Kiowa Tale

Fables

 

Folk & Fairy Tales

Bluebeard, Charles Perrault
Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper, Charles Perrault
Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault

Aschenputtel (Cinderella), Brothers Grimm
The Frog Prince, Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel, Brothers Grimm
Little Red Cap, Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin, Brothers Grimm

The Little Match Girl, Hans Christian Anderson
The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Anderson

Jack and the Beanstalk, Joseph Jacobs
Lazy Jack, Joseph Jacobs
Master of all Masters, Joseph Jacobs
Molly Whuppie, Joseph Jacobs
The Story of the Three Bears, Joseph Jacobs
The Three Little Pigs, Joseph Jacobs

 

Poetry

from Mother Goose's Melody, John Newbery

The Owl and the Pussycat, Edward Lear

from A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson

from Poems to Solve, May Swenson

The Whirligig Beetles, Paul Fleischman

 

Miscellaneous Readings

from The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettleheim

Gretel in Darkness, Louise Gluck

Cinderella, Ann Sexton

The Cross of Gold and The Wizard of Oz, from The History of Money

The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Leguinn

from Anastasia Krupnik, Lois Lowry