Online Story Sites

Online Story Sites
An Internet Hotlist on Online Storie Sites

created by TanyaTravis
Choptank Elementary

Introduction
In addition to using books and magazines to find out about Online Storie Sites, why not also use the power of the Internet? The links below will get you started.

The Internet Resources

Thinkport: Language Arts Online Clips (Video of Books) - Videos of books.

Various Stories

Aaron Shepherd's World of Stories - Folktales, Fairy Tales, Tall Tales,Myths, Legends, and more..
Amazing Adventures Series - Collection of original, illustrated stories. Read-along in RealAudio.
Awesome Stories - Enjoy these great stories as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, where you need them.
BAB Books - Elementary level online books.
BBC Cbeebies Stories -
Bartleby: Great Books Online - Online literature in many categories.
Bibliomania: Free Online Literature - More than 2000 texts with study and research guides.
Big Universe - Read books online or create your own books to share online.
Book Pop - Read stories online with the option of turning on audio at the same time. Elementary level.
Children's Short Stories -
Children's Storybooks Online - Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages.
Fletcher Hill Stories - Intermediate reading level online stories.
Inkless Tales - Primary online stories.
International Childrens Digital Library - Scanned picture books from around the world.
Just Stories - Numerous on-line stories, some from South Africa.
Literacy Big Books - Read elementary level books online.
Long Long Time Ago - Fables, folktales, fairytales, myths and contemporary stories from all over the world written or retold for children. Also provides story-based activities and invites children to share their own stories, poems, and illustrations.
Mighty Books - Animated books.
Picture Books Online - View and download collection of children's short stories, picture books, and gallery of artwork.
Starfall: I'm Reading - Primary and elementary stories online.
Stories for Children - Funny short stories for kids with music, special effects and pictures.
Story Place - Animated stories for primary or elementary students.
Story Time - Read online versions of Cinderella, Firebird, Arabian Nights, Rumplestiltskin, and Rani the Elephant. Stories can also be downloaded to Microsoft Reader.
Storyline Online - Great popular children's books read by famous actors!
Tar Heel Reader - Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens.
The Kennedy Center's Stories - The Kennedy Center has teamed up with RealNetworks to put some of the most popular children's books on computer screens around the world.
The Story Connection - Various stories uploaded online into documents.
Wendy's World of Stories for Kids -
byGosh - Free illustrated stories, kid's classics, novels, nonfiction, and poems.

Audio Stories

A Christmas Carol (Audio) - Listen to Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol in RealAudio - Directed and narrated by Karen Chan. Featuring Joe Balding as Scrooge.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Audio) - A dramatic audio performance of the classic book directed and narrated by Karen M. Chan with the Wired for Books Players and featuring Amanda Bosley as Alice.
Audio Stories - Read along to the audio of these stories.
Light Up Your Brain (Audio) - Audio stories for children.
Robert Munsch Books (Audio) - Robert Munsch audio books read by the author.
Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Audio) - Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, read by Alan Christy, including... How the Leopard Got Its Spots, The Beginning of the Armadillos, The Crab that Played with the Sea
Storynory (Audio) - Free audio stories for kids.
The Story Home (Audio) - FREE Audio Stories, Podcasts for Children. Original Stories, Classic Fairy Tales for Kids. Download mp3 or listen online.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Audio) - An unabridged dramatic audio performance of the classic book directed and narrated by Karen M. Chan with the Wired for Books Players and featuring Nicoletta Mazzocca as Dorothy.

Classic Stories

Classic Books Online -
Classic Children's Stories - Stories and poems by author and illustrator.
Classic Illustrated Comic Books - A collection of classics that have been turned into comic books.
Kids' Corner - Beatrix Potter Stories - A wonderful collection of Beatrix Potter Stories with text which students can view or you can download the audio of it and play it through your computer or download onto an iPod (students can listen to the story while reading the printed copy at the same time.
Page by Page Books - Hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free!
Read Print - Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.

Specific Genre

Ace Detectives - Join in the Adventures of the Ace Detectives - four teenagers from Australia - as they solve mysteries around the world.
Aesop's Fables - Read Aesop's fables. Site also includes the morals to the stories.
Aesop's Fables from UMASS - Read fables, some in flash.
Aesops Fables - Animated - Listen to animated fables by Aesop.
American Folklore - Read tall tales, spooky stories, myths, legends, and children stories.
Andersen Fairy Tales - Web-published children's books with Flash animation and narration. Featuring cartoons, e-learning, biography of Hans Christian Andersen, and links to the fairy tales.
Bunyips - Aboriginal stories from Australia including sound and animation.
Fable Library - Read fables online or read flash books that can also be downloaded.
Fairy Tale Land - Read fairy tales online.
Grimm Fairy Tales - Read and hear interactive, narrated, animated stories. Children's literature and folklore classics featuring animals, princesses, magic, and fabulous creatures! Grimm Brothers cartoon characters present a biography of Jacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. Online books link to e-learning, colouring downloads, arts, flash games, and other kidstuff.
Myth Web - This site is devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology.
Myths and Fables from Around the World -
Oban's Myths, Legends, and Fables -
Online Collection of Aesop Fables - Read Aesop's fables online.
SurLaLune Fairy Tales - SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations. Also discover over 1,600 folktales & fairy tales from around the world in more than 40 full-text eBooks.
Winged Sandals (Interactive) - Read and learn about gods, heroes, and monsters interactively.

Interactive Books

A Europe of Tales (Interactive) - An animated interactive site retelling the ancient myths and legends of their countries stories.
Childtopia - Animated stories with interactive questions in 5 languages.
LeTopWeb (Interactive) - 19 interactive stories sites for kids.

Book/Story Downloads

Many Books: Young Readers (Download Books) - A site with free books to download as PDF, e-Reader or Kindle) some of the featured stories are Anne of Green Gables and The Wind in the Willows.
Planet PDF eBooks (Download) - Download novels and books entirely free.

Content by TanyaTravis, ttravis@live.com
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Last revised Sun Oct 25 15:27:19 US/Pacific 2009