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Classics

Sub-headings:

Aesops Fables
Grimms Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen

Resources in this category:

The Arabian Nights
http://lang.thefreelibrary.com/Arabian-Nights
Everyone’s heard of the famous tale 1001 Arabian Nights but how many of you have actually read any of these timeless stories? Read the first story "The Arabian Nights" to find out why the woman Scheherazade told them to the Sultan and then read a few of them for yourself!
Classic Children's Stories
http://childhoodreading.com/
Read classic children's stories and poems by authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Hans Christian Anderson with illustrations created especially for the stories by famous artists.
Fables, Fairy Tales, Stories, and Nursery Rhymes
http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/
In the mood for classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes? Here are stories by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland), Carlo Collodi (Pinocchio), and Mother Goose. Do you want to read some of the Aesop’s Fables? Link directly to those stories or let the Aesop’s Cube pick one out for you!
Kate Crackernuts
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/kate/
Molly Whuppie
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/molly/
An English Fairy Tale
Mother Goose on the Web
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/goose/
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/etext/piper/
Read the full text of this favorite childrens' story.
Pure Gold: Fables and Fairy Tales
http://fairytales4u.com/
A wonderful treasure of stories (from 1909!) of those stories you know and others you don’t. There are beautiful and fun pictures that go along with these fairy tales, myths, and fables as well as special sections for Aesop Fables, nursery rhymes, and fun poems.

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