University of Michigan
Making of America: Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, Retold by K. L. Bates
Digitization of "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims," an early twentieth-century illustrated version of Chaucer's famous tales.
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Kidoons: The Real Princess (Or the Princess and the Pea)
An animated version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, the "Real Princess" (or "The Princess and the Pea"). Website also contains coloring pages and games for children. Available in multiple languages.
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Sur La Lune Fairy Tales: Indian Fairy Tales
30 classic fairy tales from India, as collected and published by Joseph Jacobs in 1912. The writing style is formal but readable and each tale is accompanied by Jacobs' original notes. Examples of tales included: The Gold-Giving Serpent;...
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Playing From the Heart
Read a click-through story about rediscovering the joy of making music.
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Ink Pot: A Print Literary Journal
Ink Pot accepts short stories, poetry, and essays. Guidelines for submitting work, as well as samples of previously published entries, are readily available at this site. This site offers a great archive as well.
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Native American Bedtime Story Collection
This site provides eleven short stories based on different Native American stories. Stories from different tribes such as Navajo and Lakota.
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Children's Storybooks Online
This site has illustrated online children's stories, riddles, and coloring books.
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One More Story: William Steig: Pete's a Pizza
Listen and read along as Pete and his father have fun on a rainy day pretending to make Pete into a pizza in this children's picture book.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star
A story about the importance of following your own path through life, not the path others have taken. Told with great simplicity and beautifully illustrated, The North Star celebrates independence, spirited inquiry, and a life full of...
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Children's Storybooks Online: "Tiger Son"
Illustrated online story based on a Chinese tale written 300 years ago. "Tiger Son" is the story of a tiger cub adopted by an old woman and the relationship they form. You'll also find biographical information on Po Chung-ling, the...
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Lib.ru: Russian Prose and Science Fiction in English Translation
Collection of Russian prose and science fiction in English. Website features online texts of works by popular Russian authors and could be used by older students as a resource for studying English or Russian literature. Some broken links.
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Lib.ru: Classic Russian Literature
Great resource for finding online text for classic Russian literature in Russian. Features the most popular writers and their works. Valuable resource for students studying Russian. Russian-speaking ELL students might translate passages...
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Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Etext
Read these fairy tales at this student-friendly site. You can adjust the display to fit your own learning needs. See the actual cover and illustrations, and read the text in whatever size and font family you find most comfortable.
Tour Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Literature: Prose
The page gives an excellent summary of Costa Rican literature from the 1800s and 1900s. Authors and their works are described.
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Stony Brook University: Buddhism Study and Practice Group: Buddhist Stories
A large collection of Buddhist stories that encapsulate Buddhist beliefs and themes.
University of Maryland
Mary Shelley's Short Fiction
This index page links to the full text of four Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly short stories, including "The False Rhyme," "Ferdinando Eboli," "The Mourner," and "The Mortal Immortal."
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Tale of the Tooth Fairy
Teach about American culture while developing language, listening and reading skills. This lesson plan includes the TESOL goals and standards.It provides many follow up activities.
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Jc Online: Brincanda De Detetive
Short, illustrated children's detective stories collected by the well-known "Jornal do Comercio," a Brazilian periodical. Read the stories online and see if you can help Inspector Arruda solve the mysteries.
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 1904)
Useful mostly for its full-text versions of many of Chekhov's stories and plays, this site also offers some quotations, a picture and a bit of commentary.
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encyclopedia Mythica: African Mythology
From Encyclopedia Mythica, this page lists the names of more than a hundred characters, places, items, gods, and goddesses associated with African mythology. Click on an item to read more information about it.
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Jc Online Reading Room: Contos Infantis
This resource provides a collection of interactive stories, fables, and exercises for students.
Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental: Illustrate a Story: Puppies in Space [Pdf]
Print off this adorable story and draw your own pictures to go with it.
Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental: Illustrate a Story: Mystery of the Mummy's Maze [Pdf]
Print this short mystery story for your advanced English language learners to illustrate. The story gives preterit and pluperfect tense practice.
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encyclopedia Mythica: Greek Mythology
Encyclopedia Mythica offers a comprehensive resource on Greek mythology. Content includes a look at the principal gods, Zeus's consorts and offspring, the descendants of Prometheus, and much, much more. Click on "browse articles" for a...