Classics for Young People

For plain-text versions of these and other children's books, this gopher list of Public Domain Electronic Children's Books is a good place to start.

For a comprehensive search of many more texts, check The On-line Books Page, or Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet.

• Little Women - The UK edition (Part 1 of the US edition)
• Good Wives - The UK edition (Part 2 of the US edition of Little Women)
• Little Women - Includes Part 1 and Part 2.

• Fairy Tales and Stories

• Tom Swift and his Motor-Cycle

• The Young Visiters - Probably the only bestseller written by an eight-year old! From the Stone Soup website.

• Peter and Wendy (also known as Peter Pan)

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• The Marvelous Land of Oz
• Ozma of Oz (3rd in Oz series, 1907)
• Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (4th in Oz series, 1908)
• The Road to Oz (5th in Oz series, 1909)
• The Magic of Oz (13th in Oz series, 1919)
• The Master Key ("An Electrical Fairy Tale," 1901)
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
• A Kidnapped Santa Claus (1904)

• Little Lord Fauntleroy
• A Little Princess

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - The full text, complete with the John Tenniel illustrations.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; and, Through the Looking Glass - Illustrated (From a site in Germany)
• The Hunting of the Snark - Includes the illustrations by Henry Holiday.
• Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; and Snark - This version allows the user to customize the appearance of the text, set bookmarks, etc.
• The Many Faces of Alice - A website based on a fourth-grade study of Alice in Wonderland. It includes background information, as well as the complete text of the novel as illustrated by the class!

• A Christmas Carol- Illustrated

• 221B Baker Street - A good source for the Sherlock Holmes stories that are out-of-copyright, as well as pictures and sound files.

• Johnnie and Billie Bushytail

• Dream Days
• The Golden Age
• The Wind in the Willows

• A Apple Pie: An old fashioned alphabet book - Illustrated
• Little Ann and Other Poems (various authors with Greenaway illustrations)

• The Snow-Image
• The Snow-Image - Another version
• A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
• Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys

• The Chinese Boy and Girl

• The Gift of the Magi

• The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake
• The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Rip Van Winkle - With commentary
• Rip Van Winkle - illustrated by Arthur Rackham

• The Monkey's Paw - One illustration

• The Go-Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat (1916)

• The Swiss Family Robinson

• How the Leopard Got His Spots. Illustrated with photographs.
• The Jungle Book
• The Jungle Book - illustrated

• The Call of the Wild
• The Sea-Wolf
• White Fang

• At the Back of the North Wind
• George MacDonald stories from the Realist Wonder Society - Includes MacDonald's stories The Day Boy and the Night Girl, The Light Princess, and The Golden Key. Also includes a biographical essay by Roger Lancelyn Green.

• Anne of Green Gables
• Anne of Avonlea
• Anne of the Island
• Anne's House of Dreams

• The Little Lame Prince (1874)

• The Story of the Treasure Seekers
• "plain text" versions of more E. Nesbit books (at Project Gutenberg)

• The Belgian Twins

• The Tale of Mr. Tod - Illustrated

• Treasure Island
• Teasure Island - Another version, in the UK

• Gulliver's Travels - Illustrated, with commentary

• Penrod - Illustrated

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Illustrated, with commentary
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Tom Sawyer; and Huckleberry Finn - This version allows the user to customize the appearance of the text, set bookmarks, etc.

• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Slightly abridged ed.)

• The War of the Worlds

• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - illustrated

• The Canterville Ghost
• The Happy Prince
• The Nightingale and the Rose
• The Selfish Giant
• The Devoted Friend
• The Remarkable Rocket
• The Young King
• The Birthday of the Infanta
• The Fisherman and his Soul
• The Star-Child

• The Velveteen Rabbit, or, How Toys Become Real

• The Motor Boys(1906)
• The Motor Boys Overland (1906)