
Children - Arts - Online Stories


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Amazing Adventure Series
- Collection of original, illustrated stories. Read-along in RealAudio.
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Children's Storybooks Online
- Stories for children of all ages, pre-school through young adult.
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Candlelight Stories
- Offers downloadable illustrated stories, online writing, and pen pals. You can also review your favorite books and games, and learn how animated movies are made.
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Beebo in DeliLand
- Offers stories on Beebo, a small boy who lives in DeliLand. Kids may also submit their own stories and read about fun activities they can do with their family. There are book reviews and periodic contests.
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Maggit and Friends
- Send letters or chat with Maggit. Read stories as well as play games.
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Ace Detectives
- Join in the Adventures of the Ace Detectives, involving four teenagers from Australia, as they solve mysteries from around the world.
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Short Stories By Kids
- Post and read short stories, enter contests, access writing and publishing resources and qualify for short story anthologies. This site is from Britain and is not COPPA compliant. It does require personal information to be given for contest entry.
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Bing Puddlepot's Instant Custom Picture Book
- A place where kids can create an illustrated storybook about themselves. Free book may also be printed for offline reading.
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Classroom Young Authors'
- Fourth grade students in Florida post their award winning writings on this home page.
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Stories by the Talewagger
- Stories for children, kids, and teenagers. You may either read them or write them.
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TaleSpinners
- All original online stories for children, kids, and teenagers.
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Cybertales
- Features original stories, jokes, puzzles, games and other activities for fun loving kids.
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The MacScouter Indian Stories
- Provides stories told down through the ages.
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Katie Did and the Neon Peach
- Illustrated rhyming stories for kids of all ages, as well as hundreds of coloring pages, puzzles and jokes.
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Zobo's Story Net
- Online picture stories with links to other sites of the same nature. New stories added regularly.
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Kids Corner
- Filled with educational and story links, fun sites, book news, munchies with mom and creative coloring.
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The Adventures of Sydney
- An interactive story about Sydney, a young girl in search of her lost cat.
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Marianne's Story Web
- Feature story is Zaroff's Revenge.
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A Monster Tale
- Can you make friends with the monsters under the bed? Hilarious story of how one little boy did.
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A Pocketful of Rhymes
- A huge collection of original, very funny rhyming stories and poems for kids that promote self-esteem and individuality.
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Story Brook Lane
- A collection of sign-alongs and stories with child-like drawings.
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Light Up Your Brain: Stories
- Streaming audio stories read by Chuck Brown.
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Tetramedia's Story Books
- A fun collection of illustrated, online stories for children of all ages including Silly Stories, Becky and Beans, and The Ecology Kids.
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Tippity Witchet's Beantime Stories
- Fun online stories for young children.
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Wondervista
- New illustrated story every week. Ideal for parents and children to read together. Site includes activity pages.
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
- Texts of many of Grimms' original fairy tales. Includes audio of some of the stories.
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The Secret of Colors
- A short, illustrated, online story about the use of colors in art.
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The Legend of the Yeti
- Stories and games about this creature said to live in the tallest mountains.
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Catnap
- An online children's art history picture book written and illustrated by Steve Norton.
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The Strange Mr. Free
- An eccentric time traveler takes two boys to the past for groovy adventures.
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SakesAlive E-Mail Adventures
- An interactive site wherein children of all ages can interact with fantasy characters via E-Mail. Features the works of Serendipity author, Stephen Cosgrove.
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Red Boots for Christmas
- Online children's Christmas story. Read along with the electronic storybook or view pictures of the characters.
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Kamran and Mapa
- A flying elephant sets out for adventure with his kangaroo friend. Includes puzzles and a coloring book feature.
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The Turtle and the Paintbox
- Read about this plain shelled-turtle and his adventures.
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Caractacus Bear
- Featuring the Ursans, a people from a parallel earth. Site is history based and includes quizzes and related links.
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Spywatch
- Join a group of children trying to catch spies in this interactive story. The story includes both educational and entertaining features.
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If You Love to Read
- Online novel about an American girl who goes to boarding school in England.
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Spin a Tale
- Interactive story for kindergarten through second grade. Classes may get involved by adding to the story or by responding to the story as a class.
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Painted Horse Stories
- Three illustrated stories; Cry Me A River, Taylor Rabbit, and My Monsta.
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Room 108 Stories
- A large collection of stories for kids. The storybooks have animation and sound.
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Princess Sleepyhead
- Illustrated by lovely photos, this story is about Princess Sleepyhead, and her search for the perfect bed.
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Moose Stories
- Stories about moose encounters from school children in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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The Timbuktoad Storyworld
- Explore The Lost Diaries, Time of Legends and the Story Theatre. Read The Road Through Timbuktoad.
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The Symphony of Friendship
- An illustrated story about how two enemies become friends through music.
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Bubble Dome
- An interactive children's website, where the user can walk in to a virtual story world, and interact with fun characters. Enter competitions, join the club and solve problems.
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Storybook Online
- Short stories and novels for children, a multimedia reading community for children and parents. Children can read, hear and see stories before them. Stories are available for many levels of readers.
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MrStoryTime.com
- Join Mr Storytime as he tells fun and educational stories, animated and narrated in Macromedia Flash, along with online games and activities.
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Tales from India for Children Everywhere.
- Read about ancient Indian legends or short stories set in modern times.
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Magical Kingdom - A real Magical Multimedia Playground for Kids
- Learn to do real magic tricks, read the animated storybooks, make toys and craft items.
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StoryPlace: The Children's Digital Library
- See and listen to multimedia stories for children in Spanish and English. Print out craft activities and reading lists.
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StuartStories.com
- Stories and writing activities, by Stuart Baum. Reading lists and writing contests included.
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Athropolis: Home of the Throps and the Squallhoots
- When three children land upon an iceberg - they meet Throps and the Squallhoots.
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My Own Rainbow
- Features a new children's story each day.
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My Wonderland
- Norma Jean Stevens' children's stories containing moral messages, with charming music and animations.
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Suzie Manley's Stories of Magic, Mystery, Travel, and Treasure
- Suzie Manley travels to Egypt every "digging" season to be with her mother. Here are some of the local stories she has collected.
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Children's Stories, Facts, and Recipes
- Interesting facts, stories, pictures, jokes, and recipes.
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EBD StoryTeller
- Over 5,000 stories, jokes and poems submitted by kids all over the world since 1997. Publish your own stories and poetry.
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Storygift
- Short stories for children written by Daniel E. Occeno.
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Christian Children's Corner Bible Stories
- Antelope Publishing presents free online Bible stories for young children.
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Tell Me A Story
- Short stories with graphics, music, and animation.
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PrimaryGames.com Bookshelf
- Dottie's Garden, an animated e-book. For beginning readers.
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Rainy Day Corner
- A place to publish their art and writing. Other content crafts, parent corner, book reviews.
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Tumblebooks
- Animated picture books online. Download free books and the free TumbleReader to enjoy e-books offline too.
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The Tale of Christopher Caterpillar and Sammy Snail
- An illustrated story about two little buddies, a caterpillar, and a snail.
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Jimmy and the Golden Gate
- An illustrated story for children by Evelyn Sichi about a young boy who wants to see the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Grammas Tales
- A collection of stories with illustrations.
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Faithful John, the Animated Story of
- Faithful John is a story of adventure, magic spells, and faith, based on the children's literature classic by the Brothers Grimm.
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The Fin Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation
- The FFFBI is an animal-based government crime fighting agency that battles many foes, most notoriously CRUST and the Cyber Tooth Tigers. Kids ages 8-12 act as self-appointed field agents, filing their own reports to the Bureau and solving mysteries.
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Teen-Nest.com - Teenage Serial
- Fictional teenage serial about the successes and failures and trials and tribulations of teen school and social life - new chapters posted weekly
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Farmhouse Fables
- Childrens stories and fables from Farmhouse Fables, short storybooks for children.
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e-Me-A-Story
- Library of electronic picture books. Requires free registration.
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The Helical Library
- Showcase of poetry, stories and works in progress set in a quirky comic fantasy universe.
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Light Up Your Brain
- Stories for kids in streaming MP3 audio, plus games and links for learning and fun. Requires Flash plug-in.
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Timeless Eternal
- Online fantasy world includes cartoons, storytelling, games, and contests.
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Summer Reading
- Book guide with activities and games designed to keep the pages turning.
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Allen Morgan On-line
- Offers free on-line children's stories by Canadian author Allen Morgan. New stories every two weeks.
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17 X the Moon
- 21st century fairy tales and fables by Alison Pegg with music, animation and sound effects.
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Kids Korner and Toddler Tales
- Collection of free, illustrated online stories for kids.
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Stories From The Web
- Read stories, learn about the authors, and write your own stories.
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Story Hour
- Online stories for kids from The Internet Public Library.
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Zynez
- Share poetry, stories, and artwork. Includes a monitored chat as well as message boards that are constantly updated and edited.
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TooTooLand.com Storybooks
- A collection of cartoon-like storybooks with simple text and sound effects. For young children and beginning readers.
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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.
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NovelClick.com for Kids
- Features original stories about the adventures of four best friends Mark, Danny, Caitlin and Kathy. Also includes games, moview reviews, and jokes.
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John Deere Kids
- Online adventures of Johnny Tractor and his friends, from John Deere Tractors.
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Ruthie's Stories
- Stories presented by this puppet on her web site.
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Halloween! Halloween!
- A short story about a spooky holiday.
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The Un-Birthday Party
- The girls and dolls all have a party to celebrate their un-birthdays.
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Angus the Tartan Goat and Other Scottish Stories
- Animated children's stories. Read by Gordon Nicol in a rich Scottish accent.
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Love's Song
- A sad love story written by a teenager.
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Fun Pages For Kids
- Illustrated stories, fun pages, educational games, activities.
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Stories for Children
- Stories written mainly by kids for kids with music, effects and graphics for illustration.
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Avery Hill Bedtime Stories
- Selection of illustrated children's bedtime stories suitable for many ages.
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The Three Little Stars
- An online children's story about the bond between sisters.
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Read a Story
- Read the two stories first and then vote for the one you would like to see as a real book next.
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The Touch of Kindness
- Introduces the tale of Little Wings, the Tooth Fairy, in pictures, story, and music.
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Tales from the Little Woods
- Tales about the adventures of a faerie named Wee One.
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Frogwart and the Tooth Fairies
- A story about a witch named Frogwart and the three Tooth Fairies.
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A Scandal Among the Flowers
- A sprite courts a rose bud.
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Magic Shadow Shapes
- A list of fantasy stories, poems, and other activities to do on this website .
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Fairier-Than-a-Fairy
- A story about a young fairy who finds the prince of her dreams.
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The Magic Crystal
- A story of a girl who wishes life was easier. So a wizard helps her out.
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Urban Fairies
- The Wandering Wizard a very well known online story character meets the Urban Fairies . Family-friendly for children of all ages.
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The Wizard of Rainbow Valley
- A story about a wizard of an enchanted valley who does magical things.
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Contest of Fairies
- A Prince and Princess that are in love with each other get in the middle of two fairies each one will do anything to become queen of Fairyland.
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Snow White and the Magical Mirror
- The original story of Snow White mixed up and more magical. More magical characters and illustrations.
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Thumbelina
- You can listen to this story or read it by your self. It has one character the normal story doesn't have, a fairy.
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Dragons Greed
- In this story a young dragon has many adventures.
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Magic Fairies
- Fairy poems and pictures. Includes the lullaby Enchanted Tulips.
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The Wizard King
- A story about a very adventurous king wizard.
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Web-Pop -Totally Trolls
- Four trading troll stories with illustrations. Links to Serendipity, Flutter-Bys, and other Stephen Cosgrove books.
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If You Really Try You Could Meet A Fairy
- A short story about a fairy's fairy tale.
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Dalain The Dwarf
- Read how Dalian finds him self with a huge giant.
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The Little Elf
- Tales of an elf and his woodland friends.
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Absolutely Whootie: Stories to Grow By
- Fairy tales, folk tales and other great children's stories, courtesy of Whootie Owl.
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Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales
- Funny stories that deliver a message and silly poems that bring a smile.
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Fablevision Place
- Visit the Fable Library for online stories and tune in to Fable Radio to hear stories online.
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A Rocky Mountain Fairy Tale
- An illustrated online book for children of all ages, about protecting the environment.
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If All The Seas Were Ink We'd Call Them Fish Tales
- Fairy tales, rewritten for the enjoyment of children and adults, with color illustrations.
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Editec Children's Books
- Illustrated, online children's books including a large selection of classic stories, rhymes, and fables.
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Bedtime Story
- The criteria for a tale's inclusion on the Bedtime-Story site, is that the story must be as pleasant for an adult to read, as it is for a child to hear. Recommended age group is 6 and up.
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Children Stories and Folktales from Indonesia
- Collection of children stories and folktales by Renny Yaniar. In English and Indonesia.
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Animated Grimm Fairy Tales
- Read, listen, and look at the Grimm Brother's Fairy Tales in these fully animated versions. [Flash required]
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Bremen Town Musicians
- A fully animated version of the classic tale.
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The Folk Tales Project
- International school project presents folktales of many different countries written and illustrated by school children.
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Andersen Fairy Tales
- Fully animated book brings classic tales to life.
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Childrenstory.com
- Provides a selection of traditional fairy tales. Includes illustrations.
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Ezone Productions
- Illustrated fairy tales, fractured fairy tales, and fractured myths.
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The Colorful Story Book
- Online version of this book published during WWII includes illustrated versions of Puss in Boots, The Three Little Kittens, The Three Pigs, The Three Bears, Rumplestiltzkin, The Owl and the Pussycat.
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Baron Von Lodge in Lilliland
- A collection of single-page morality tales about Baron Von Lodge, the ruler of Lilliland, Lady Angela, and their friends and fellow countrymen.
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Animated Princess and the Pea
- Listen and read along with this classic tale. Site requires Flash plug-in.
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Animated Classic Fairy Tales
- Fully animated fairytales as well as other online stories for kids.
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Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project
- Offers dozens of illustrated children's classics in .HTML format. Books may be read online or downloaded for offline viewing. Some titles available in multiple languages.
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Joe the Elf's Journal
- Illustrated legends, folk and fairy tales, and gnome stories.
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Celtic Myths
- Interactive site introduces children to the heroes of Celtic mythology.
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I Wish- An Adventure In Time
- A story about Sara Yiler's journey back in time to 1912.
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A Europe of Tales
- Features European myths and legends of everything from the snowy witches of the north to the mysterious montain of the south.
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The Barker Boys And The Great Stone Of Gwondala
- The first adventure in a series of ebooks about two brothers transported to the land of the dinosaurs through a time-hole in a bedroom closet.
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ElfmanWorld
- The on-line home of Eric Elfman, author of "The Almanac of the Gross". This site includes Gross Facts and Scary Stories.
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MacScouter: Ghost Stories
- Collection of tales and poems, suitable for sharing 'round the campfire.
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The Moonlit Road
- Spooky tales for older kids from American South storytellers.
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The Ghosts of Sweet Briar College
- The founding family still watches over this Virginia women's college. Students and Alumnae tell their stories.
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Phoophie
- Tales to read to parents on a dark and stormy night.
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Malibu Books For Children
- Read about a baby monster who must deal with his fear of that awful, terrible, ferocious boy under the bed.
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Life Story Writing For Kids
- Even children can write their life stories. When a child writes about themselves and their family, it gives them great feelings of pride and a sense of value.
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Tonya Takes You Touring
- Tonya is 14. She takes you on a world tour through time, seeking fashion ideas, famous people, and real places. She shares how she feels about everything. Soon to be coming in French, German, Spanish, and Japanese.
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Bridget: A Burn Survivor Story
- Over 8 years ago, Bridget was in a house fire. Learn how Bridget saved her own life and the life of her best.
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The Strange War - Stories for a Culture of Peace
- Stories about the causes and the origins of war by Austrian children's book author Martin Auer. In 22 languages.
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Amazing Fantasy Adventures of Meagan and Kate
- A science fiction story for older children, mixing actors and computer generated graphics.
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Tweeker The Speaker
- Children's illustrated adventure story set inside a computer.
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The Machine Elves
- Three friends find more than they expected when working on a virtual reality program.
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Balenn
- A science fiction tale about the capture of 3 Sasquatch in the mountains of Alberta Canada.
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Fresh World
- A young girl colonizes a new planet and discovers she has telepathic abilities that warn them of a coming invasion.
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Libroman
- Interactive story about a superhero who encourages and teaches kids about the power of reading books.
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Adventures of Banph
- The adventures of Banph, the noble ant knight.
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LittleFatRat.com
- Features a coloring storybook that may be downloaded and printed directly from the site.
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The Adventurous Bunny and Easter Island
- A shipwrecked bunny is taken to Easter Island, and with the help of island creatures, becomes the Easter Bunny.
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Animals Myths and Legends
- Tales of animal myths and legends. Read stories, solve puzzles, play games, meet a dragon, and help save a world.
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Animal Stories
- Small collection of original short animals stories.
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Ant Bee's Stories
- Free, complete children's stories with fun illustrations.
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Bembo's Zoo
- A stylish animal alphabet site with illustrations created from the letters in each animal's name. Site uses Macromedia Flash.
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Zoo Place
- Online stories and pictures about animals and zoos.
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Chi Chi In Cyberspace
- Educational children's site based on the book ,"Chi Chi In Cyberspace". Have fun exploring a story about Chihuahua puppies who email each other. Free kids art.
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Chunky Monkey Fan Club
- The original Chunky Monkey stories and characters.
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Dr. Owl Online
- Online stories, as well as a talking book designed for parents and children to read together on the Internet. Also includes a talking dictionary and phonics workshop, as well as words in other languages.
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Hi Monkey
- The adventures of monkey - a small terry cloth primate. He has a nice personality, he tells good stories and he's a good cook.
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Diamond's Site
- Original cat stories as told to Diamond the cat.
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John and El's Bear Time
- Two little teddy bears, John and El, star in their own adventures. Featuring stories, songs and art.
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Whiskertails
- A set of ongoing animal stories.
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Gumpy Pig's Story Page
- Stories about Gumpy Pig and his friend James. Gumpy loves adventures, laughing and strawberries. In the first story Gumpy Pig drives a train.
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Kamran and Mapa's First Travel Book
- Adventures of a traveling kangaroo and elephant and how they learn about wisdom, truth and love.
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DreamBox StoryBox
- Two stories with color illustrations, about bears.
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Koala Trouble
- The adventures of Max, the baby koala.
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Travels with Mousey Home Page
- A stuffed animal who doesn't believe he's a toy, but a real mouse and a famous Egyptologist to boot. Come along for a mouse-eye-view of Ancient Egypt.
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Sunshine Duck Stories
- Educational stories for children featuring Sunshine Duck.
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Transora The Flying Cat
- A story about a kitten that learns to fly with birds.
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Tate's Advent Calendar
- About the adventures of Tate the cat, and his owner Pete. Every day in December, a new page is added to the story. Also available to read are stories from 1997 and 1998.
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Dinosaur Tales
- Offering dinosaur stories, news, and children's creative writing.
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Story Bear
- Two online stories for young children. From Little Animals Activity Centre.
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Merpy's World
- Each month a new animated, interactive and musical adventure is featured with Merpy, Jeremy Dragonfly, and their friends.
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Panda Bears Playhouse
- Interactive stories with animated graphics and sounds to hold the interest of children.
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Storydog.com
- Original online story series about a mischievous little dog named Vinny and his pals. A new story with original illustrations launches every Sunday and unfolds each day through Thursday.
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Children's Reading Room
- From The Museum of Unnatural History, a collection of stories about Bunny and his friends.
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All Free Online Children's Books
- Offers two animal stories geared toward young children. Includes audio and reading comprehension quizzes.
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Cabbit Story
- Story about a real life rabbit that thinks he is a cat and his adopted mother cat that loves him.
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Wesley the Dalmatian
- The adventures of this sometimes naughty dalmatian with subtly suggested morals.
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Web-Pop
- Interactive books and serialized stories driven by the adventures of tiny bio-electronic life forms called the Web-Poppers. Listen or read.
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Cherbear Stories
- Christian stories, tidbits for the soul, insight cavern and daily encouragement.
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Geronimo's Adventures
- The fun adventures and travels of Geronimo Bear.
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Ain't Got No Honey For My Oats
- A story of a bear's failure to notice 'that people will like him for him, and not what he can give to them. Will Teddy learn his lesson?
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Romeo the Dorrigo Glow Worm
- Follow Romeo's musical adventure with his friends of the Australian bush. Kids music, children story and sing songs.
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Roy Gilroy in the Children's House
- Storybout a Persian cat visiting a Montessori Preschool in Orange County, California.
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Reading Rover
- Read about an Internet-surfing hound dog.
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The Footprints in the Snow
- A short story about Megan, her dog, her kitten, and another creature who has left its footprints behind.