Free to read
Free Classic Stories for Kids
Read and listen to timeless adventures together — completely free. These are the whole stories, told for children, with nothing saved back for later.
No account, no email, no sign-up. The stories we sell are these same adventures with your child illustrated as the hero, and that's the only difference.
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Robin Hood
The whole story, told for children, and free. It takes about nine minutes to read aloud — a little longer if you do the Sheriff's voice properly.
Read 9 min · ages 3–8
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Peter Pan
Barrie's story, told for children, and free. About ten minutes to read aloud. This is our retelling — if you want Barrie's own words, they are worth finding.
Read 10 min · ages 4–8
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The Wizard of Oz
Baum's story, told for children, and free. About ten minutes to read aloud. Her shoes are silver in this one, because that is what he wrote.
Read 10 min · ages 3–8
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Aladdin
The old tale from the Thousand and One Nights, told for children, and free. About nine minutes. There are two spirits in this one, not one, and the boy starts out idle.
Read 9 min · ages 4–8
Why we give the whole story away
Because the story isn't what we sell. These four adventures have belonged to everybody for a very long time, and a child should be able to hear one tonight without anybody's card details. What we make is the version where your child is the one in the pictures — their face, drawn from a photograph, on every page.
Read one first, then decide whether your child should be the hero of it.
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