Most of the ebook links are for Kindle versions from Amazon. These are NOT affiliate links. Just trying to be helpful.
The ebooks were free at the time I found them. Please check before ‘purchasing’ them as things change quickly. Also, I have not downloaded all the books so can not vouch for the quality of them all.
This is another “I wrote it but forgot to publish it” post. It is still very relevant, only now we are a few years past this point. This list began as a way for me to keep track of the online resources we were using.
Here are several books I am reading with Jack, following Ambleside Online’s Year 1 curriculum. I have most of these either in audio version or borrowed from the library. My thinking was that I would see if we liked the books before actually buying them. I am also continuing to look for the ones we will use the full term on ebay and at local library sales, as a few dollars for a book is cheaper than potential library fees. It would also save on the hassle of having to return books only to then request them again. But mainly, it was because when I started planning for the year, I was not looking to spend a whole lot of money.
Fifty Famous stories Retold by James Balwin
Here is a LibriVox recording of the book. And Version 2.
The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess
I have not downloaded this book, but there may be no photos to accompany the wonderful text.
Here is a LibriVox recording of the book.
The Aesop for Children with pictures by Milo Winter (but without pictures)
Project Gutenberg – has pictures but I am not sure if you can put it on an ereader.
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
LibriVox recording
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Project Gutenberg version.
LibriVox Version 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Project Gutenberg version.
The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
Project Gutenberg version.
LibriVox version.
