Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children's Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online | Open Culture

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-03-02

Summary:

"Where the boundaries for kids’ literature had once been narrowly fixed by Latin grammar books and Pilgrim’s Progress, by the end of the 19th century, the influence of science fiction like Jules Verne’s, and of popular supernatural tales and poems, prepared the ground for comic books, YA dystopias, magician fiction, and dozens of other children’s literature genres we now take for granted, or—in increasingly large numbers—we buy to read for ourselves. Enter the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature here, where you can browse several categories, search for subjects, authors, titles, etc, see full-screen, zoomable images of book covers, download XML versions, and read all of the over 6,000 books in the collection with comfortable reader views. Find more classics in our collection, 800 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices."

Link:

https://www.openculture.com/2016/08/enter-an-archive-of-6000-historical-childrens-books-all-digitized-and-free-to-read-online.html

Updated:

03/02/2021, 04:23

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Tags:

oa.books oa.books.childrens oa.digitization

Date tagged:

03/02/2021, 09:23

Date published:

08/30/2016, 05:23