Audio versions of Three Uncanny Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson are available as free downloads from ASLS and read online (via YouTube).
Tale o Tod Lapraik read by James Robertson
Thrawn Janet read by Alan Bissett
The Bottle Imp read by Louise Welsh
See website for more information:
https://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/StrangeTales.html
More online stories: Katy Parker and the House That Cried
Katy and Patrick travel back in time to WW2, and have to try to find their way home again. Author Margaret Mulligan is reading a chapter a week (complete with dog). https://t.co/TuK2oscE25
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The Book of Hopes: words and pictures to comfort, inspire and entertain children in Lockdown
This is a collection of stories, poems and illustrations from over 100 children’s authors and illustrators.
The Book of Hopes aims to comfort, inspire and encourage children during lockdown through delight, new ideas, ridiculous jokes and heroic tales. There are true accounts of cats and hares and plastic-devouring caterpillars; there are doodles and flowers; revolting poems and beautiful poems; and there are stories of space travel and new shoes and dragons.
https://literacytrust.org.uk/news/katherine-rundell-launches-the-book-of-hopes-a-free-childrens-book-by-over-110-authors-and-illustrators/
The book has been published online or free. To read it, please click on the link below
Neil Gaiman is one of the best writers around and he has released lots of free material on his websites for young people and adults.
Parents, please be aware that Neil Gaiman often writes creepy material which may be scary for some children. Others will love it 🙂
Mouse Circus is his site for young people, and currently includes full reads of the fabulous books, The Graveyard Book and Coraline.
There are also four short stories printed in full for reading and a whole load of activities and downloads based on Neil’s writing.
Grown ups aren’t forgotten either, and there are all sorts of interesting things on the adult part of the website, with free short stories, video clips, audio and other excerpts from his books.
Update (June 14th): now available over the summer.
World Book Day have made 22 audiobooks available for free, from picture books to teen fiction.
Stories can be streamed on computer, phone or tablet.
https://www.worldbookday.com/world-of-stories/
Audible have released a list of free audiobooks suitable for listeners from wee ones to teenagers (and big kids). All stories are free to stream to computer, phone or tablet. No membership or sign up required.
Titles are available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Chinese.
LibraryThing is a website that allows you to catalogue your stuff: books, music, films, anything you want really.
If you collect something, it’s a really handy way to carry your collection around with you on your phone. You even get your own wee catalogue called TinyCat!
You just download the app for free and use your phone’s camera to scan the barcodes.
NosyCrow are one of the publishers who have free material available on their website, including a weekly audiobook in instalments, daily picture books on YouTube, craft ideas and activity sheets, daily poems on Instagram and Twitter.
They also have lots of videos on YouTube, including author readings, character illustrations, Q&As, nursery rhymes and origami guides.
See their website for further details
https://nosycrow.com/blog/free-books-activities-and-resources-from-nosy-crow/
Comic Club have collected online comic resources together so you have a range to choose from on a single page. They include some comics for reading, and some ideas for making your own.
https:// comicsclub.blog/online-resources-2/
(NB: I’ve added a space into the link above so you can see the address)
This is another list of online comics, some suitable for primary and some for secondary pupils.
https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=webcomics-teens-tweens-free-middle-grade-YA
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