The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.

Free downloadable eBooks provided by Barnes & Noble

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Free viewable or downloadable children's books

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.

15 nonfiction read-along books for early learners
Listen and Read activities tell their story through words, images, and sound. You can use these online activities in a variety of ways, from one-on-one instruction using a computer or tablet to class instruction on an interactive whiteboard.

Use search to find difficulty and interest levels of children's/young adult books. You can also click "Discover New Books" to find books by Reading Level or Grade Level.

By MetaMetrics, identify reading material by grade level or lexile score.

A collection of picture book abstracts searchable by topics, concepts, and skills for building content area reading across all academic subjects. The collection contains abstracts of over 5800 picture books for children, preschool to grade three.

Free database, produced by a reference librarian at California State University, San Bernardino
Covers more than 15,000 books chosen for 164 awards across six English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland)
Searchable by criteria including suggested reader age, genre, ethnicity / nationality / gender of protagonist, and historical period.

Collection of outstanding literature for children and adolescents in grades prekindergarten through grade twelve in all disciplines.
From the California Department of Education

Reviews of international children's and young adult literature.
Hosted by the University of Arizona.

Children's books are located on the 2nd floor of the public library on Caroline Street in downtown Fredericksburg. Memberships are always free!

A local bookstore dedicated to children's books located in downtown Fredericksburg.

Local bookstore in downtown Fredericksburg, and has a large children's book collection