Online Stories for Children

1. The Lantern (A Ramadan Story) is about the special festive lanterns that light up the nights during Ramadan or Hari Raya.


2. Ramadan Chant is a Ramadan song for kids about remembering the poor


3. My Favourite Day - Eid al Fitr is a short story about how Eid al Fitr is celebrated. Kids can also make an online Eid al Fitr Jigsaw and watch the firecrackers explode.

Children learn from stories, so one of the ways to teach them morals is through stories with a moral in them. I have been looking for interactive animated moral stories but so far apart from YouTube, there has not been that many.

This site AesopFables.com has an extensive list of Aesop's Fables that you can read to your child. However, it is in plain text. I prefer animated stories to capture the attention of the young child reader.

Here are two animated aesop's fables I found from an unlikely source. Cartoon Soup is an e-card site.They have a section called eCardToons where you can send online fables as cards as a subscriber. However, you can view the moral stories for free online.

I like this Story Builder from Squigly's Writing Corner. I especially like the Holiday Story Builder where kids can build their own personalized online stories from a variety of ready to complete stories for the holidays including online St Patrick's Day stories, Easter, Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's and Mother's Day.

All the child has to do is fill up his name and a few other words in a form, then click "build story" then he or she can read their personalized stories online. Its a great tool.

Your child can use this online story builder to build funny stories for this coming St. Patrick's Day as well as Easter with stories like The Best Easter Ever, Easter Morning, Easter Surprise, Happy Easter.

The International Children's Digital Library

Do you bring your children to libraries? Libraries are wonderful places for children to sit and discover books and the world. Children can look beyond themselves and their surroundings by reading books from all over the world.

Imagine if this library from all over the world can be brought to your home. The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) has done just that. Now your child can read books from all over the world by browsing this International Digital Library for Children. The ICDL has a varied collection of children's books in their online library for kids. It has stories, poems, comics and books in many languages including Arabic, Persian, Slovenian, Spanish, Malay, Chinese, Korean, English, Hebrew and many other languages bringing books to kids from all over the world in their languages.

You can search for award winning children's books, search by country, by author but the most fun way to search for the children's online books is by simple search.

The Open Library

The Open Library is more useful for older kids. Here's how to use the Open Library. Like the ICDL, it is a digital library with books you can read online. However unlike the ICDL where you can easily find chidlren's books to read online, at the Open Library, you'd have to do a search for a term, for example "storybooks" or think of any other term to help you find online stories for your child. Select "only show e-books" to narrow down your search otherwise you will get many results with where to borrow a physical copy of the book.

Here is the search results for the term "storybooks". If you click on that, you will see "read", "borrow" or "daisy". You can read those with "read" immediately. You will need an account to read those listed as "borrow". Others may be Adobe ePub or Kindle books. You will need the specialized ebook reader to read those. As for those listed under "daisy", you will need a special "key" issued by the Library of Congress NLS Program. (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped). The Daisy books are digital talking books for people who have challenges using regular printed media.