Free kids books at the Baldwin Project

It's like the Gutenberg project for kids' books. The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project is the full title of a project whose mission states, "The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States." The site is the brainchild of Lisa Ripperton, a home schooling mom with a background in the classics and software development. Her husband is also a software person, and they share a love of books.

So the Baldwin project is the digitization of children's books (initially) that are in the public domain. There are hundreds of books available so far, complete with pictures, tables of contents, etc. There are all free, and some aren't even in print anymore. According to Lisa you can print these, provided you aren't going to use them commercially. To next time a kid asks you to read them a story, no excuses, just print out a book.

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