Whether you are a teacher looking for resources during online teaching or a parent looking to bond with your young ones, you are bound to love these 5 FREE websites with read aloud online books for Christmas and winter holidays for kids.

This list is sure to inspire some festive, holiday reading! 

Click on the highlighted links below that will take you to a myriad of FREE online editions of wonderful kids’ holiday books. They are perfect for reading on an iPad, Kindle, computer or smartphone.

1. Project Gutenburg has a wonderful Children’s Christmas Bookshelf with books sorted by popularity. It is full of classic stories, poems and children’s books that you’ll remember reading as a child. Several even have the original illustrations. 

2. Family Christmas Online has both illustrated and text-only Christmas stories. This site contains links to Christmas classics, as well as contemporary Christmas stories that are worth reading; especially out loud to your family during the Christmas season. They updated the site every year.

3. StoryNory has a wonderful selection of short holiday audio books that are perfect for children to listen to this time of the year. With more than thirty holiday books, this is great a site to bookmark for kids who love to listen to a good story.

4. American Literature also has a great Christmas Stories for Children collection which includes many holiday classics. 

5. Free Short Stories has Christmas Stories from famous authors that free and printable if the screen makes your eyes tired. They have a selection of famous short Christmas stories that will provide hours of reading pleasure! Just click away!

Which is your favourite online Christmas reading site?

Till next time…

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