Public domain children’s books · free to read, free to keep
Lil' Shelf
For the Lil’s.
Stories, rhymes and poems for reading aloud, picked for your child’s age. From the first lullaby to the last chapter book, all of it is free to read and free to keep.
There is something steadying about a book that has already been read to a hundred years of children. These ones are not going anywhere. Their copyright has quietly run out, which turns out to be a lovely thing rather than a sad one. It means they belong to everyone now.
Alice and Peter Rabbit, the Just So Stories, the nursery rhymes you did not realise you still knew by heart. They waited patiently for you, and now they are here for your little one too. No sign-up to read, nothing to buy, no story locked away.