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Picture Books from Project Gutenberg

March 1st, 2008

In my last post, I indicated that I wanted to add some more children’s books to the flashcard offerings at Moone Leaf. Well, the folks at the Rosetta Project are a little possessive of their material. They use JavaScript to make downloading their images impossible and warn that taking images or text from the site is “electronic theft”. While I am pretty sure that copies of public domain images cannot be “stolen” and I am plenty able to use my mad screen-capture skillz to grab their images, I have decided to stick with using Project Gutenberg books for now, since there are plenty of them.

The main problem with Project Gutenberg, however, is that the books are not very well organized. While I can search on title or author, there is no way to search for picture books or books for young children. And so it has taken me quite some time to compile a list of picture books for possible conversion to this site. Since I am a caring, sharing sort of person, here is the list so far:

The Milkmaid

Come Lasses and Lads

The Babes in the Wood

The Tiny Picture Book

Ring ‘O Roses, a Nursery Rhyme Picture Book

Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross & A Farmer went trotting upon his Grey Mare

The Illustrated Alphabet Book of Birds

My First Picture Book

The Peter Pan Alphabet

Funny Alphabet

Dame Wonder’s Picture Alphabet

Fireside Picture Alphabet