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The International Children's Digital Library <http://www.childrenslibrary.org/> is an online site with a collection of children's books from around the world.  ICDL's researchers have contacted the original authors for the works to include on the site's database.  The site's FAQ describes the background as:

The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a research project funded primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and Microsoft Research to create a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world. The project was introduced at an international celebration at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in November 2002. The collection's focus is on identifying materials that help children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live. The materials in the collection, all presented in the original languages in which they were published, reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, and lifestyles of peoples around the world. At the end of the initial research period, it is anticipated that the ICDL collection will include approximately 10,000 materials in at least 100 languages.

Since these are original scans from copyrighted works, you really shouldn't print these out, but they would be great to project in a classroom with an LCD project, interactive whiteboard or big screen TV.

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