Where To Find the Best Online Spanish Books for Free
Inside: How to find online Spanish books for free.
We all know that reading is one of the top ways to improve your language skills.
Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions.
– Stephen D. Krashen
Related: The Ultimate Collection of Spanish Children’s Books.
And there’s good news for Spanish learners: more and more books in Spanish are available these days!
Though I’ve already got lots of physical book lists for you, this post will concentrate on online books to read and enjoy for free.
ONLINE SPANISH BOOKS
For parents of bilingual kids, or homeschool families, online books can be a great way to supplement your Spanish collection.
For teachers, you can print some of these books as you set up a classroom library, or project them onto the board and use them in a whole-class setting.
And now, let’s get started! If you have more suggestions, please let me know in the comments below.
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Related: Spanish Audio Books
ONLINE SPANISH BOOKS with no log-in required
Let’s start with simple sites that have open access and do not ask for any log-in information or subscription. You can just click and go directly to the books!
1. MAGUARÉ
Recommended for intermediate Spanish learners and up.
Sponsored by the Colombian Ministerio de Cultura, Maguaré is a one-in-a-million find for Spanish materials. You can access over 100 picture books, poems, and tongue twisters online, and even print them.
A few books on the Marguaré site even have the option to print in black and white for kids to color. (A few are set to music or include audio as well).
Definitely bookmark this site if you are looking for high-quality printable Spanish books.
2. UNITE FOR LITERACY
Recommended for novice Spanish speakers.
Unite for Literacy is an amazing asset for beginners. All the books are written in very basic Spanish, with non-fiction themes like colors, toys, art, animals, and more. The site includes many other languages, in addition to Spanish!
3. Book Box
Recommended for novice Spanish learners and up.
BookBox has many Spanish or bilingual picture books read aloud on their YouTube. You can listen and read the text at the same time!
4. CHILDREN’S BOOKS FOREVER
Recommended for intermediate Spanish speakers.
Children’s Books Forever has a small collection of online books, in a variety of languages.
They are available for free and are printable.
5. Storybooks Canada
Storybooks Canada is an amazing project that highlights stories created from different regions of Africa, and provides books with audio in dozens of languages– one of which is Spanish!
6. The Fable Cottage
Recommended for intermediate Spanish speakers.
These are not technically online books, but rather story scripts of classic fairy tales and fables in Spanish, from the parent site The Spanish Experiment.
Some of these include audio and some do not, but the writing is well-done and kids will enjoy the fresh takes on these stories.
7. INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S DIGITAL LIBRARY
Recommended for intermediate Spanish speakers.
The International Children’s Library currently has 100+ books in Spanish for kids. They have lots of search options, for looking by age and topic, once you get the hang of it.
8. FABLES IN SIMPLE SPANISH
Recommended for novice Spanish learners.
If you are looking for online Spanish stories in told on a novice level, I have a few options on my site as well. You can check out my Fables in Spanish page, where I’ve retold famous fables in beginner language.
9. Story Weaver
Recommended for intermediate Spanish speakers and up.
Though you have to sign up to download the actual PDfs, you can access and read the 700+ stories on this site in Spanish for free.
10. Scholastic Español channel
Recommended for intermediate Spanish speakers and up.
Scholastic has made 30 children’s books in Spanish available on their YouTube channel. Though these are more movie-style than straight online books, this is where you can find some more famous titles.
11. Libros de lectura para niños
Recommended for intermediate Spanish speakers and up.
This site includes 50 PDFs of famous stories, mostly translated to Spanish. You can view or download the PDFs for free, which include mainly fairy tales or abridged versions from authors like Charles Dickens.
12. GRIMM STORIES
Recommended for intermediate Spanish speakers and up.
Technically, this site is full of online stories, not books. Grimm Stories offers dozens of fairy tales in Spanish, from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. All are available as a PDF for easy printing!
13. La Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos
Recommended for intermediate-advanced Spanish speakers.
The Mexican government provides dozens of free textbooks online in PDF format, including books and workbooks.
Related: Free Spanish Curriculum.
ONLINE SPANISH BOOKS That require a Log-In
These sites do require signing up or creating a log-in, but have some very high-quality content. If you are looking for an easy format to always have online Spanish books available, definitely look into these.
1. READ CONMIGO
Recommended for novice Spanish speakers and up.
Although you have to sign up with an email, Read Conmigo offers free online books in Spanish, targeted for ages PreK – 5th grade, with over 45 bilingual titles so far.
You can download onto your phone, a computer, or a Kindle. There App available, if you’d like a kid-friendly version on-the-go!
See the Read Conmigo site.
2. Reading A-Z
Recommended for novice Spanish speakers and up.
Reading A-Z is a huge resource of leveled readers, with an extensive collection in Spanish as well. (And when I say huge– we’re talking hundreds of books!)
Their site is extremely user-friendly and the books are organized by level, skill, topic, and type.
If you are looking for books to print, Reading A-Z does require a subscription. However, if you are just looking for online Spanish books, this may be the perfect fit for you.
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Hi I am an English speaking parent. However, my 11 year old son is in the 6th grade of a dual immersion elementary school for Spanish/English. The whole school has made the transition to Spanish but not the library. Funding is a problem but I also understand there is a difference between real Spanish books and ones that are English translated to Spanish books. So how can I find real Spanish books printed on paper to stock a library with?
Hi! I have a list right here, by native speakers:
https://spanishmama.com/authentic-spanish-books-for-kids/
norma
Thank you! I am learning Spanish, and these resources are great!
Love the collection 🙂 You can try childhood-stories.com. Its free and contains 100 simple Spanish short stories and many with slow audio 🙂
Ooh thank you!
I recommend this site. It’s better than the official one. https://librosconaliteg.online/
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Thank you so much for this! I learned Spanish through my parents and now I am teaching my children. I have always had a hard time finding spanish books even at the library. This is so awesome and helpful!!!!
Hi! I’m looking for free printable, black and white, beginner books (as in just a sentence a page and a few of the books using repetitive sentences). Spanish is my second language, but unfortunately, I don’t speak well enough to teach my kids the easy way (by just speaking all day). So, my next attempt is going to be with books. They can learn to read individual words easy enough, and there are plenty of books for them to practice with by the time they’re able to read KG books in Spanish. However, the step in between, is something I can’t find. Maybe someone will send link(s)? Thanks so much!!