We put together 45 Spanish books for kids you can download free in PDF. Fairy tales, fables and full classic novels, all in Spanish and in complete editions.
Every title is sorted by age, from 4 to 13. You find the right reading level without opening file after file, whether your child is sounding out first words or ready for a full novel.
The collection brings together the classics of children's books in Spanish, from Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen to the Brothers Grimm. Download as many as you want, no sign-up.
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Fairy Tales
Short Stories and Fairy Tales in Spanish for Kids
Short stories are the easiest first step for a child starting to read in Spanish, with Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Andersen side by side. Most run a few pages, which makes them work as bedtime stories or as a first read in the language.
Perrault's tale of the girl in the red hood who strays from the path on her way to grandmother's house. Seven illustrated pages make it one of the shortest reads here, a good first story in Spanish.
The classic story of the girl who leaves a slipper behind at the ball, told in Perrault's original version. Full color illustrations across fifteen pages carry the story for children who cannot yet read alone.
Perrault's tale of the princess who sleeps for a hundred years after pricking her finger. This twenty-eight page edition keeps the full second half of the story that most retellings leave out.
The boy no bigger than a thumb who outwits an ogre and saves his six brothers. Illustrated throughout, with short paragraphs that suit a reader building confidence in Spanish.
A cat in boots turns his penniless master into a marquis through pure cunning. This illustrated edition runs twenty-one pages and reads aloud in a single sitting.
The Brothers Grimm version of Snow White, the jealous queen and the seven dwarfs. Seven pages with large illustrations, short enough for a bedtime story.
Two children abandoned in the forest find a house made of sweets and the witch who lives in it. At four pages this is the shortest text in the collection and a good starting point for young readers.
The girl locked in a tower with hair long enough to serve as a ladder. The large format illustrations make this edition work well when read aloud from a screen.
Four aging animals leave their farms to become musicians and end up scaring off a band of thieves. Three pages of plain text, useful for reading practice without illustrations to lean on.
The piper who rids a town of rats and then takes its children when the payment never comes. Five pages that open a conversation about keeping promises.
Andersen's story of the mermaid who trades her voice for legs and a chance at life on land. Seventeen illustrated pages that keep the original ending rather than the softened one.
Two swindlers convince an emperor they have woven a cloth invisible to fools. Twelve illustrated pages, and one of the sharpest short stories for talking about honesty with children.
A one legged tin soldier survives a gutter, a fish and a paper boat to return to the dancer he loves. Illustrated across twelve pages, short and complete.
Forty short stories gathered into one file, each with its own illustration. At 173 pages it works as a single reference for months of bedtime reading in Spanish.
At this age what works is the short story, illustrated and with repetition. These Spanish picture books were picked to be read out loud with an adult nearby, and they include El principito and Las aventuras de Pinocho.
The wooden puppet who lies, runs away and slowly learns what it costs to grow up. Collodi's full novel in Spanish, divided into short chapters that suit reading one per night.
Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a world of talking animals, riddles and shifting sizes. The complete text in Spanish, and at eighty-two pages one of the shorter classics here.
A girl sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps, and what happens when she is taken away to the city. The complete novel in Spanish, warm and easy to follow.
A pilot stranded in the desert meets a boy from another planet who asks the questions adults stopped asking. Thirty-four pages with the original drawings, short enough to read in one afternoon.
The bear and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood, in a series of self-contained chapters. Illustrated throughout, with the gentle humor that works for reading aloud.
Pombo's comic verse about an old woman who has everything and complains about having nothing. The rhyme and the wide illustrations make it a favorite for reading out loud.
Darío's poem about a princess who goes up to the sky to cut down a star. Six pages of verse and illustration, and a first taste of Spanish language poetry for children.
The child reads alone now and wants adventure. El libro de la selva and Cuentos de la selva, by Horacio Quiroga, give Spanish learners real reading stamina without demanding advanced vocabulary.
An orphaned girl arrives at a shuttered manor and finds a walled garden nobody has entered in ten years. The full novel in Spanish, with chapters short enough to read alone.
A horse tells the story of his own life across the hands of many owners, kind and cruel. Illustrated across 119 pages, and still one of the strongest arguments for treating animals well.
A shipwrecked family builds a life on a tropical island using whatever they can salvage or invent. Long but episodic, so it can be read a chapter at a time.
Quiroga's animal stories set in the jungle, written for his own children. Fully illustrated, and the entry point to one of the great Spanish language storytellers.
Two friends chase a mystery around a green stone in a contemporary adventure written originally in Spanish. Illustrated on nearly every page, and the only modern novel in this collection.
This is where the full classic novels come in, in PDF and in Spanish. Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer and La isla del tesoro carry a reader for several days.
A map, a schooner and Long John Silver, in the novel that set the template for pirate stories. Illustrated across 122 pages and fast from the first chapter.
A talkative red-haired orphan is sent by mistake to a farm that wanted a boy. The full novel in Spanish, and the start of one of the best loved series for this age.
Alice steps through a mirror into a world laid out as a chess game. Carroll's sequel, denser in wordplay than the first book and a better fit for older readers.
Accessible adult literature, in Spanish and uncut. La llamada de lo salvaje and Los viajes de Gulliver work as school reading and as reading for pleasure.
A wealthy girl at a boarding school loses everything and has to work out who she is without it. The full novel in Spanish, harder in tone than El jardín secreto.
A domestic dog is stolen and sold into the Yukon, where he finds out what he actually is. London's short novel in Spanish, ninety-one pages and unsparing.
Four voyages to invented nations, each one a mirror held up to Swift's own. The complete satire in Spanish at 490 pages, not the abridged children's version.
Phileas Fogg bets his fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days. Verne's full novel in Spanish, with a chase running underneath the travelogue.
