I found an interesting website for practicing reading Hebrew. It has many children's books in Hebrew. Some are actual photocopies of very old books. Some are the Little Golden Books that I read when I was little. Some are folk tales from varous countries. There are several versions of old classics like "Little Red Hen" and "Gingerbread Man" and many others. There are books by Thornton Burgess and Beatrix Potter.
One of my favorites books to look at is called "A Day in the Life of Tony," written in 1900. The drawings are especially good. It was back in the days when women had long hair and wore long skirts and aprons. Tony's bed is a wooden box. Clothes are hung on clotheslines and father comes home from work carrying a spade. Geese wander through the street and there are no cars. Tony, who is just a toddler, cries easily and is pacified easily. He has many toddler adventures. He manages to escape from his mother while she is trying to shop, falls in the washtub, tries to eat a piece of coal, falls asleep in his father's arms at supper time.
The problem with this website is that the homepage is all vowels. I don't know what story I will get until I click a link.
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I would like to read "A Day in the Life of Tony" in English. It sounds very appealing.
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