Look over there, a rabbit hole...

The Rosetta Project - the largest collection of illustrated antique children's books on line... Children's Books Online: Stories, poems, rhymes, chapters and illustrations.

You can either read the books online, or download the entire book to view/read locally.

The illustrations are neat to look at, here's an example of the cover from Alice in Wonderland:


Here's the "super index" of all the books in their online library http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/super-index.htm

They're also interested in volunteers.. both to scan antique books into their collection and also to translate books into other languages...

"The Rosetta Project is committed to having all our works translated into as many languages as possible -- even "dead" languages such as Latin, or "international languages" such as Esperanto or Yiddish."

"If humankind spoke it once, speaks it now, or plans on speaking it in the future, we're interesting in having that language represented in this collection. No Fooling!"