The Schoolasium Library
Step inside.Every story hasa shelf waiting.
A reading room for curious minds. Classics, science and folk tales from around the world, gathered on one shelf, warmly lit and always open.
- Storybooks✦
- Mathematics✦
- Folk tales✦
- Natural history✦
- Poetry✦
- Geometry✦
- Voyages✦
- Chemistry✦
- Fables✦
- Astronomy✦
- Classics✦
- Geography✦
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Book of the week
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · Classics & Storybooks
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
Follow a curious girl down a rabbit-hole into a world where logic turns somersaults. Start with the first chapter in our reading room below — the way it was printed in 1865, with room to make it your own.
The collection
Wander the shelves
Classics & Storybooks8 books
Stories that have been read aloud for a hundred years and still start arguments about the ending.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie · 1911
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame · 1908
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery · 1908
Heidi
Johanna Spyri · 1881
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum · 1900
Adventure & Voyages9 books
Maps, shipwrecks, rivers and far-off shores — books that make the bus ride home too short.
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne · 1872
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · 1719
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · 1876
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne · 1870
The Call of the Wild
Jack London · 1903
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling · 1894
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726
Science & Discovery6 books
Original ideas in the words of the people who had them, from candles to curved space.
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1859
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Albert Einstein · 1916
The Chemical History of a Candle
Michael Faraday · 1861
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin · 1839
Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott · 1884
The Elements of Euclid
Euclid · 300 BCE
Poetry & Folk Tales8 books
Rhymes, fables and tales that travelled across continents long before they were ever printed.
Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore · 1910
A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885
Aesop's Fables
Aesop · 600 BCE
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm · 1812
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen · 1835
The Arabian Nights
Andrew Lang (ed.) · 1898
The Panchatantra
Arthur W. Ryder (trans.) · 1925
Jataka Tales
Ellen C. Babbitt · 1912
Chapter I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
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So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
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The reading room
Open a book.
Stay a while.
Try the reader: a real chapter of a classic, set the way you like it. Turn the pages, change the light, make the type bigger — this is how every book reads once you’re inside.
Read anywhere
Phone, tablet or laptop — the page reflows to fit whatever is in your hands.
Progress that follows you
Close the tab mid-chapter and come back later; your place is waiting.
Shelves set by teachers
Classes get the chapters that matter this week, already on the desk.
Families can follow along
Parents see how far a child has read, not just what a test said.
For schools & classrooms
A library that knows your class.
Behind the shelves is Schoolasium Learn, a complete learning platform for K-12 schools. Every school gets its own address, its own shelves and its own people — teachers, students, families and administrators, each with a view built for them.
01Read
Books arrive chapter by chapter.
02Practise
Questions right where the idea lands.
03Show
Assignments and assessments in one place.
04Grow
Mastery tracked over time, not a single score.
Every school, its own shelves
The public reading room
Coming soon
Today these shelves are open to students and teachers at partner schools. Soon the doors open to everyone: a free, public reading room where anyone can walk in, pick a book and start reading.
School libraries
Students, teachers and families at partner schools read, practise and track progress today.
Public catalogue
Browse every shelf without an account and see what each book is about.
Public reading room
Open a chapter and read it on any device, free, with no sign-in.