Russian tales usually have a lot of old language used in them, so it won't be easy for a beginner to read them. Maybe you should try this, it was one of my favourite books when I was a kid. Николай Носов - Приключения Незнайки и его друзей (Nikoláy Nósov - The adventures of Neznáyka and his friends). Neznayka is a boy who's name means "I don't know" (Я не знаю = I don't know): http://lib.ru/NOSOW/nezn1.txt PS: You can find many other Russian authors on this site, lot's of us use it to find some book on the internet.

This is a useful site as well http://www.italki.com/knowledge/Contribution.htm?n=Useful%20sites%20for%20learning%20Russian

Hi Tim this is site http://tululu.ru were there are a lot of books, which you can read on-line. You should draw attention those categories Детская литература or Книги о любви, романы if it seems you difficult, You can try load some textbook for children on the link http://mirknig.com/index.php?do=gsearch&q=%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%20%D1%87%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5

Hi Tim! I’ll be surprised if somebody of native Russian speakers will help you because they don’t read SIMPLE stories. To learn English I try to use BBC.com or Euronews.com on both language: English and Russian. It’s useful. You can use one of popular news website Rambler.RU. Some stories here are shot so maybe they are simple. Good luck!