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Fun Activities for Kids
Here’s a couple of quick ideas for fun activities to do with your children. A Bus Box: Paint a conveniently sized box, glue and colour some old CDs for wheels, then stick on some white card windows, and have fun with putting some people in from magazine cutouts. Bottle tops or coloured card can make [...]
PDF Books on I-PAD/Tablets and Kindle
I am hoping to get some feedback on how the children’s pdf books look on other electronic devices. Some viewers say there are formatting issues, others say they work fine. Not having a kindle or i-pad myself, I’d love to hear from those who do. Should we convert books to e-pub, i-books and other formats, [...]
Have Faith Proof Reading Services
I’ve just put up a link in the side bar to Faith Carroll’s site http://www.havefaithproofreading.com/ . I met Faith on one of Lulu’s forums, back when Lulu was more author focused. She seemed to have a nice attitude towards editing, and so when I needed an editor for a charity project, I asked Faith to help. To my [...]
Latest Books, and Most Popular Books
We’ve got two new books on the site for February, Bubu the Fox returns in “The Best Christmas Gift”, and a lovely story about “A Lost Egg” with many opportunities for adlib lessons by the reader/supervisor, they are on the top of our home page by default, or can be found by a sort by [...]
To Teachers
This post is dedicated to great teachers our there, in recognition of the immense responsibility you have, the difficulty of the duties required, and the great jobs you all do meeting it. We live and work in” (FKB) “an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher [...]
Children’s books in Different Languages
Danielle Bruckert We’ve just put up Hero of the Mountain by Ivan Parvov, and I wanted to point out that this book is available number of different languages, including Arabic and German, on Ivan’s site, http://www.bubutales.com. It is difficult enough to find good childrens books in English, and must be nearly impossible in another language. Because Ivan has [...]
Free Hard Copies of Colouring Books for Kids in Need : Western Graphics
(Just to note before you start reading: If you’re looking for the free copies this post probably won’t help, but if you want to hear the story about how they came about read on:-) Around a year ago, out of the blue, I received an email from Tim Keran at a company called Western Graphics. [...]
Books on Movie
We are presently compiling a list of books on video to add to the website’s free literacy resources. In lieu of the new “movie page” specifically for this purpose, I’m collecting links here (by way of comments), and on the new category links list in the sidebar. If you haven’t yet put your book on [...]
More on How Free Stuff can Help Sales
By Danielle Bruckert Here’s a link to a blog which expands the ideas we’ve reported in the post on ‘Why Free?’ (http://freekidsbooks.org/blog/2011/02/why-free/): http://www.bookbuzzr.com/blog/book-marketing/12-ways-to-market-your-book-by-giving-away-free-stuff There’s some great food for thought, and some good marketing ideas for authors. And here’s my take on why I give my books away: 1. Everyone believes their book is good, [...]
Bugs by Numbers in Greek
We’re proud to announce a foreign language edition of Bugs by Numbers, a book available from Free Kids Books by Danielle Bruckert. Bugs by Numbers has kindly been translated into Greek by Effie Kryiakidou. The download can be found here: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bugs-by-numbers—greek-edition/16303602