Lefa wants to take a bath but someone keeps stealing the water. A cute wordless book fun for toddlers and kindergarteners, older children can also enjoy making up some words. Sample Page Illustrated by Ellen Heydenrych Written by Marion Drew Designed by Tyra Peter Edited by Kelly Norwood-Young With the help of the Book Dash …

A short humourous story for older children about buying a bicycle. Waiting in The Shovel and Custard for the next bus makes Joe think there must be a better way to spend our time. But if you ever thought buying a bicycle was a simple matter, you should have come with us. Download the full …

The classic tale of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, including comprehension questions. Sourced from Core Knowledge Foundation. Have fun with the repetitive phrases, such as huffing and puffing, and chinny, chin, chin. Sample Page from The Three Little Pigs Also available in an editable version for customisation: https://freekidsbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Three_Little_Pigs-Landscape-CKF-FKB.odt (created on OpenOffice …

The All About Me domain introduces pre-schoolers to the human body and senses. These activity pages support the development of gross motor movement and phonological awareness. This forms part of the Pre-Kindergarten syllabus of the Core Knowledge Foundation. See more at their website, here: https://www.coreknowledge.org/free-resource/ckla-domain-01-all-about-me/  Sample Page from All About Me Pre-K Activity Book  

The life of a doll from collecting the clay to being handed down as an heirloom with lots of fun repetition for young  children. Sample Page from The Doll that Bommakka Made Authors: Praba Ram, Sheela Preuitt Illustrator: Debasmita Dasgupta Read the full book by selecting one of the buttons below the post. Attribution Text: …

A short fun book which builds confidence for early readers and helps toddlers learn the responsibility to clean up after playing. Text from A Mess! Oh! A Mess. The bed is a mess. A big mess. Get rid of the mess. Pop it in the bin. Fit the tin in. Cat! Mat! Bog! The end! …

Barnaby Frog is afraid of water, will he get over his fear? Another great cutely illustrated children’s story by Tony J Moon. Sample Page from Barnaby Frog Learns to Swim See more from Tony J Moon on FKB  and see more at the  Tony J Moon Website  

Beware the nervous, watch out for the Splookies! These delightfully spooky creatures get up to mischief in this children’s story with lovely colourful images. Sample page from Splookies   Written by Gabriel Rosenstock, Illustrated by Rucha Dhayarkar Download or read online the full book by selecting one of the buttons below the post. Adapted from …

The tortoises want the wood apples but they don’t have hands to open them like the monkeys, will they find a solution? Find out in the cute, brightly illustrated story. Sample Page from The Clever Tortoise Download or read online the full book of The Clever Tortoise by selecting one of the buttons below the …

Ishan Khire is back with a wonderful treatise on life in middle school. In this book Ishan will have to face the biggest challenge of his life: middle school. Suddenly, from arts and crafts week and eating mac and cheese with juice boxes at lunch, he’s thrust into an environment with 6 foot giants they …

Khuzwayo is picked to be the village’s next Ingoma dancer, to celebrate the first crops of the year, but will he have the courage to dance?     \               Illustrated by Jess Jardim-Wedepohl Written by Fiske Serah Nyirongo Designed by Job Mubinya Another amazing story from www.bookdash.org, aiming …

Unni doesn’t understand why he can’t have cold lime juice, a fan to keep cool, or TV like his friend, then one day some men come to work in his village, what do you think will happen? A beautiful Creative Commons book from Pratham Books. Attribution: Unnit’s Wish (English), written by Meryl Garcia, illustrated by …

A young dragon dreams of going to dragon school but first he must find his lost bell. Another great decodable reader from BookBot. Sample Page from Dragon School Download or read online the full book but selecting one of the buttons below the post. Bookbot provide a wonderful selection of creative commons, leveled books, for …

A short children’s story about rain and water. Suitable for an early reader. Text from Rain I love water. I enjoy playing with water. It is raining. Rain gives us water. I enjoy playing outside. But it is raining. I enjoy playing out in the rain. My hair is wet from playing in the rain. …

A young boy tells all his animal friends “See you tomorrow,”, but will he see them all tomorrow? And if so when? A cute story with lots of repetition and imagery perfect for early readers. Sample Page from See You Tomorrow Read along with the video of See You Tomorrow, read by Kiwi Opa: Attribution: …