Nick Creech, one of our popular writers for older children and young adults, has several longer length books on our site. His book A Way with Dragons (formerly Here Be Dragons) is in our top 10 list and has been for some time with over 500,000 downloads.  Here’s what Nick has to say about why …

Carmen Saptouw has several books for young and up to middle grade children on the FKB website, you can see her books here: https://freekidsbooks.org/author/carmen-saptouw/ Carmen tells us a little about why she writes: As a young child of only 8 years old, I was inspired to write  children’s stories. Following my childhood years, I got so involved …

Under the Sea, Learn Sight Words – Editable version – Under the Sea is a book designed to learn sight words, with around 25 common sight words and only 45 words in total, it’s a great book for young children learning to read. This file is for editing the book in open office format (file …

If you have an early reader, especially if they are a struggling reader, then there is help at hand, in the form of three letter stories! They are magic for struggling readers and can really turn around and improve a readers abilty in just a short time. If you feel you have plateaued with a …

Animal Homes Spanish Version – The mustard seed leveled grade 1 book Animal Homes – provided here in Spanish. The English version is available here: https://freekidsbooks.org/animal-homes-early-readers/ More books by Mustard Seed Books can be found on Free Kids Books here: https://freekidsbooks.org/author/mustard-seed/   More Books In Spanish Gecko On The Wall – Spanish Bilingual Children’s Story …

Piglet Gets a New Job Copyright 2015 Joe Corcoran Published by Joe Corcoran at Smashwords This edition published under permission by Free Kids Books https://www.freekidsbooks.org If you have downloaded this book from the authors website or approved links, and want to share with friends, please refer them to the original link to get their copy. …

Susha Golomb, author of Magic Sucks and Out of Place, with a third book on the way, has a secret wish to hide away, and just write! (I can sympathise, me too!) But so many of us out here, myself included, love to hear from the authors behind the great books on our site, so …

The classic folk tale of the little red hen, retold by Florence White Williams. Excerpt from the Little Red Hen: Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms. She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they …

Old Sultan – A shepherd had a faithful dog, called Sultan, who was grown very old, and had lost all his teeth. And one day when the shepherd and his wife were standing together before the house the shepherd said, ‘I will shoot old Sultan tomorrow morning, for he is of no use now.’ But his …

Briar Rose –  A king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where there were in those days fairies. Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to …