This story is testing a new feature on Storyweaver’s website, that is, they have an embed feature. This story is called Zara and the Butterfly, however while I was over there I saw a bunch of new stories, it was so distracting!!! I will be reading about the Jumbo soon, okay, forgive me, I like …

We are in search of a trusty deputy again. Alas my last few adverts were somewhat wrong, although the last was the most fruitful, this time I will list what you may not do…. Do NOT apply if you are a spammer, scammer, lazy, incompetent, or programmer without any interest in children’s books. DO apply …

Hi all FKB readers, this is just a quick apology from me, Danielle, the site editor. I am away in NZ briefly, with some family issues, and it is a very difficult time for us all. I am however, slowly getting my head above water, and hope to get some new books up this weekend. …

Over the years we have hosted a wonderful series of books by Kanika G, and Kanika’s writing has grown to be included as one of my favourite FKB authors. After reading close to 30 Tania books, I often find myself looking forward to finding out what Tania will be up to next! Tania Series Kanika …

I’ve discovered “Alphabet Baking!” – a really great way to teach letters to hungry toddlers! Let them cook and EAT the letters 🙂 Wouldn’t you so look forward to baking if your child gave you this? The first project we made was cookie letters. Not only was it great for letters, it also was great …

I’ve discovered a awesome learning activity which is great for kids and parents, and really easy to do: Photo Story Books – it’s a great way to learn and an awesome way to story valuable memories. A Photo Story Book to Remember Your Family Adventures! After arriving back from holiday, Opa, who joined us, sent …

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 …

Uncovering Earth’s Secrets and Where Wild Microbes Grow  written by Award-winning children’s author Kevin Kurtz (http://kevinkurtz.com) and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Alice Feagan (http://alicefeagan.com), provide a fun introduction to the world of marine research. Uncovering Earth’s Secrets explains all the fun activities which are carried out onboard the research vessel, the JOIDES Resolution, as it explores the seafloor to …

The great thing about public domain stories for children, asides from the fact that the stories are very popular, is that you can create your own versions of the stories free. Whether you change the words to your own, or just add a few illustrations, the work is free for you to modify as desired. …

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 …

Nick Creech, one of our popular writers for older children and young adults, has several longer length books on out 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 …

Many of our recent books have come from a site called StoryWeaver, here is a little bit of background about Storyweaver and their mission: ‘There’s no such thing as a child who doesn’t like to read. There are only children who haven’t found the right book’ goes the popular adage. StoryWeaver is a gateway to an endless stream of …

I’ve recently been uploading quite a few books from BookDash, a South African Non-Profit organisation that is as passionate about getting books to kids as we are. If you’ve wondered like me how they manage to create all the wonderful books, and make them fly free on the internet, as creative commons contributions, here below …

Teach your children the real value of money, and how sometimes the poorest of us can be very rich, while the richest very poor. Happiness and quality are of course independent of money always!  

This is just a reminder for all our authors and potential authors that Free Kids Books offers free editing services for all books submitted and accepted for publication on our website. We pride ourselves on providing books of a high quality, so in fact, the editing is not just provided, it’s mandatory! But why not have a …

We’ve reached just over 10,000 downloads! I wrote this post originally: “Published on: Dec 24, 2010 @ 09:50″ (You may be wondering why I was blogging on Christmas Eve at 10am, but, hey it was a quick post as I was really excited…)  

“The biggest threat to a writers livelihood is not piracy but obscurity!” This quote, attributed to Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media -an advocate of open source and free digital rights, has been echoed by a number of great authors, creators, and publishers, and summarises the main concept behind free, that is, it’s publicity you just …

The children’s books on Free Kids Books website are provided in pdf format since it’s the most transportable. However, I am slowly converting many books into ePub (great for word-wrap on chapter books) and mobi for kindle fans. Pdf books were originally designed for printing, however, they are also designed for transportability between computers, which is …

I get a fairly large number of emails from people asking if they can use the books on this site. I’d love to tell people they can use the books, especially for charities/non-profits, and wish I could, but unfortunately it’s not that simple.  

If you would like to submit a book for this site send us an email (danielle at redskyventures dot org) titled FREE KIDS BOOK SUBMISSION containing the following information: 1. The website address where you want people to buy the book 2. The book pdf (or a link to the download if it’s large) 3. A …