Free Kids Books / Red Sky Ventures is looking for an administrative assistant. Your job will involve the administrative duties of helping us run this website (https://www.freekidsbooks.org), which includes some content creation, marketing, writing and graphics, possibly assisting with our creation of creative commons children’s books, work with NGOs, assisting with some basic accounting duties …

Over the years I’ve looked for critique resources, and never with much luck. The closest I came was an online site where I could post work, but it didn’t really work for me. Then a couple of weeks back, while searching for some author resources, I found Scribophile, https://www.scribophile.com. For any authors out there I …

An inspiring quote about trees, and we have three really inspiring books on the site about trees! The first two, children’s biographies, show how one person’s actions can go a long way. If we even complete the smallest task like planting a tree, but we do this over and over again, we can literally change …

  I found this quote on Bookbot, (To give credit where it’s deserved!) on an absolutely inspiring post they put up with quotes about dyslexia, for example, one says something like  “I don’t suffer from Dyslexia, I suffer from ignorance from those who think it is a disability.” I really thought this one belonged with …

Great things happen when the stars align. I’m not sure that I believe that everything happens for a reason, although that thought can be comforting when bad things happen in your life. But I do believe that sometimes the stars align and something amazing happens. Let me explain by way of an example. I have …

This post is for children’s book authors out there who have a book they have shelved…Or those that want to give back…Or those that want to help their online reputation management (ORM). For anyone looking for free children’s book promotion giving away a shelved book, or creating a book to give away, is one of the greatest …

Learning to Read, Write and Spell Workbooks are essential for helping develop confident happy readers and writers. When going through the learning to read age with one of my children, who was a struggling reader, I developed a ton of materials to help her find easy ways to learn the sounds. Eventually, the school found …

I’ve always harboured the idea in the back of my mind that we might be able to give away hard copies at some point. We did, in fact, have a printing company which printed about 10,000 books once, and gave them to communities, and we also sponsored a book drive in the US, and we …

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 learning letters, it also was …

As parents we’re always looking for ways to entertain kids right? And an activity is engaging and educational, jackpot! I’ve recently discovered this awesome learning activity which is great for kids and parents, and really easy to do: Photo Storybooks. It’s a great way to learn, spend time together, and great way to store valuable …

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 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 …

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 children’s 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 …