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 …

What Money Can Buy – 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!       See more books like what money can buy below    

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 …

Freekidsbooks Ha’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 …

Our Book Formats – 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 …