“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 …

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…)  

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 …

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 …

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 …

I found this amazingly great recipe for vegan cheese sauce that has me craving it,  the kids love it, it’s now my one recipe my daughter both asks for and eats (vegetables and all) and, it’s even simpler than making cheese sauce! It’s not literacy, although one could say there is literacy everywhere – since following …

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 …

Spelling and Literacy Workbooks – 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 …

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 …