Book Dash gathers professional creatives – writers, illustrators, designers, editors – who volunteer to create high-quality children’s books that anyone can freely download, translate, print and distribute. Most of the work is done on a Book Dash day, when small teams work for over twelve straight hours, each producing a new book.
Why Book Dash?
Books purchased from publishers cost too much. In order to distribute more books for South African children, Book Dash participants work as publishers in a single day, having a book with no publishers mean the book will be a lot cheaper the only cost will be printing the books. With these, anyone can run sponsored prints and the finished books can be handed to children.
Every child should have a hundred books when they reach the age of five. that means handing down 600 million free books to South African children who probably could not afford to buy them, More children grow up not learning how to read and write well, and every day we lose more of these children. Let us not neglect these children and help them overcome poverty by first teaching them how to read and to enjoy the worlds that a book can open up.
Hippo Naughty Hippo-What is Hippo doing? And is she really naughty? Find out in this cute, beautifully illustrated text for young children. Repetition and simple language can also be useful for learn to read age. See also Elephant, Naughty Elephant in this series. Sample Text from Hippo, Naughty Hippo What is Hippo doing, can you guess? Hippo, ...
Unathi and the Dirty, Smelly Beast – fun early reader-Unathi and the Dirty, Smelly Beast – A mysterious dirty smelly beast is following Unathi home, or is it really a dirty smelly beast? Find out in this fun creative commons picture book from BookDash. This picture book is perfect for young children who want to start reading and understand common words with help. The ...
How to Be Happy – Be Nice Book 2 – Revised Edition-10 life lessons on how to be happy by 10 friendly animal characters, including sight words and activities, perfect for school use, in a pdf and editable children's book released under CC-BY-NC.
An Unexpected Adventure – Wordless Fun-In An Unexpected Adventure, a boy finds some exciting scenarios on a trip to the Library. In this book you can make your own words, teachers can use it as a word prompt for students, or it can be a fun exercise for parents and children to make their own words, it’s also very suitable ...
Under My Bed – Overcoming fears-Something lurks under my bed, is it a tiger? Or something else? Find out in this short endearing picture book. Text from Under My Bed I wake up at night feeling thirsty. I want to get some water. I start looking for my slippers under the bed. Oh my God! There is a tiger under ...
Teju’s Shadow – Dealing with fear-In Teju’s shadow, Teju’s Mama helps him get over his fear of the dark and fear of his shadow. A cute story for young children who are afraid. Illustrated by Ndumiso Nyoni, Written by Sope Martins Sample Text from Teju’s Shadow “What’s that?” Teju hides. “It won’t find me here!” He runs. “Why are you ...
Matchbox Dreams – Bedtime Stories-In Matchbox Dreams toys come to life and live in the land of children’s dreams as three siblings adventure with their friends the toy mice. Matchbox Dreams is specifically designed for parents to read to their children before bedtime or for older readers to read to themselves. Each night Harper, Remy and Millie come alive ...
Where Do My Thoughts Go? A bedtime story-Where Do My Thoughts Go is a fun imaginative book for kindergarten and early grades. A child imagines her thoughts as real and wonders where they go. The illustrations in the book and the fun sounds will make this an enjoyable short read for young children. This is a creative commons book (CC-BY-SA) brought to ...
My Dream in a Drawer – rhyming inspirational picture book-My Dream in a Drawer is a rhyming inspirational picture book which is certain to inspire children to foster a dream. A short book suitable for young children, kindergarten and early elementary. This is another awesome creative commons book from Bookdash. Illustrated by Megan Lötter Written by Fred Strydom Designed by Marteli Kleyn Edited by ...
The Bubble Mystery – bath time surprises-The Bubble Mystery explores Toot Toot the goat’s mystery adventure when she tries to find out where bubbles come from, can you guess? Young children will find the tale immensely amusing. This picture book was created by Room to Read, and this version is from Storyweaver. Download the epub version here, The Bubble Mystery epub. ...
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I like this book cause it teaches kids about adventures and bed time
My son liked the book for a number of reasons; here is his (seven years old) explanation:
1. Nandi had adventures, Imaginary adventures: he could tell that.
3. She could fly in one of her adventures.
The graphics were cool: very sharp colours, and Nandi was the cutest of all. Her dilemma portrayed how children elude sleep, hate to be in bed, fearing they’d miss out on the adventure that is life.
I like this book cause it teaches kids about adventures and bed time
Good bedtime story!
Nice simple and beautiful pictures
Read to toddlers in my class
Awesome, we love to hear our books are being used in classes! I hope they all were tired for their midday nap.
I love this book because it is just like me and that I said I don’t want to go to sleep that is why I love this book
My son liked the book for a number of reasons; here is his (seven years old) explanation:
1. Nandi had adventures, Imaginary adventures: he could tell that.
3. She could fly in one of her adventures.
The graphics were cool: very sharp colours, and Nandi was the cutest of all. Her dilemma portrayed how children elude sleep, hate to be in bed, fearing they’d miss out on the adventure that is life.
I like it because it is very funny
i love it
I like this book. its nice.
i love this book. My son loves to read this book every day.
Good
it was nice but think it is for toddlers, but it is still excellent!
Love it kept my son’s attention!
Love this book so much
Yes! My 4 yr. Old daughter and I REALLY enjoyed this story. I was especially pleased that the characters were brown! Thank u for this book!
My daughter loves it! This is awesome book to read. Your child will fall in love with this book.
Yeah, cause I don’t wanna go to sleep!
I love this story so much. It’s really full of imagination. I want to have the same adventure like Nandi.
yes i liked it
very nice story and illustrations. Very attractive for children.
very nice story and beautiful illustrations!
I want to read it to my 3rd Grade class.
I hope your class enjoys it, Danielle