It all began with a shoe on the wall… Sahil, and Samira had been pranking each other for the last week, but when Samira saw her favourite shoe stuck to the wall in her room, she couldn’t believe it. This was too far! Find out, how she will get even with Sahil!    

Stories on Values is an endearing and beautiful collection of short stories written by children, as selected entries from the Human Values Foundation’s annual Stories on Values competition. This is the Stories on Values 2018 edition. The Human Values Foundation has kindly made these available to republish here so as to reach a wider audience …

Behind the Lie tells a tale of a family living with domestic violence, find out how they manage to work out a way to share their problem without making things worse. This book shares knowledge to support domestic violence victims with practical advice told in a very easy to understand way, and also helps all …

Dance of the Flamingos  – Living like lotus flowers on water, the sight of pink flamingos is one of the most beautiful sights of the natural world. Why are they pink? Do they put on make-up? Do they have even a single bone in their long neck? Here is a book of photographs that answers …

Daksha lives in a remote hamlet in the Himalayas. After losing her family to flashfloods, she grows up in the village community and gains knowledge of herbal medicine by helping the Vaidya. A chance encounter opens up a new life that includes schooling. But Daksha longs for her mountain home….This is an inspirational story set …

Ukuqonda Maths Textbooks Grade 4 to 6 – RSA Syllabus The Ukuqonda Foundation in co-operation with Sasol Inzalo Foundation and the Department of Basic Education South Africa brings us all these wonderful maths textbooks including maths textbooks grade 4 to 6 RSA in the creative commons for open education, CC-BY-NC. These textbooks are based on …

Billy and Ant Fall Out is the second book in the Billy Growing Up series, a series for elementary children which deal with important lessons in behaviour.  False pride makes a child feel so important that they would rather do something wrong than admit they have made a mistake. Could pride be playing a part in your …

The following is a collection of free school textbooks released in creative commons, CC-BY-NC, by Michigan Open Book Project, an initiative from the Michigan Department of Education. The textbooks have lots of interactive content including video links and exercises. See more open textbooks in our Free School Textbooks category     Books Available for Download …

Whoopee…Hyperloop! Future technology coming soon – Vishnu loves to see new places. But he hates long journeys. Why can’t we have a faster mass transport system, he wonders? So when he reads about the hyperloop, he is blown away… whoopee! What’s this futuristic mass transport system? Vishnu and his friends read all about it in …

Another beautiful volume of Haiku set to beautiful art from Gabriel Rosenstock. Very suitable for older children or school studies. Each poem in this thought provoking poetry anthology contains a stunning public domain artwork or image.  Gabriel Rosenstock See more from Gabriel Rosenstock on FKB   For more about Haiku, see here: https://vcbf.ca/event/about-haiku/. It is …