Tania’s Monsoon Adventure – Tania and her friends are on the way back from a school trip. It is pouring cats and dogs and the roads have started flooding. As the school bus crawls through a water logged street, the engine sputters and chokes and comes to a grinding halt. The kids are stranded. What …

My Body is Mine is a short and powerful book for children to help them become aware of the nature of abuse and how important it is to speak to a parent or trusted adult. The book also provides some guidance pages for adults on how to identify signs and how to handle a child’s …

My Red Ball tells a fun short children’s story about a red ball. Repetition and use of sight words make this book perfect for an early reader. Another great free children’s book from African Storybook. Authors: Khothatso Ranoosi, Marion Drew, Illustrator: Marion Drew Text and Images from My Red Ball – Early Reader   Ball. My ball. …

The Day It Rained Fish – Imagine if it started raining, but not water, fish! Would it be a good thing or a bad thing? Find out in this short illustrated creative commons book from Storyweaver. This is a Level 2 free book created in Pratham’s 6 frame challenge, that is the story has only …

Three-P – an unsuspecting fairy penguin adventurer, musketeer, and hero. Three-P fights peer pressure and prejudice, but follows his heart and in doing so learns the value of friendship, and how to be a real hero. By: Nick Creech Sample Page from Three-P: The word flew around Mickleburrow like a school of pilchards exploding before a hungry …

This very cute non-fiction book for young children is all about wild cats, from common big cats to more diverse, it also makes a great learning to read age book which can spark some research ideas for homeschool or general interest study. Wild Cat! Wild Cat! Is a creative commons book from Storyweaver, rated as level …

A bird is trying to build her nest for the winter, but every time she finishes she is disturbed. Until one day she finds a very inventive solution to her problem. Sample Text from A Special Nest – Inventive solution to a problem Winter is approaching. A bird decides to build a nest. She gathers …

In this, the first story in the Honeybear series, we meet Honeybear, an orphan bear living alone in the forest. She’s rather lonely and a bit timid, but delighted when she meets a mysterious stranger. He’s an escaped gorilla without a name, who she invites to stay for a while as winter approaches. She calls …

The All About Me domain introduces pre-schoolers to the human body and senses. These activity pages support the development of gross motor movement and phonological awareness. This forms part of the Pre-Kindergarten syllabus of the Core Knowledge Foundation. See more at their website, here: https://www.coreknowledge.org/free-resource/ckla-domain-01-all-about-me/  Sample Page from All About Me Pre-K Activity Book  

This is not a handbook – it’s a hand book! A book about hands, perhaps it’s a handbook about hands? A fun and colourful rhyming book all about hands, great fun and nice bright illustrations. Perfect length for early readers. By: David Whitney     Sample Text and Images from The Hand Book: Just so everyone …