चिपको चिपको वृक्ष बचाओ is the hindi version of Chipko Takes Root – Saving trees of the Himalayas This story is about Dichi a brave girl who has been crippled by a flash flood due to deforestation, despite of her situation she took part on a movement to save the trees. In the 1970s there …

A Whistling Good Idea – STEM Rube Goldberg machine – Nivi has to turn the cooker off for Ma. It’d be really simple to just turn it off right? But what about if she builds a cool machine to do it for her? This picture book for grades 2 to 5 is a fun read …

I See Colours – A short book with the phrase I see…. and animals of different colors. A nice short book for very small children and early readers. By: Mustard Seed Books     I See Colours – These books for beginning readers support phonics-based classroom instruction by including a high concentration of phonetically regular words, …

Bee Not So Busy – isn’t like the other bees, she doesn’t like to be busy, but when she looks for a different way, she makes some interesting discoveries. This book is brought to you in Creative Commons by Gita Reddy. By: Gita V. Reddy     Text and Images from Bee Not So Busy All …

Children of the world united virtually for World Children’s Day and each submitted a quote, the best ones they made into a book…. note: this is a fictional book Enjoy some words of wisdom and think about how important positive values are.         Read along with the video of World Children’s Day …

Printable Alphabet – Back to Back Version – This is another version of the alphabet cards, nearly identical but you can print the cards back to back and laminate and cut them out. This means the second page is reversed in terms of normal reading, but the upper case letters on even pages match up …

A Book For Puchku – Puchku just loves books. She reads and reads all day long. Until one day she has read all the books, all that is except the ones on the very high shelf. How ever will she get to the books on the very high shelf? Read this beautifully illustrated picture book, A …

 After school all the children play together under the peepal tree, near Raju Uncle’s chai shop. Raju Uncle leaves a big pitcher of lime juice for them all to share. But how do they make sure there are 8 equal parts? When the lime juice is finished it’s time to make some more. How will …

Adil is always late to school. This makes his teachers very angry. But why is he always late? His friend Paro helps him work out where the extra minutes go. Does he need to wake up one hour earlier or maybe a little more? This book was brought to us by Pratham’s Storyweaver platform. See …

Angry Akku is a delightful children’s story all about handling anger. Akku is angry, she had a really bad day at school. Her father suggests she draw about what happened. At the end of the book there’s a list of ideas for handling anger. This book makes a great example for children about how to …