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Off to See Spiders! – A fun biology picture book
In Off to See Spiders, we have a fun biology lesson about all the different types of spiders. Shama takes her two younger friends Kaveri and Shivi on a spider hunt. They find lots of different types of spiders, and Shama helps them learn about all the different names. The book combines some fun rhythm and …
The Race – Fun for Preschoolers and Beginner Readers
The Race is a short picture book, perfect for pre-schoolers and kindergarteners. The simple language and repetition makes it a nice book for beginner readers. The book is 5 pages and 55 words, less than a minute, or around 5 to 10 minutes for a beginner reader. Author: Kanchan Bannerjee, Illustrators: Kavya Singh, Natasha Mehra …
The Best House Of All – A picture book for young architects
The Best House Of All – A picture book for young architects – Does your little one love building forts, or drawing houses? Or perhaps you want to introduce them to what your job is, as an architect? This book is a perfect picture book for introducing young children to the concept of architecture and …
Who is it? – Cute beginner reader
Who Is It is a cute beginner reader about animals. The book features. repetition and simple language, someone is making a funny sound, who is it? Author: Kanchan Bannerjee, Illustrator: Pratyush Gupta Who is Cute is made available in creative commons – CC-BY-SA by Pratham’s Storyweaver platform. Text from Who Is It Priya …
A Whistling Good Idea – STEM Rube Goldberg machine
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 …
Cat in the Ghat! – Adventure in the Western Ghats
The Cat in the Ghat provides a rhyming tale of an exciting adventure in the Western Ghats. The story is inspired by the real-life expeditions of National Geographic explorer, photographer and filmmaker Sandesh Kadur in search of the elusive Pogeyan in the Western Ghats. In the beautifully illustrated picture book, Uncle Sandy (Sandesh Kadur) searches for the mysterious cat, and …
Ranger Forester- nature theme early reader
In Ranger Forester, a nature theme early reader from bookbot, we learn about a park ranger who protects the animals and natural environment. Ranger Forester works out in the wild. It is his job to look after the animals and plants. Uh oh…Ranger Forester finds something that doesn’t belong in the forest. What is it, and …
Big Cats – a wiki non-fiction book for upper elementary
This is a non-fiction book about big cats for upper elementary age children. The book makes a great research source for school projects about big cats or for a bedtime read for inspiring young zoologists (I just wish they had one on dolphins for my aspiring marine biologist to read or listen to at bedtime!). …
The Fish and Chip Shop – Early Reader
The Fish and Chip Shop is an early reader picture book which describes a trip to get fish and chips for lunch. It’s lunch time, and this little boy wants to try the fish and chip shop. What do you need to do when you order food? What will he choose for lunch? Come and …
Spelling and Literacy Workbooks
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 …
Wild Cat! Wild Cat! – Non Fiction for the Very Young
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 …
The Magic Mango – A story with a history lesson
The Magic Mango – How exactly did people communicate before the internet, by phone of course, but what about before we had phones? The Magic Mango is a story about the first international communication channels – telegraph, including a little bit of culture involving the tale of the magic mango trick performed by Indian street …
Dipa Karmakar – In Perfect Balance, Biography for children
In Perfect Balance is the story of Dipa Karmakar – Biography for children, the first female Indian Olympic gymnast. Karmakar is famous for being one of only five women in the world who have ever successfully landed the Produnova vault. The story is inspiring since Dipa had to overcome diversity, having flat feet, not suitable …
Anna’s Extraordinary Experiments with Weather – Biography for children, Anna Mani
Anna’s Extraordinary Experiments with Weather is a biography for children in elementary school. Anna Mani is a famous Indian meteorologist, who invented many meteorological measuring instruments. This book is brought to us by Pratham’s Storyeweaver licensed under creative commons. The book is rated English Level 3 suited for young children who can read on their …
Let’s Go Seed Collecting – biology for early grades
In Let’s Go Seed Collecting – biology for early grades, a fictional tale about two children and their dog out collecting seeds, we learn lots of non-fiction facts about seeds and plant life. A great introduction to biology topics for early grades, the picture book also contains some facts at the end about different types …
Coding is Everywhere – about coding for early grades
A simple introduction to coding for early grades, what it is, what it does, and how to start. This short simple picture book is a nice way to introduce young children to what coding is. This book supports the Hour of Code www.hourofcode.com Author: Maggie Johnson Illustrator: Ma’ayan Rosenzweig Sample Text and Images From …
Let’s Make Some Lime Juice! – a STEM storybook
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 …
Bathtime for Chunnu and Munnu – bedtime fun for early readers
At bathtime for Chunnu and Munnu there is tons of fun, splashing, scrubbing, followed by dinner and bedtime. Bathtime for Chunnu and Munnu is a fun story perfect for bedtime or anytime, teaching toddlers about routines. The simple language and repitition also makes it great for learning to read age children to read to younger …
The Magic Block – STEM for early readers
The Magic Block – What magical quantities does this “magic block” have? It seems to stick to some types of things and not others? Why or how can this be? In this STEM book for early readers we find out about a magic magnetic block, with an explanation at the end on properties of magnets. …
A Book For Puchku – A Story About the Love of Reading
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 …
