Home is a poignant look at life for a little girl that ends up as a refugee. The little girl lives in a village with her family but one day armed men are on their way inbound and her and her mother are separated from her family and follow a river of people to a …

Corona Virus Guidebook for Children Another book about the Corona Virus, this time a comprehensive guidebook to healthy practices for children, including trace the words exercises. This book is brought to us by KEEP – The Kids’ Educational Engagement Project, a Liberian initiative to promote reading. With the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic raging across …

When a friend visits Neelu she has some amazing stories to tell about animal rescues and animal prosthetics. The book explains how 3D printing helps in the animal prosthetics industry including some real examples at the end. Author: Riddhi Dastidar, Illustrator: Anupam Arunachalam Sample Text from Neelu and the Phenomenal Printer Miru Mashi is visiting …

In What Are These For? young children can be entertained by the simple rhyme. Several things fall down from the shelf and the children ask what are these, Ma answers, what each utensil does. Perfect for new readers with the simple text and a word list at the end. Author: Bhavini, Illustrator: Chaaya Prabhat   …

Stick’s Masterpiece is perfect for inspiring children that feel they “can’t do” something. Cute Little Stick learns that while she may not know how to paint a masterpiece, she can do small and simple things. These small and simple things, composed over a lifetime, are what become her masterpiece. The result is more beautiful than …

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 …

The Peacock Who Wished to Fly – The Peacocks Tale and how the peacock got it’s feathers. Tausi the Peacock live in peace with other birds, admiring how other birds can fly far and wanted to fly far also. But he cannot even fly far in order to collect food and the other birds mock …

Chaku’s Cyle – Chaku saw Lilas tricycle and he liked it a lot. He decided to make one and need his uncles help for tools in building a tricycle on his own. Chaku was very resourceful although he manage to make a very nice looking tricycle it was not sturdy enough to ride. Lila saw …

In Too Big! Too Small! Shanu finds she is too big or too small for so many things, then her family shows her what she is big enough and small enough to do. A growing-up story that tells about big and small in a friendly repetitive way, suitable for young children and early readers. Author: …

Houses – This book is about the different types and shapes of houses. This book is from the African Storybook Initiative, suited for children who are starting out to learn how to read. The book uses simple words with illustrations. Children will find it easy to learn and use the words. Written by Zanele Buthelezi, …

A Butterfly Smile – A Colourful Butterfly Biology Picturebook for young zoologist. This story is about the life cycle of butterflies. starting butterflies laying their eggs turning into cocoons and emerging into colourful butterflies. Author: Mathangi Subramanian Illustrator: Lavanya Naidu Follow along the story where Kavya a shy girl who just moved to Bengaluru to …

In Sticky Brains, Aria is having a tough week. All she remembers is the bad stuff that happens. Then she discovers something amazing: her brain gets good at what it practices (yours does too). She learns to make good thoughts stick too, just by paying attention in a new way. Join Aria in exploring how …

The Sea is a story about a girl and her family who go to the beach to escape the heat. She soon realizes how much fun it is playing with waves. This book has a lot of repetitive words with illustrations perfect for young children learning to read to learn new words. This book is …

Philautus the tree frog known to his friends as Thavalai was born on the Big tree in the middle of a shola forest, a dark, deep and wet forest, dripping with dew, dank with mildew. His family had lived on a big tree for as long as anyone could remember and did not come down. …

When Brave Rima gets lost at the fair she doesn’t panic, she looks for Uncle everywhere until finally, she finds another little boy lost and then she knows what to do. Author: Rakibul Islam, Illustrator: Shamim Ahmed       Sample Text from Brave Rima – Lost at the Fair Rima went to the fair …