Is There Anyone Like Me? – A short story for young children about being unique. Another great Creative commons book from Bookdash. By: Fred Strydom, Jess Jardim-Wedepohl, Stephen Wallace     Text and Images from Is There Anyone Like Me? I wonder if there’s another me somewhere in the world. Who looks the same. And talks the …

Naughty or Not is a fun read for young children, and entertaining for toddlers. Are they being good today, or naughty? Learn interactively through interesting questions and answers. This is another great creative commons book from Pratham and Storyweaver. Pratham’s Recommended Age Group: 3-6 years   Naughty or Not by Madhav Chavan Illustrations: Rijuta Ghate …

5 Fun Bedtime Stories contains five amazing adventures. In each adventure, the centre of the story is the listener, and mysteriously for a host of reasons, the listener has forgotten, so the reader reminds them of everything that happened during the day. From aliens to submarines, underground adventures to pirates this book has it all. …

This wonderful guide on emotions for elementary age children can help children improve emotional intelligence as they connect with different emotions through worksheets, colouring, dialogue, and exercises. Eaach emotion is identified with a different member of the Mood Crew so children can identify better. Once children learn when they are feeling certain emotions they can …

My Friend Kimmi Could Really Spell Things – Kimmi really knew how to spell, but the school wouldn’t let her participate in the spelling bees. In fact they’d stopped having spelling bees all together. Find out why and more about Kimmi’s adventures with spelling in this wonderfully told book by Sturart Baum of StuartStories.com By: Stuart Baum   …

Supercow Volume 3 – Supercow returns in another exciting adventure. This time he helps a little girl with a big book who is very upset. This is a series I created around my little girl’s favourite toy, The Adventures of Supercow – which ended up rather popular, so I created a volume two, and now …

Vegepedia Colouring – A fun colouring and pattern book for older children, young adults, and yes I think this passes as an adult colouring book ;-), fascinating designs, all provided for free under Creative Commons open source terms. By: Nick Dolan     See more colouring below   [display-posts category=”colouring” include_excerpt=”true” image_size=”thumbnail” wrapper=”div” wrapper_class=”display-posts-listing grid” meta_key=”_thumbnail_id”] …

SpringLoaded What would happen if you invented a helicopter hat, or what about some spring loaded boots? This is a picture book WITHOUT WORDS, a great adventure in creativity for children to make up their own story to go with the images, and perfect for reluctant readers, illustrating that books are about telling a story, …

Story of Stories is a picture book about a writer bear following his dream to write. What would happen if you were a journalist but there was nothing to write about? Should you give up writing? Or should you find another way to follow your dream? Does it seem journalists have to write breaking stories …

Don’t be a Bully is a short simple book for young children, and beginner ESL readers, promoting values of anti-bullying and anti-discrimination. This book teaches children ten important life lessons about values and the importance of treating everyone equal, no matter what race, religion, gender, or abilities. There are exercises supporting the topics at the …

Manu and Maya want to make some bubbles, why buy a bubble kit when you can make your own, their Ma suggests. They make their own bubble kit and then get to wondering more, for example what if the bubble kit shapes were not round, would it produce square bubbles? What if they added some …

Sam Sam and  Marzipan  is a series of picture book stories, in which, a four year old boy and his cat go on wild imaginary adventures with their friends, Spoon, Dish and Tock. The first in the series, The Cubby House, is an adventure involving chocolate seas and vanilla ice bergs and lots of other …

In Thunderbolt Kids Science Comic Books Grade 6, we learn about the adventures of the Thunderbolt kids in a comic book style way. These books teach science and are perfect for struggling and reluctant readers since the texts are short and fun. This book is Grade 6, there are other books available for science grades …

I Want to be a Baker is about a young child wanting to become a baker, and through the trials of learning, experiencing the feelings of giving up. But persevering and receiving help he eventually achieves his goals. Sample Text from I Want to be a Baker I want to be a baker! Because I …

Megan is searching for her little sister’s missing cat. She is determined to find Frits. On the way she confronts a mysterious and scary rock creature and ends up in a strange new land. Find out what happens in this short entertaining fantasy story. Sample text from Megan and the Mystery of the Moving Rock …