Editors Picks for the Week – A selection of favourites – It’s sometimes hard to wade through the books, I wanted to use this blogspot to highlight a favourite in each reading category each week (or so…), to bring some of the older books to the front of the site again. Easy Reading – 5 …
It’s sometimes hard to wade through the books, I wanted to use this blogspot to highlight a favourite in each reading category each week, to bring some of the older books to the front of the site again. Easy Reading – 5 minutes or less stories for very young children, early readers and beginner English …
I’m writing this post to draw attention to our free editable files, which can be used as templates for children’s books, available here: https://freekidsbooks.org/subject/files/editable-files/ The files in our editable section can be used as templates to create your own books! The files are all available in creative commons release and can be modified in any way. …
A Journey to Reading – Dyslexic Resources – It’s now been a few years since I went through that critical learning to read stage with my eldest child. I remember how much I was looking forward to helping her navigate the journey to being a reader, and reusing all the material I had read to …
If you have an early reader, especially if they are a struggling reader, then there is help at hand, in the form of three letter stories! They are magic for struggling readers and can really turn around and improve a readers abilty in just a short time. If you feel you have plateaued with a …
Free Kids Books / Red Sky Ventures is looking for an administrative assistant. Your job will involve the administrative duties of helping us run this website (https://www.freekidsbooks.org), which includes some content creation, marketing, writing and graphics, possibly assisting with our creation of creative commons children’s books, work with NGOs, assisting with some basic accounting duties …
Over the years I’ve looked for critique resources, and never with much luck. The closest I came was an online site where I could post work, but it didn’t really work for me. Then a couple of weeks back, while searching for some author resources, I found Scribophile, https://www.scribophile.com. For any authors out there I …
An inspiring quote about trees, and we have three really inspiring books on the site about trees! The first two, children’s biographies, show how one person’s actions can go a long way. If we even complete the smallest task like planting a tree, but we do this over and over again, we can literally change …
Brave Knights, Bullies, and Emotional Intelligence – I found this quote on Bookbot, (To give credit where it’s deserved!) on an absolutely inspiring post they put up with quotes about dyslexia, for example, one says something like “I don’t suffer from Dyslexia, I suffer from ignorance from those who think it is a disability.” …
Great things happen when the stars align. I’m not sure that I believe that everything happens for a reason, although that thought can be comforting when bad things happen in your life. But I do believe that sometimes the stars align and something amazing happens. Let me explain by way of an example. I have …
