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A Beautiful Day is a picture book for young readers about a fun family day out. It’s a beautiful day for a picnic, and everyone wants to join in the fun. Nicholas, his Mom and Dad, his friend Jacob, little sister, and all the animals go on a day out to have a picnic by the …
Free Books for Kids Who Need Them – Please help share – We are embarking on our first of hopefully many print runs with BookDash. BookDash has an impressive model to get hardcopy books in children’s hands at incredibly affordable prices, and they have a wonderful range of early readers, perfect for promoting literacy in …
El Tigre – This is the Spanish version of Watch Out the Tiger is Here. A Tiger one of the biggest cat in the world, it needs to hunt often, but why is that everyone always knows he is here? Find out in Watch Out the Tiger is Here, a short beautifully illustrated picturebook for …
There Must Be a Rainbow is a story about being positive in the face of adversity. The whole village is ravaged by storms, and there is so much damage everyone is distraught, but one little girl sees things differently. Find out more – download or read online on the buttons below the post, or read …
In Tortoise Finds his Home, Tortoise enlists the help of his animal friends, snail, sparrow, ladybird, and mouse to help him find the missing house. Tortoise is looking for his home, he can’t find it anywhere, can you guess where it is? All the animals try to help him find it. When the storm blows …
Who is our Friend? Is a story about how the bird helps all the other animals out in nature. This is a nice early nature story for young children. The bird helps all the other animals out. The story shares how friends help each other, and how animals can work together in nature. This free …
What is it? Is a short and very sweet story of discovery. The animals discover a new creature, but it’s not like them, what can it be? Perfect for reading to very young children, and with simple words, recognition, and lots of repetition it also makes a perfect early reader. This is another amazing book …
In Animal Homes, we learn about where different animals live. This is a perfect early nature lesson for young children in early grades or kindergarten and can be combined with a nature walk to find different animal homes. This is a level 1 book from Pratham, recommended for beginner readers, or kindergarten children. Author: Ashwitha …
My Dream in a Drawer is a rhyming inspirational picture book which is certain to inspire children to foster a dream. A short book suitable for young children, kindergarten and early elementary. This is another awesome creative commons book from Bookdash. Illustrated by Megan Lötter Written by Fred Strydom Designed by Marteli Kleyn Edited by …
Woof-Woof is a delightful story of a young girl overcoming her fear of pets. The little girl is terrified of her family dog, and runs crying to her Daddy. Her Daddy shows her the woof-woof only wants to play. Slowly the little girl overcomes her fear and gains trust. This cute short picture book was …
The tiger is a big cat, and he needs to hunt often, but why does everyone know he is here? Find out in Watch Out the Tiger is Here, a short beautifully illustrated picturebook for young children about a tiger. This book is a creative commons book brought to us by Pratham and Storyweaver. The …
In The Kung-Fu Grasshoppers, the grasshopper’s children are taken prisoner by a hungry monster. Two strangers arrive in the grasshopper village, an old man and his granddaughter. Who are they, and can they help to save the grasshopper children from the evil monster who holds them prisoner in the nearby woods? This suspense-filled tale of …
Wiggle-Jiggle is a cute and cuddly caterpillar story with very cute rhythm, rhyme, and repetition. Young children will love this short, beautifully illustrated picturebook. Young children will love all the fun sound words along with the bright pictures, and the inevitable ending. Illustrated by: Megan Vermaak Written by: Mathapelo Mabaso Designed by: Chenél Ferreira Edited …
FKB Kids Jokes Book 2 is the second book from FKB featuring children’s jokes. Children’s joke books are fun for kids to just enjoy reading, and a short text suitable for all attention spans. A children’s jokes book is also a great way to get kids reading, and is especially suited for reluctant readers since …
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. …
The team at Custard Castle are back with more fun-filled adventure in another four stories. Custard Castle has three hundred dusty rooms, and only seven people – not to mention a Thing that guards the treasure room… There was the King, the Queen, and Princess Fifi. There was Bella the maid, Jack the servant boy, …
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 …
Lions are Always Brave is a cute animal story about a little lion, who is strong, fast, stretchy, and br…br….brave? Text from Lions are Always Brave Oh! Hello. I’m a lion. Do you know what that is? Should I tell you? Let me tell you. A lion is strong. Lions can run very fast. Lions …
