Categories: Age 2-5 Years, All FKB Books, Children, Grade 1 to Grade 3, Humour, Intermediate English, Jo Kemp, Toddlers
Dorothy is a dancing doughnut, but she keeps hurting people when she dances. What should she do? This is the second free story in the episodes by popular author Jo Kemp. The book also has some fun activities at the end. To watch Dorothy The Dancing Doughnut and read along see the video link. …
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 …
Categories: Age 10-13 years, All FKB Books, Bullying, Fantasy, Friendship, Grade 4 to Grade 6
In Red Moon, White Moon, Connell Maxwell realized early on in life that school had a strict hierarchy: the bullies and the bullied. Unfortunately, he was doomed to be a member of the latter group. He always wondered if it was his friends who put him there, but, deep down he had another suspicion, his …
Hans Christian Andersen is a Danish writer best remembered as one of the greatest storytellers of children’s fairy tales. “The Brave Tin Soldier” was written between 1835 and 1872 and tells of the love and adventures of a one-legged tin soldier and a paper doll dancer he wants to make his wife. This version of …
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 …
Categories: Age 10-13 years, All FKB Books, Fantasy, Fluent English, Grade 4 to Grade 6, Monsters, Older Children
Yeti’s think people are imaginary, or is it people who think yeti’s are imaginary? Either way in this adventure that borders on science fiction we are taken on a roller coaster ride of what happens when a yeti rescues a little girl from a car crash where her parents are killed. The story is written …
Categories: Age 2-5 Years, All FKB Books, Children, Grade 1 to Grade 3, Imagination, Intermediate English, Jo Kemp, moral, Values
Bronia and the Bowls of Soup is a short tale of a young girl’s experience growing up in the ghettos and concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Bronia is a normal Jewish kid at Grade school in Poland, her family owns a small clothing shop and life is stable and happy. by Aaron Zerah As …
Categories: Age 6-9 years, All FKB Books, Children, Intermediate English, Science
Prism Palace is the story of a little girl who gets a prism for her birthday and learns alot about light and how it bends and forms a rainbow. Tess Renee gets more than she bargained for with her new birthday present, a light fairy, a rainbow elf, and a lot of knowledge about light wavelengths …
In No Ordinary Lizard, a middle-grade adventure, Ruth and her lizard Benson go on an incredible journey. If you had a secret pet who was smart enough to write you messages, how far would you go to protect him? This is the question 11-year-old Ruth Patterson faces every day. To keep her secret, Ruth must …
Categories: Age 2-5 Years, All FKB Books, Author, Beginner English, BookDash, Creative Commons, Early Reader, Grade K and Pre K, Toddlers
What’s in the Pot, makes a great an early reader with lots of repetition and simple language. Mama’s cooking dinner, but what is she making, can Sam guess? Another great free children’s story created by Bookdash. Illustrated by Hayley Alonzo, Written by Crystal Warren What’s in the Pot Sample Text: “What’s …
Categories: Age 2-5 Years, All FKB Books, Animals, Beginner English, Behaviour, BookDash, Creative Commons, Early Reader, Grade K and Pre K, Toddlers
Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Cory Doctorow, Fluent English, Grade 7+, science fiction, Young Adult
Homeland Cory Doctoroy YA novel about a hacktivist – In this, the sequel to Cory’s extremely popular Little Brother, the protagonist, a hacktivist, Marcus Yallow is again caught in a tricky situation. This time, he has information that will expose the corruption inside the government’s security contractors, but doing so can cost him his job. The …
Monkey Stuff is an adorable tale of a naughty cheeky little monkey, who keeps taking things that are not his. The rhyming story works through numbers one to ten, with endearing colourful illustration on each of the 24 pages. Suitable for pre-schoolers learning to count, and also for learning to read age children to read …