Lefa wants to take a bath but someone keeps stealing the water. A cute wordless book fun for toddlers and kindergarteners, older children can also enjoy making up some words. Sample Page Illustrated by Ellen Heydenrych Written by Marion Drew Designed by Tyra Peter Edited by Kelly Norwood-Young With the help of the Book Dash …

In Who Stole Bhaiya’s Smile – Picturebook about depression, Bhaiya used to love playing with his little sister, but now he doesn’t anymore, mostly because he has a monster on his back, DukDuk. The monster sometimes makes him angry, other days it won’t let him get out of bed, it takes away his smile. Bhaiya …

Sexual identity and gender identity are topics that can involve intense confusion for teens and young adults. Discovering your sexual identity and/or gender identity is the first step that one must undertake and this book helps by first explaining how gender identity and sexual identity are not just black and white – or pink and …

Sindi and the Moon is a story about Sindi’s experiences preparing for and going to school for the first time. Sindi is getting ready for her first day of school, but she’s a little nervous. Will there be only reading and writing, or will they let her sing and dance too? Download the full picture …

Peepre wanders out onto a leaf in the bright sun, WHOOSH! He is blown into a post box, and there his adventure begins. A cute look at how a letter gets to its destination. This book was brought to us by Pratham Books and their Storyweaver platform. Read the full book by selecting one of …

Clark Ness has an amazingly large set of learning to read books available. His site includes literally thousands of easy readers, phonics based readers, sight word books, and much, much more. This set here is just a sample of some of his work using the open dyslexic font. The set in this post contains the …

In Steps of Wonder – maths story, Ms Mathis’ class is taught to always wonder when they are bored, never to just sit idle. This leads from waiting for a bus at a school trip to an exciting maths challenge using steps. The maths challenge is so exciting the whole class is absorbed in working …

Where am I? is a book which shows different animals camouflaged in their natural habitat, like a nature puzzle. Young children can have fun finding the animals on the page, if you make the images smaller initially and zoon in until the animal can be spotted it can be a fun game. Each animal has …

A heartfelt and inspiring journey of a young girl born with bilateral congenital cataracts. A poignant account, sharing snippets of the challenges Jillian and her family faced from multiple surgeries when she was just weeks old, to eyepatches, drops, and glasses, and the tremendous emotional rollercoaster for all involved. Sample Pages from Through My Eyes …

Ishan Khire is back with a wonderful treatise on life in middle school. In this book Ishan will have to face the biggest challenge of his life: middle school. Suddenly, from arts and crafts week and eating mac and cheese with juice boxes at lunch, he’s thrust into an environment with 6 foot giants they …

Continuing on the Tales from the Sanskrit, this is a lovely story about nature and nurture. The story explores how, when the cat is trapped in a snare and asks for help, the mouse helps her, the owl waits to catch the mouse, and the cat kills the lizard, ultimately demonstrating how self-interest and opportunism can determine the fate of others, and that nature is hard to overcome.

Ringo the Rhinocerous is shy, Rhino Charge is a story about overcoming shyness. In Rhino Charge, Ringo learns to overcome his shyness by practicing to gain confidence. An endearing story for young children in kindergarten or early grades, and an important lesson, that more practice helps build confidence, and gaining confidence helps overcome shyness. This …

The 911 Colouring and Activity Book is a really important book for children to learn about calling for help in an emergency and how the 911 system works. Use these exercises to teach your children or your students the important emergency response actions for various situations so they are prepared in case of an emergency. …

This early music book teaches you everything you need to know about rhythm and tone to play simple tunes and scales on the piano. There is a section on rhythm which includes beats, key signatures, and rests, and provides exercises to clap to. There is a second section on tone that introduces the 7 whole …

The woodcutter of Gura set out to chop wood one day. He climbed up a tree, perched himself on a branch and began cutting. The village priest who was passing by warned him that if he cut the very branch he was sitting on, he would surely fall down and die. Find out what the …