In How to Catch the Wind – STEM fun we learn how the wind is used to make electricity.  A Simple book with an easy to understand explanation of wind power. Sample Text from How to Catch the Wind – STEM fun Air is always around us. Moving air is called wind. When wind blows, …

Many of our recent books have come from a site called StoryWeaver, here is a little bit of background about Storyweaver and their mission: ‘There’s no such thing as a child who doesn’t like to read. There are only children who haven’t found the right book’ goes the popular adage. StoryWeaver is a gateway to an endless stream of …

I’ve recently been uploading quite a few books from BookDash, a South African Non-Profit organisation that is as passionate about getting books to kids as we are. If you’ve wondered like me how they manage to create all the wonderful books, and make them fly free on the internet, as creative commons contributions, here below …

I can climb, or Ich kann klettern, is a German book for young children, a popular book provided in English on our homepage. Another great creative commons translation from the Pratham Storywever platform. Hier lernt ein kleiner Junge zu erklimmen. Aber kann er nach unten zu klettern? Dieses Buch ist eine der vier Bücher in …

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 …

This is a collection of three PDF maths textbooks for Literacy Foundations Math Level 6, approximately Grade 8, released under Creative Commons, CC-BY-NC. The textbooks provided here include Number Sense, Patterns and Relations, and Geometry. These textbooks are open eductions resources aimed to improve education and teaching standards. These school textbooks are from Open School BC, …

The following post links to some of the amazing “Flexbooks” and online resources from the CK-12 Foundation material. Each flexbook contains many different topics suitable for different syllabii. The link to CK-12 provides access to the master list of online resources in each subject. Flexbooks and downloads are available for customised resources extracted from these …

These NCERT English language textbooks are available free as read online textbooks and to as pdf download in creative commons for grades 1 to grade 12. While the copyright is a bit confusing on the NCERT site, the excerpt below explains better, the NROER initiative declared all the resources creative commons in 2013, and many …