A simple introduction to coding for early grades, what it is, what it does, and how to start. This short simple picture book is a nice way to introduce young children to what coding is. This book supports the Hour of Code www.hourofcode.com Author: Maggie Johnson Illustrator: Ma’ayan Rosenzweig   Sample Text and Images From …

In Let’s Go Seed Collecting – biology for early grades, a fictional tale about two children and their dog out collecting seeds, we learn lots of non-fiction facts about seeds and plant life. A great introduction to biology topics for early grades, the picture book also contains some facts at the end about different types …

Anna’s Extraordinary Experiments with Weather is a biography for children in elementary school. Anna Mani is a famous Indian meteorologist, who invented many meteorological measuring instruments. This book is brought to us by Pratham’s Storyeweaver licensed under creative commons. The book is rated English Level 3 suited for young children who can read on their …

In Perfect Balance is the story of Dipa Karmakar – Biography for children, the first female Indian Olympic gymnast. Karmakar is famous for being one of only five women in the world who have ever successfully landed the Produnova vault. The story is inspiring since Dipa had to overcome diversity, having flat feet, not suitable …

The Magic Mango – How exactly did people communicate before the internet, by phone of course, but what about before we had phones? The Magic Mango is a story about the first international communication channels – telegraph, including a little bit of culture involving the tale of the magic mango trick performed by Indian street …

The Cat in the Ghat provides a rhyming tale of an exciting adventure in the Western Ghats. The story is inspired by the real-life expeditions of National Geographic explorer, photographer and filmmaker Sandesh Kadur in search of the elusive Pogeyan in the Western Ghats. In the beautifully illustrated picture book, Uncle Sandy (Sandesh Kadur) searches for the mysterious cat, and …

A Whistling Good Idea – STEM Rube Goldberg machine – Nivi has to turn the cooker off for Ma. It’d be really simple to just turn it off right? But what about if she builds a cool machine to do it for her? This picture book for grades 2 to 5 is a fun read …

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 …

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 …

What will today bring is a picture book about a young child’s experience coping with disaster. This book is a great way for children to learn empathy for those facing civil disasters, to get inside the shoes of children displaced by natural disasters. This would be a very suitable story for classroom study when fundraising …