Two friends learn about repairing broken items, a shirt, an iron, a bicycle tyre. This story is about inspiring repair and not throwing away broken items to reduce our carbon footprint. Attribution Text: A Stitch in Time (English), written by Himadri Das, Veena Prasad, illustrated by Ankitha Kini, supported by CISCO, published by Pratham Books …

In Password Please we learn through this STEM book all about passwords, keys, and locks. Another great book from Pratham and their Storyweaver platform. Author: Vahishta Mistry, Illustrator: Radhika Tipnis       Text from Password Please Manju was fascinated by locks and keys. The soft metallic sound of a key turning in a lock …

Maths at the Mela, a maths storybook, involves a class trip to the local fair provides lots of opportunities for “skip-counting” and for practical problem solving for consolidating dividing skills in twos, threes, and fours. This book makes a fun maths lesson for early grades, and helps develop early skills of relating words in a …

Jeenu is spending the summer holidays with her grandparents, and she’s bored, Ajji suggests a game. Will it be a fun game? This geometry storybook with activities is a great way to combine reading and play. Jeenu and Ajji are drawing circles, triangles and squares. Then they turn them into all sorts of things. This …

Inhabitants of the sea is a marine life early non-fiction book, suitable for kindergarten and early grades. This short book describes popular sea creatures such as sea horses, octopus, clown fish, dolphins, manta ray, star fish, and sea turtles. This is another great creative commons book from the Pratham Storyweaver community     Sample text …

In Sailing Ships and Sinking Spoons – lessons in buoyancy, Tenzin and Tashi, two young Tibetan monks, and Genla, the beloved storyteller of the monastery, wonder why a small steel spoon sinks in water but a huge ship floats. Their science teacher Miss Sonam helps them experiment with an apple, a spoon and a tub-full …

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 …

Why Don’t Birds Comb Their Hair? Early nature projects about birds This is a cute book featuring a number of different bird types. This book can be a fun starting point for more research about birds. Author: Suchi Govindarajan, Illustrator: Anjora Noronha     Birds featured in this book: – Himalayan Monal – Eurasian Spoonbill …

How to Solve a Problem Like Himani, is a school journal from the Himalayas. Himani writes in her journal about life at school and at home in a village in the Northern Indian region of Uttarakhand, on the Southern slopes of the Himalaya range. The story takes you through her diary entries as she learns the …

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 …