My Body is Mine is a short and powerful book for children to help them become aware of the nature of abuse and how important it is to speak to a parent or trusted adult. The book also provides some guidance pages for adults on how to identify signs and how to handle a child’s …

Three-P – an unsuspecting fairy penguin adventurer, musketeer, and hero. Three-P fights peer pressure and prejudice, but follows his heart and in doing so learns the value of friendship, and how to be a real hero. By: Nick Creech Sample Page from Three-P: The word flew around Mickleburrow like a school of pilchards exploding before a hungry …

Here’s another bumper edition of Aesop’s fables, this one includes 147 fables, beautifully illustrated by Milo Winter. The contents is hyperlinked, and the morals have been summarised at the beginning for easy reference. This edition, formatted by Free Kids Books, is also available in pdf, flipbook, and in an editable (odt) format. Aesop’s fables for …

There’s a germ in the bakery shop, and he’s not a good germ. He’s spreading his jealousy disease amongst all the ingredients. Olive oil is jealous of butter, salt of sugar, and sugar of salt, each thinks the other is stealing the limelight, and no one wants to share. How far will the jealousy germ …

Facts on coral reefs, presented in a medium length non-fiction book, with beautiful colour photographs. Another great Creative Commons book from open equal free, classified by OEF as Level 4. By: Megan Smith, Elissa Alvey, Dane Stogner     Text and Images from Coral Reefs Coral Reefs Level 4 A coral reef is a like an …

San’s quest, San, a rock painting, learns with the help of a friend to face his fears. San the bushman drawing lives all alone in his cave. He finds out that there are others like him in the Karoo, but he is too scared to leave his cave. When he has the courage to venture …

A Helping Hand – A series of letters tell a heartwarming and inspiring tale of friendship and dealing with disabilities. The writer is asked to show the new girl around. To begin with it’s awkward, and the other kids don’t understand, but differences are what make us stronger! This story is about a young girl …

The Snail Carpenter tells a tale of striving for a dream. With a big enough heart, and a strong will, even the smallest of snails can become a great carpenter. In this story, The Snail-Carpenter will teach you how you can succeed at everything you do. By: Ognjen Livada     Text and Images from The …

Sunflowers – A short non-fiction book about Sunflowers. Another great non-fiction Creative Commons book from Mustard Seed, approx. 150 words. This book will teach children facts about sunflowers, how it grow and how long it will grow. Children will be surprise to know that they can eat a part of this flower. By: Elizabeth Kim, MustardSeed …

In this, the first story in the Honeybear series, we meet Honeybear, an orphan bear living alone in the forest. She’s rather lonely and a bit timid, but delighted when she meets a mysterious stranger. He’s an escaped gorilla without a name, who she invites to stay for a while as winter approaches. She calls …