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Free Open Textbooks for University Courses – Young Adult Nonfiction
The Open Textbooks Library from Open Textbooks Network has an awesom collection of open textbooks for tertiary level. While aimed at tertiary education for university and college, this is also an amazing resource to use for extensions or elective subjects for students in upper high school or homeschool or for high school students preparing for …
“Y” – A single letter book from Bo books
In a follow up to the popular We Go To Bo by Larry Baum, Bo Books provides this single letter book, Y – did you even know it could exist? This can be great fun for children who know the alphabet and have learned the letter names, to differentiate between the names of the letters …
The Magic Letter – a STEM story book
In The Magic Letter, a mystery letter from a friend results in a problem-solving exercise and provides a fun science experiment. Find out how to write a secret message in this fun STEM story book. Author: Aaquib Jaleel, Illustrator: Shreya Sen Text from The Magic Letter Ijas lives in Haryana and …
Thinking Skills Comic from Siyavula
This comic, Thinking Skills, brought to us by Siyavula, teaches incredibly important rationalization and study skills important to any field, scientific and otherwise. The concepts are explained in a user-friendly comic style, including detailed graphical representation and simple explanations. The topics covered are as follows: Classifying things – page 1 Concept mapping – page 11 …
How to Solve a Problem Like Himani – School Journal from the Himalayas
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 …
Chess eBook – A guide to the game
This Chess ebook is a guide to the game in clear concise simple instructions. This guide is suitable for beginners with no knowledge to intermediate players who want some guidance on notation and tactics. What does Chess teach? Chess is an amazing game for children to learn and play (…offline!), it challenges skills of strategy, probability, …
Clarkness – 245 Open Dyslexic Learning to Read books
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 …
5 Fun Bedtime Stories – from a month of bedtime stories
5 Fun Bedtime Stories contains five amazing adventures. In each adventure, the centre of the story is the listener, and mysteriously for a host of reasons, the listener has forgotten, so the reader reminds them of everything that happened during the day. From aliens to submarines, underground adventures to pirates this book has it all. …
Sailing Ships and Sinking Spoons – STEM Lessons in buoyancy
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 …
Solar System Wikijunior textbooks
Solar system Wikijunior ebook is a text book on the solar system for upper elementary and middle school, this book has tons of facts on the solar system presented in an appealing way, easy for children to understand. The Solar System Wikijunior book is a creative commons book, so all text can be reused and …
Editors Picks for the Week – A selection of favourites
It’s sometimes hard to wade through the books, I wanted to use this blogspot to highlight a favourite in each reading category each week, to bring some of the older books to the front of the site again. Easy Reading – 5 minutes or less stories for very young children, early readers and beginner English …
Space Puzzles Book 1 – fun activities for kids from NASA
A space puzzles book for children interested in space. This activity book contains interesting facts about space flight along with activities to match. The book includes a maths puzzle, unscramble national parks, find words, match parts of the space station, and spot the difference. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, and the National …
Cats! An early reader about cats – for cat lovers
Cats! Provides an early reader about cats for cat lovers everywhere. See all the cats and follow their adventures in simple phrases and words for learning and progressive readers. Cat lovers will enjoy this beautifully photographed children’s picture book. Cats! is a Bookbot book, Bookbot is an app that helps children learn to read independently …
Chaos at Custard Castle – Dragons, and wizards, and things…
The team at Custard Castle are back with more fun-filled adventure in another four stories. Custard Castle has three hundred dusty rooms, and only seven people – not to mention a Thing that guards the treasure room… There was the King, the Queen, and Princess Fifi. There was Bella the maid, Jack the servant boy, …
Tania Gets Lost
This is book 32 of The Tania Series. Tania is growing up, and so is her thirst for adventure. After reading many books about kids solving mysteries and stumbling upon secret passages, Tania is craving an adventure of her own. Tania and her best friend Tanisha, are vacationing with their families in a small …
The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse – Beatrix Potter classic
In The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, Mrs Tittlemouse’s only wish is for her house to be clean and tidy, however, all her unexpected guests are not helping her at all. Mrs Tittlemouse battles against a stray beetle who leave’s footprints all over her clean floor, a lost mother ladybug, and a web stringing spider, an …
Physics – An introduction for early grades
Physics is a little book with lots of big facts about physics. This book covers the basic principles of physics and makes a nice introduction to physics for early grades in science disciplines, and a good lead into school projects by introducing some of the facts of physics. Sample Text from …
Emma’s Crazy Day – Further adventures in phonics
In Emma’s Crazy Day, Emma gets a new scooter for her birthday, this starts off a whole crazy adventure for Emma. This adventure is brought to us by Bookbot, an app that brings independent reading to children. Written by Bel Richardson, Illustrated by Mykyta Harets Sample Text from Emma’s Crazy …
Alfi Blows Bubbles – early grade picture book fiction
Alfi is having fun blowing bubbles, but the bees in the garden don’t think it’s so much fun. Once they see Alfi is in trouble and not trying to ruin their fun or steal their honey, they come to the rescue in this fun adventure early grade picture book. The medium length book is …
Race Driver Callum Makes A Car – Early Readers book
Race Driver Callum Makes a Car early reader tells us a story of a driver who makes his own car. Bookbot books are designed as early readers to strengthen reading practices. Bookbot is a reading app bot-buddy which means children can have their reading corrected independently, great for busy families and for growing in confidence. Written …
