How to be Happy is a short simple book for young children and beginner ESL reader, promoting values of appreciation and giving, and can be used as an early reader. The book is perfect for building confidence in reading with only 25 words most of which are simple words. This book also teaches kids ten …

A smile is a thing you can give away and keep, it costs nothing, it makes everyone feel good, and it’s contagious. In Sizwe’s smile we find out more about how a big smile can go a long way to make everyone happy. This book was brought to us by BookDash, a literacy non-profit aimed …

Sam’s Christmas Present is a fun story about curiosity and patience over Christmas. Kids can’t wait for Christmas, and the curiosity can be too much, but it’s important to wait. This beautiful Christmas story was brought to us by Pratham and their Storyweaver platform. See more Christmas stories in our Christmas category. Author: Annie Besant …

Don’t be a Bully is a short simple book for young children, and beginner ESL readers, promoting values of anti-bullying and anti-discrimination. This book teaches children ten important life lessons about values and the importance of treating everyone equal, no matter what race, religion, gender, or abilities. There are exercises supporting the topics at the …

Save the Planet is a short simple book for young children, and beginner ESL readers, promoting values of conservation and ecologically-friendly behaviour. This book teaches children ten important lessons about conservation and actions that can help preserve and conserve our natural environment and the resources, for those of us, people and animals, who inhabit it. …

Inspirational Quotes for Kids is a collection of 22 inspiring and beautifully set quotes and stories from well known and less well known people. All the quotes included are designed to create positive thinking and foster attitudes of open minds and Each beautiful quote is set to an equally beautiful picture that depicts the essence …

Billy Helps Max – The fifth book in the Billy Growing Up Series, This chapter focuses on stealing or theft. Taking something from someone without permission is a very bad and undesirable thing to do. Have you lost something valuable or got something very important to you stolen. It hurts and sometimes it is very …

Albert the Albatross takes us on a poignant tour of all he has learned in life from friends to foes and how to ensure right from wrong. Albert visits many friends and tells us a story of what he has learned most importantly what makes people happy, mainly this is being and doing good, and …

A short tale of how a shy boy gains and have a friend. Mali doesn’t enjoy playing with the other children, he prefers playing by himself, but when Lesedi persists to ask him to play he gives in and finds it is fun, they become friends. A tale of overcoming shyness. This book is brought …

Human Values Foundation Stories on Values is an endearing and beautiful collection of short stories written by children, as selected entries from the Human Values Foundation’s annual Stories on Values competition. This edition is from 2017. The Human Values Foundation has kindly made these available to republish here so as to reach a wider audience …