How About You is a fun rhyming picture book for young children. It has a total of 72 words, 10 double page spreads, including some wonderful sound effects! Perfect for reading with toddlers. Another great creative commons book brought to you by Bookdash. Illustrated by Renate van Rensburg Written by Margot Bertelsmann Designed by Ronèll …

This is a wordless book about a birthday party. Wordless stories are wonderful because they contain infinite possibilities. Here are a few ideas for engaging with children using visual stories: – Explore the story in a leisurely manner. Draw attention to the details – the expressions of the characters, setting, colours, etc. The idea is …

Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales – This collection of Hans Christian Andersen’s popular stories for children includes The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Snow Queen, and The Little Match Girl among many others. This work is in public domain, and as such can be used in any way by anyone, even to modify and create your …

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – In this Mark Twain classic, Tom and his friend Huck get up to all sorts of adventures. By: Mark Twain         Text from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer CHAPTER I “TOM!” No answer. “TOM!” No answer. “What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!” No …

Brothers Grim Classic Children’s Stories is a collection of famous classic children’s stories from European folk history. The collection includes favourites such as Rapunzel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Tom Thumb, Briar Rose, and many many more timeless classic children’s stories. Each of the classic stories is …

The Elephant Bird is a beautifully illustrated story of mistaken identity, illuminating people’s fear of the unknown, and how important it is to understand and respect others differences. Munia was different from the other children. She could not run. It was her differences that first made her notice the Elephant Bird – he was just like her, …

This is a collection of popular children stories and tale from Hans Christian Andersen’s Classic Fairy Tales. This is the read online text only version. Andersen’s Classic Fairy Tales CONTENTS THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES THE SWINEHERD THE REAL PRINCESS THE SHOES OF FORTUNE THE FIR TREE THE SNOW QUEEN THE LEAP-FROG THE ELDERBUSH THE BELL …

Huckleberry Finn, the Mark Twain classic, was written using a variety of period related southern dialects, which make it very colourful and an interesting piece of history but also very hard to read for younger readers or ESL students. This version has been edited to provide the story in a modern easier to read language. …

Das Beste Weihnachtsgechenk – Bubu the fox’s Christmas adventures translated into German. By: Ivan Parvov       Text and Images from Das Beste Weihnachtsgechenk   Der Winter kam und der Schnee bedeckte das Tal, von Bubu, dem kleinen Fuchs. Alle Tiere verstecketen sich in ihren Häusern. Bubu mochte den Winter nicht, aber auf einen …

The classic folk tale of the little red hen, retold by Florence White Williams. Excerpt from the Little Red Hen: Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms. She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they …