The Magic Mango – How exactly did people communicate before the internet, by phone of course, but what about before we had phones? The Magic Mango is a story about the first international communication channels – telegraph, including a little bit of culture involving the tale of the magic mango trick performed by Indian street …
Categories: Age 2-5 Years, All FKB Books, Beginner English, Creative Commons, Grade 1 to Grade 3, Imagination, Rhyming
Stick’s Masterpiece is a wonderful rhyming picture book, perfect for inspiring children that feel they “can’t do” something. Free at FKB. Cute, little Stick doesn’t know how to paint a masterpiece, but she can do small and simple things. The combination of all these small and simple things, composed over time, become her masterpiece. And …
In The Magic Powder, a delightful folktale from Myanmar with a very important lesson, a young man studying alchemy finds out how to turn earth into gold by following the advice of his wise father in law. Another great free story from Pratham and Storyweaver. Author: Greystroke Illustrator: P.G. Dinesh Text and Images …
In Just the Way I am, a story about being different, Matko the sheep is wider than all the others and she can’t fit through the gate. Yoga sheep suggests she tries yoga, jogging sheep suggests she jog, and many more sheep suggest helpful ways to change. Matko gets really fit, but she is still …
Categories: Age 2-5 Years, All FKB Books, Animals, Beginner English, birds, BookDash, Creative Commons, Fable, Grade K and Pre K, Toddlers
In Why Do Birds Sing At Dawn we find a fun folktale style story about birds singing at Dawn. Mama bird goes on a mission to save the forest and the babies are left alone, they miss her, learning to sing gives them hope she will return and she does. Illustrated by Emmanuel Grebo, Written …
Categories: Age 6-9 years, All FKB Books, Children, Giovani Valencia, Grade 1 to Grade 3, Intermediate English, Monsters
Categories: Children, Creative Commons, Foreign Language, Mustard Seed, Spanish, Spanish
Los Tigres – This is the Spanish language version of the popular Mustard Seed book Tigers. A non-fiction book all about tigers. Rated reading Level H, suited for children grades 1 to 2. The books has 245 words. This book is is a simple fact about tigers licensed under creative commons. See Tigers in English …
Categories: Age 6-9 years, All FKB Books, Children, Dogs, Grade 1 to Grade 3, Intermediate English, Monkey Pen
मोटा राजा दुबला कुत्ता, a Hindi Story – Tells the story of a fat king and his dog, The king run after his dog who was chasing a bird. What could be the outcome of this story? Will the King stay fat? This is a funny story perfect for young children. This is a Hindi …
This is a non-fiction book about big cats for upper elementary age children. The book makes a great research source for school projects about big cats or for a bedtime read for inspiring young zoologists (I just wish they had one on dolphins for my aspiring marine biologist to read or listen to at bedtime!). …