The Race is a short picture book, perfect for pre-schoolers and kindergarteners. The simple language and repetition makes it a nice book for beginner readers. The book is 5 pages and 55 words, less than a minute, or around 5 to 10 minutes for a beginner reader. Author: Kanchan Bannerjee, Illustrators: Kavya Singh, Natasha Mehra …

Dorothy is a dancing doughnut, but she keeps hurting people when she dances. What should she do? This is the second free story in the episodes by popular author Jo Kemp. The book also has some fun activities at the end.   To watch Dorothy The Dancing Doughnut and read along see the video link. …

The Best House Of All – A picture book for young architects – Does your little one love building forts, or drawing houses? Or perhaps you want to introduce them to what your job is, as an architect? This book is a perfect picture book for introducing young children to the concept of architecture and …

Who Is It is a cute beginner reader about animals. The book features. repetition and simple language, someone is making a funny sound, who is it? Author: Kanchan Bannerjee, Illustrator: Pratyush Gupta Who is Cute is made available in creative commons – CC-BY-SA by Pratham’s Storyweaver platform.     Text from Who Is It Priya …

What’s in the Pot, makes a great an early reader with lots of repetition and simple language. Mama’s cooking dinner, but what is she making, can Sam guess? Another great free children’s story created by Bookdash. Illustrated by Hayley Alonzo, Written by Crystal Warren         What’s in the Pot Sample Text: “What’s …

In the Lion Who Wouldn’t Try is a story about trying, we see a story of a lion who is too afraid of failure to attempt anything. All the other animals are having fun, while the lion is moping around. He is too afraid of losing that he never ends up having any fun. This …

Monkey Stuff is an adorable tale of a naughty cheeky little monkey, who keeps taking things that are not his. The rhyming story works through numbers one to ten, with endearing colourful illustration on each of the 24 pages. Suitable for pre-schoolers learning to count, and also for learning to read age children to read …

Supercow Volume 3 – Supercow returns in another exciting adventure. This time he helps a little girl with a big book who is very upset. This is a series I created around my little girl’s favourite toy, The Adventures of Supercow – which ended up rather popular, so I created a volume two, and now …

And Also! is a cute story about imagination in play and sibling friendship, and with lots of simple and repetitive language And Also! makes a great book for beginner readers. Thabo is playing a game of pretend. His sister Keitu wants to join in. To begin with Thabo thinks this is not great. But, wait… …

Circles, a beautiful picture book about death in nature, provides a helpful introduction to the topic of death for young children. This is an ideal children’s book about death, if you need to help a pre-schooler understand about the impending or recent passing of a loved one, a family friend, or  pet. In Circles, we see …