← Back to discover
Reading
Book Dash
Illustrated books to read online or download, with many South African settings and languages.
Book Dash’s library filters by theme, such as family, emotions, nature and adventure, as well as by language and wordless books. The wordless titles let a child tell the story aloud in any language, which leaves room for readers at different levels. Some books come in several language editions, so the same pictures can be revisited with different words.
- Ages
- Young children and shared picture-book reading
- Works on
- Web browser
- Topics
- Reading, Languages
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Multilingual, Wordless
- Listed
- 2026-10-11
What kids do
- Read an illustrated book
- Tell a wordless story aloud
- Browse by South African language
- Pick a family or nature theme
Who it suits
Meant for young children sharing picture books with a grown-up.
Notes for parents
Some titles also have audio or signed versions. The site gives attribution guidance for anyone printing or adapting a book.
In these guides
- Children’s books in your family’s language: online libraries from isiZulu to ASL: Online libraries of children’s picture books in Hindi, Kiswahili, isiZulu, French, Indigenous languages, American Sign Language and many more.
More Reading
- Epic – Kids' Books & Reading: A digital library where children browse stories and nonfiction, listen to Read-To-Me books and audiobooks, and look up words with an audio dictionary.
- Reading.com: A parent and child go through scripted phonics lessons together, followed by decodable stories and practice games.
- Reading Eggs: Pre-reading, first reading, systematic phonics and later comprehension are split into separate programs aimed at different ages.
- Teach Your Monster to Read: Children design a monster and take it through games that match letters to sounds, blend words and read sentences.
- Hooked on Phonics Learning: Guided reading activities come with an ebook library meant to go alongside the lessons.
- Teach Monster: Reading for Fun: Recipes, signs and instructions are the reading material in a village adventure where helping characters earns books for a monster’s shelf.
- Vooks: Animated storybooks with narration, where each word is highlighted as it is read aloud.
- Endless Reader: Animated words are built letter by letter, dropped into short sentence puzzles and then acted out in a little scene.