← Back to discover
Reading
Indigenous Storybooks
Indigenous Storybooks gathers illustrated stories, text and, where it exists, audio for children, families and educators.
Inspired by Little Cree Books, the project features short books about seasons, school, animals and everyday routines. Editions come in English, French and Indigenous languages, each with its own traditions rather than one interchangeable set. For adults, the site links to background resources tied to particular Nations and communities.
- Ages
- Shared early reading with cultural context
- Works on
- Web browser
- Topics
- Reading, Languages
- Languages
- Indigenous languages, English, French
- Listed
- 2026-10-11
What kids do
- Read a short illustrated story
- Listen to narration where offered
- Explore seasons and school themes
- Try another language edition
Who it suits
Framed for shared early reading with cultural context, which points to a child reading alongside a grown-up more than alone.
Notes for parents
The collection is still growing, so the number of titles and recordings differs from one language to the next.
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.