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Storybooks Canada

Storybooks Canada is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. Part of the Global Storybooks project, it makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available with text and audio in English, French, and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages of Canada. Share and enjoy!

A boy sitting on a chair reading a book.

I like to read!
Level 1
A lion roaring at animals next to the water.

Counting animals
Level 1
Two girls playing.

Feelings
Level 1
A man fire breathing, holding two sticks lit with fire.

Fire
Level 1
A crocodile in water.

The hungry crocodile
Level 1
A cow, a horse, a pig, a goat and a chicken.

Look at the animals
Level 1
A girl wearing school clothes.

School clothes
Level 1
Five people with different hairstyles.

Hair
Level 1
A boy playing ball with a dog.

Two
Level 1
A woman walking along a beach holding an ice cream.

Weather book
Level 1
A boy running after a tyre.

Lazy little brother
Level 1
A girl peeling potatoes.

Cooking
Level 1
A boy with a backpack on.

What are you doing?
Level 1
A cat hiding amongst flowers.

Where is my cat?
Level 1
A boy kicking a football.

My body
Level 1
A rabbit jumping by the riverside.

Why hippos have no hair
Level 2
A wax bird flying in the sunshine.

Children of wax
Level 2
A woman sitting against a tree and a boy petting a cow.

Tingi and the cows
Level 2
A man walking with a tray of bananas on his head.

Tom the banana seller
Level 2
A crowd of people standing together smiling.

Decision
Level 2
A girl and two boys looking at a basket of fruit.

Punishment
Level 2
A girl next to an orange tree.

Khalai talks to plants
Level 2
A girl talking with a soccer coach.

Andiswa Soccer Star
Level 2
A very tall man holding a hoe too small for him.

A very tall man
Level 2
A girl opening a wooden window.

Zama is great!
Level 2
A man driving a taxi, and a goat, dog and cow sitting in the back.

Goat, Dog, and Cow
Level 2
A woman with a donkey tied to her back.

Donkey Child
Level 3
A spider standing in front of a clay pot.

Anansi and Wisdom
Level 3
A girl and a woman in a field and a zebra and a giraffe nearby.

A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai
Level 3
An eagle standing on a rock looking down at a hen.

Hen and Eagle
Level 3
A boy standing next to a bus.

The day I left home for the city
Level 3
A chicken and a millipede walking along a road.

Chicken and Millipede
Level 3
A silhouette of three girls carrying wood on their heads at sunset.

Nozibele and the three hairs
Level 3
A boy singing in front of a woman.

Sakima’s song
Level 3
A bride surrounded by wedding guests cheering.

What Vusi’s sister said
Level 4
A bird sitting on a rock next to some honeycomb.

The Honeyguide’s revenge
Level 4
A woman standing in her garden smiling, next to some banana leaves and a basket.

Grandma’s bananas
Level 4
A woman sitting between a boy and a girl each holding luggage.

Holidays with grandmother
Level 4
A girl sitting in a tree singing.

Simbegwire
Level 5
A boy daydreaming about being a pilot.

Magozwe
Level 5