With the library closed, where do you go to get free children’s books? Here’s our round up the free book portals we’ve found online. If you know of anything we’ve missed, let us know.
We’ll add more resources as we find them.
Falkirk LIbraries free ebook and audiobook service
Our RB Digital offers quick access to books, audiobooks and magazines for adults and kids. Check out the titles by clicking the links below.
RB Digital is easily accessed in the app, available for Apple, Android and Kindle Fire. It keeps your ebooks, audiobooks and magazines in the one place.
How to register using the app:
⦁ Visit your app store and install RB Digital
⦁ When you open the app you’ll be given the choice to log in or register
⦁ Choose ‘Register now’
⦁ Pick your country and find ‘Falkirk Community Trust Ltd’ in the list
⦁ Enter your library card number and create an account as prompted on the screen
⦁ You’ll log in from now on with your username and password.
If you’re not already a member of Falkirk LIbraries, you can get a temporary online membership by filling in this web form.
Falkirk Learning Resource Service ebooks and eAudiobooks
If you go to school in the Falkirk area that means you’ll have a school Glow account. That means you can use the Schools’ Learning Resource Service Borrowbox app! They have ebooks and audiobooks.
More audiobooks and stories online
Amazon Audible have given free access to a range of kids audiobooks during lockdown.
Storyline Online has story videos for children from nursery, through primary age. Take a look at the age recommendations, keeping in mind they are in American grade school format. For primary age you’re looking at grades 1-6.
Oxford Owl have range of their reading tree and phonics books for various ages
Amazon Kindle offers a range of free downloads for children ebooks:
Booktrust has storybooks to read online for younger readers
Help for children with dyslexia
Barrington Stoke produce super-readable fiction designed to support young readers with dyslexia.
Their parents page has book samples and they’ve produced a special Homeschooling Guide for Lockdown.
Reading rewards with the Summer Reading Challenge
Head to the Summer Reading Challenge website to log the books you’ve been reading and collect digital badges, videos and games on the way. More details in our Summer Reading Challenge post.
