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Bulli and the Tiger

Author: Shalini Reys, Illustrator: Nankusia Shyam

Categories: Age 10-13 years , All FKB Books , Animals , Children , Creative Commons , Culture , Fable , Fluent English , Grade 4 to Grade 6 , Older Children , Storyweaver-Pratham

Bulli is a little girl growing up in a bamboo-weavers’ community. Bulli finds her father troubled and discovers the bamboo suppliers threatened to raise the rates and put their whole village in jeopardy. Bulli looks for other ways of finding bamboo, and ends up facing the legendary tiger! Will the villagers find another way? Shalini …

Jumping Mouse – A Native American folktale

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Categories: Age 6-9 years , All FKB Books , Animals , Children , Core Knowledge Foundation , Creative Commons , Fable , Grade 1 to Grade 3 , Intermediate English , mouse

Once there was a small mouse with a big dream. He wanted to go to the far-off land. Along the way, he meets some interesting characters, helps many in need, and completes a magical transformation. This story follows with vocabulary and questions including reading comprehension, think and share, and topic-based. Jumping Mouse is a Native …

The Memory Tree – Dealing with a Death in the Family

Illustrated by Agrippa Mncedisi Hlophe, Written by Savnola Goldridge

Categories: Age 2-5 Years , All FKB Books , BookDash , Children , Creative Commons , Family , Grade 1 to Grade 3 , Intermediate English , Toddlers

Thembi and Thulani’s Grandpa is very sick. They are sad. Then Mommy and Daddy tell them Grandpa won’t be coming home anymore. They miss Grandpa Nathi. Daddy and Mommy find a special way to remember Grandpa Nathi. Illustrated by Agrippa Mncedisi Hlophe Written by Savnola Goldridge Designed by Jason Gien Edited by Mariam Mahomed Brought …

Elephant, Naughty Elephant

Original Text Abhi Krish, Adaption Danielle Bruckert, Illustrations Warmly Designs

Categories: Age 2-5 Years , All FKB Books , Animals , Beginner English , Creative Commons , Elephants , Grade K and Pre K , Storyweaver-Pratham , Toddlers

What is Elephant doing? And is he really naughty? Find out in this cute, beautifully illustrated text for young children. Repetition and simple language can also be useful for learn to read age. Sample Text from Elephant, Naughty Elephant What is Elephant doing, can you guess? Elephant, naughty Elephant, what are you doing? Why, I’m …

Tractor Gets Help

Author: Mokgaetji Marutla, Illustrator: Ntibile Zonke o hweditše

Categories: Age 2-5 Years , All FKB Books , Beginner English , Creative Commons , Grade K and Pre K , Room to Read , Toddlers , Transport

A short book for young children about a tractor and his friends. Text From Tractor Gets Help This is Lorry. This is Scooter. Lorry and Scooter are friends. They are rushing to see their sick friend, Tractor. Scooter is going very fast. Oh no! Be careful! Hello friends. I am sick! Let’s get medicine. You …

Colours – With Bear

Author: Priyanka Illustrator: Ajanta Guhathakurta Translator: Alisha Berger

Categories: Age 2-5 Years , All FKB Books , Animals , Beginner English , Colours , Creative Commons , Early Reader , Editor's Picks , Grade K and Pre K , Room to Read , Toddlers

Bear likes colours – see all the pretty colours on his pure white fur… A beautiful text for emergent readers. Another great story from Room to Read, https://www.roomtoread.org/, brought to us by Storyweaver, https://storyweaver.org.in. Author: Priyanka, Illustrator: Ajanta Guhathakurta, Translator: Alisha Berger  

MORE Conversations Among Cats

Gabriel Rosenstock

Categories: Age 2-5 Years , Age 6-9 years , All FKB Books , Animals , Cats , Children , Creative Commons , Gabriel Rosenstock , Grade 1 to Grade 3 , Intermediate English

After an exceptionally positive reception to the book Conversations Among Cats, Gabriel Rosenstock has delved deeper into the world of cats with this expanded second edition – MORE Conversations Among Cats. The insights are playful and cat-like, and the conversations are longer and more intriguing than the first popular book. Enjoy this interlude into the …

Sami’s Beach Rescue – Help promote water safety!

Written by Ellie Jackson, Illustrated by Felipe Calv

Categories: Adventure , Age 2-5 Years , Age 6-9 years , All FKB Books , Books for a Cause , Children , Colouring , Creative Commons , Editor's Picks , FKB Make a Difference , Grade 1 to Grade 3 , Grade K and Pre K , Health , Intermediate English , Toddlers

Sami and his family take a trip to the sea, but when things take a turn for the worse, Sami’s quick thinking and recollection of his water safety training are put to the test. Will “Float to Live” save the day? This beautifully illustrated book combines adventure and suspense with essential water safety lessons for …

I Want to Be…

Lucia Shali-Paulus, Mitchell Gatsi, Rauha Shagandjua

Categories: Age 2-5 Years , All FKB Books , Beginner English , Behaviour , BookSprint , Careers , Creative Commons , Grade K and Pre K , Toddlers

A book for young children inspiring thoughts as to what they want to be when they grow up and encouraging a love of reading. Sample Text from I Want to Be… “Look,” Nali says. “There’s Mum.” “When I grow up, I want to be a police officer, too. Like Mum!” < End of Page 4> …

Save the Planet – Be Nice series book 4, revised edition

Danielle Bruckert and Zehnya Bruckert

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Save the Planet is a short simple book for young children, and beginner ESL readers, promoting values of conservation and ecologically-friendly behaviour. This book teaches children ten important lessons about conservation and actions that can help preserve and conserve our natural environment and the resources, for those of us, people and animals, who inhabit it. …

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• Title: Creative Commons: A User Guide
• Author(s) Simone Aliprandi
• Publisher: Ledizioni (May 31, 2011)); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): CC BY 4.0
• Paperback: 118 pages
• eBook: PDF (116 pages, 1.6 MB) and Mobi (Kindle, 136 pages, 1153 KB)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1446165574
• ISBN-13: 978-1446165577

A complete manual with a theoretical introduction and practical suggestions

Here is an operational manual which guides creators step by step in the world of Creative Commons (CC) licenses, the most famous and popular licenses for free distribution of intellectual products.

Without neglecting useful conceptual clarifications, the author goes into technical details of the tools offered by Creative Commons (CC), thus making them also understandable for total neophytes.

This is a fundamental book for all those who are interested in the opencontent and copyleft world. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

• Simone Aliprandi is an Italian lawyer and researcher who is constantly engaged in writing and consulting in the field of copyright and ICT law. He founded and still coordinates the Copyleft-Italia.it project and has published numerous books devoted to openculture and copyleft. He works also as a legal consultant for the Arraylaw.eu network. This is his first publication in English. More details about his activities are available at www.aliprandi.org.
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Provide interested individuals and organizations with practical guidelines for the use and application of open content licences, especially Creative Commons (CC) licenses: How do open content licenses work? How do I choose the most suitable licence? etc.

It helps you make sense of the different options available to you. This concise guide focuses on annotated licenses, offering an in-depth explanation of how they compare and interoperate, and how license choices affect project possibilities.

A Complete Guide to the Law of Open Source for Developers, Managers, and Lawyers. This book covers the legal implications of open source and free software licensing and the intellectual property laws that support open source licensing.

This book is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution.

The author is to argue that the very existence of patents are contrary to a free market, and adds in here copyrights and trademarks too. They all use the state to create artificial scarcities of non-scarce goods and employ coercion.

This book is Stallman's revision of the original biography. While preserving Williams's viewpoint, it includes factual corrections and extensive new commentary by Stallman, as well as new prefaces by both authors written for the occasion.

In this book the authors present lessons learned from their own experiences with open source, as well as those from other well-known projects such as Linux, Apache, and Mozilla.

This book describes an open machine learning architecture. Including key aspects that are involved for real business use. It focuses on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) machine learning software and open datasets.

In this book, the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program's major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development?

This is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software.

This book gets you started into the fascinating world of open source software development. Using the exercises and case studies provided, you will get good hands-on experience to contribute to and start open source projects.

This book is written by over a dozen developers who have grappled with slow code, memory leaks, or uncontrollable latency in open source software. It will help junior and senior developers alike understand performance of Open Source Applications.

This book will show you how to use free software tools in your company, charity, school or hospital, etc. Using Free Software alternatives to Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop can save you thousands of dollars.

This book is a practical, hands-on introduction to open source security tools. It reviewed the overwhelming assortment of these free and low-cost solutions to provide you with the "best of breed" for all major areas of information security.

This book is for Agile development teams and their Scrum Masters who want to explore and learn from the authors' "dogfooding" experiences and their continuous adaptation of software requirements management.

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We love books. We want to keep on publishing good books. Weird books. Interesting books. We are curious about the future. If everyone downloads books straight to the Kindlenub in their head, we might be in trouble. But if there are still people who like to read books on paper, maybe some of them will read some of these downloads and then decide they would like the actual books. Therefore we’re releasing some of our books

also releasing it as a free download in various completely open formats with no Digital Rights Management (DRM).

2. Creative What?

We’re interested in spreading the word about Creative Commons . Copyright is a good thing and artists deserve to be paid whatever society is willing to pay for their work. But, do artists need to retain the rights to their work for 70 years after their death? Uh, no.

3. Can’t I buy the book?

Yes, we certainly encourage readers to buy the book — we’re a tiny independent press. We receive no grants, we’re not a nonprofit: sales are good!

4. Will giving this book away kill sales?

We don’t think so.

60,000+ people have downloaded Kelly Link’s Stranger Things Happen since we made it available under Creative Commons. In the meantime the book has gone into its sixth printing, has been translated into more than half-a-dozen langauges, is being taught in many schools, and is still being passed hand to hand to new readers.

Our books are available in hundreds of libraries, on books.google.com and Amazon.com’s Search Inside program, in a few used bookshops, on BookCrossing , Scribd, Teleread, and, again, in hundreds of libraries .

In other words: as with any book, if you want to read it for free, you can. We’ve just made it easier for this book to reach the 6 billion readers out there!

4. Questions

Got a question? Email us and hopefully we’ll post an answer. We are a tiny press, though, so please don’t get jumpy if we don’t answer immediately. We’re busy working on our next books , freelancing, or performing quality control on chocolate .

More thanks:

• Much of the impetus, information and inspiration for using the Creative Commons license came from author, innovator, and groundbreaker Cory Doctorow. ( Thanks, Cory! )

A number of readers pointed us toward Jim Kelly’s great page of Free Audiobooks and suggested we add a donation button.

Please note: this is not something you have to do (especially if you own the book!). The electronic editions above are Free — and one of hopefully many Creative Commons-Licensed Free Downloads we’ll release (check for updates ).

You can buy the book at the following spots: Paypal | mail order | Our local bookshop | Powells | Direct: 800-729-6423. If you donate below, we’ll send you a thank you email but nothing else (well, unless you go wild!). We’re an indie press, hoping to survive, bent on publishing the best books we can find and in no way a 501(c)3 or whatever kind of non profit. We want to make a living publishing good books and pay authors and artists decent money along the way. We are ‘for profit’ even if that’s more of a conceptual aim than an actuality as yet.

So thanks for reading. It’s a noisy world and we appreciate the time you took getting here. Enjoy the book, spread it far and wide, come back sometime, and if you really want to, go ahead and donate:

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Books in the Public Domain

• Project Gutenberg Nearly 48,000 digitized books as of 2015. All in the public domain (in general, published before 1923). Available in epub, kindle, PDF or to be read online. Over 50 languages. Great source for classics and historical works.
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Open Textbook Collections

The Open Textbook movement focuses on the creation and use of books which are openly licensed -- in short, free and editable. These textbooks are also openly licensed with a Creative Commons meaning that dependent on the license, they may be legally displayed/uploaded/hosted, distributed, modified, etc. without fee, permission, or conducting a fair use analysis. (See Creative Commons for more information on the various CC open licenses.) 

Many of the collections will have links to the same books, but each collection has items unique to their collection.

Additional books that are not technically "open" are also listed. They may be "free online" but subject to copyright, or they may be low cost options.

• Seven Things You Should Know about Open Textbook Publishing Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or that have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution by others.

Open Lectures, Tutorials, and More

• Open Lectures, Tutorials, and Courseware from UMassAmherst Open UMass Amherst provides a platform for open courses, MOOCs, and community service programs.

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• BCcampus OpenEd Openly licensed textbooks created by BCCampus, a consortium of post-secondary educational institutions in British Columbia.
• Connexions Freely available, open-licensed educational materials in a wide variety of fields (electrical engineering, music, psychology etc.). Rice University.
• Digital Public Library of America Contains links to a wide range of multimedia objects form libraries, archives and museums around the United States. The copyright status of items vary because it is collected from many sources. However, many items are public domain or available for re-use, and there is information in a "rights" field for each item.
• Directory of Open Access Books Openly accessible (and many openly licensed) electronic books. Nearly 2,500 books as of January 2015. Includes search and browse finding features. Many times from international publishers and strong focus on humanities and social sciences.
• Find free online course materials related to a book (search by ISBN) Through California State University Affordable Learning Solutions
• The Global Text Project Publishes open content electronic textbooks that are freely available. They focus on content development and Web distribution, and work with relevant authorities to facilitate dissemination by other means when bandwidth is unavailable or inadequate. The goal is to make textbooks globally available to the many who cannot afford them.
• Live Lingua A collection of U.S. Government created public domain language eBooks and a/v resources for almost every language.
• MedEdPORTAL Free online peer-reviewed publication service for medical resources such as teaching materials, assessment tools and faculty development. Promotes educational collaboration through the open exchange of scholarly educational resources. Users can download and utilize any and all of the published resources for educational purposes without legal infringements.
• MERLOT MERLOT contains links to freely available online textbooks from a variety of sources. MERLOT II is a project of the California State University System. - Search instructions: (Filter "material type" by "open textbook").
• Milne Open Textbooks A growing collection of openly licensed textbooks in a wide variety of topics. more... less... formerly called OpenSUNY Textbooks
• NanoHUB Provides over 1600 open teaching and learning resources: online presentations; course material; learning modules; podcasts; simulation tools. Created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology.
• OER Commons OER Commons indexes a wide variety of openly licensed educational materials. Licenses vary by item. Search instructions: Under "Material Type" select "Textbook"
• Open Course Library Range of manterials including syllabi, course activities, and assessments created by faculty, instructional designers, librarians, other experts. Some of these materials are intended to be paired with textbooks. This is a smaller collection, but is sponsored by the Washington State Board of Education and therefore the materials have undergone testing for accessibility and assessed for quality. Unless otherwise noted, all materials are shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license.and are available for download and editing via Google Docs.
• Open Learning Initiative Free online courses and course materials offered by Carnegie Mellon University.
• OpenStax A collection of professional quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed, editable intro-level textbooks hosted by Rice University. All textbooks are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) and are freely available in PDF, HTML, ePub, and customizable via Connexions (cnx.org). iBook versions are $4.99. Hardcover print versions range from $30-50 depending on the size of the book.
• Open Textbook Library The Open Textbook Library is a collection of over 140 peer-reviewed and freely available electronic textbooks licensed under one of six Creative Commons licenses.
• Saylor Academy Bookshelf Each of the books in the Saylor Academy bookshelf is freely available for download, online reading, and sharing under one of various open licenses.
• Skills Commons A repository of OER supported by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program that lets you browse by material type, discipline, credential type and more.
• SkillsCommons A showcase of high-quality open educational resources from leading universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions and hosted by bepress, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more.
• UMass Amherst Libraries A listing of discipline specific and multi-subject open textbooks.

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