Screens and video games are replacing books and storytellers. That’s the result of the kids spending more and more time on screen and Internet too. It needs to make a habit of reading books to children. However, The children have some burden of school study and extracurricular activities. There is no need always to make a habit of reading books. To make it helpful to choose English Story Books for Kids, here is a list of 11 English Story Books for Kids which would be helpful to choose it.
All books are available in illustration and picture format too. This would be helpful for kids, that they can enjoy reading and boost their knowledge. So don’t take much more time, Let’s start…
1. The Happiest Tree: A Yoga Story.
“The Happiest Tree: A Yoga Story”, the story is surrounding a girl, named Meena. Meena is a cheerful girl and she wants to participate in her school play, but she does not get any good role in the play. Then her teacher encourages her and gives her a role to make a tree, but she is not happy to get it.
One day she goes into a grocery store and she gets that the children’s yoga class is running here. Her parents admitted to her that she would learn some skills and help her mind and body still keep quiet.
In this book Author “Uma Krishnaswami” writes about some benefits of yoga in our lives, especially for children.
2. Sita’s Ramayana (Samhita Arni)
We all know about the mythological book Ramayana and also know about the Rama and Sita. “Sita’s Ramayan” is a similar book to the Ramayana, the only difference in it that the story is presented from a woman’s angle. The author presented the perspective of Ayodhya’s queen that explores the idea of wrong vs right, compassion, loyalty, trust, honor, and dreadful price as the reason for war a woman.
3. Ganesha’s Sweet Tooth (Sanjay patel, Emily Haynes)
The author writes a fresh and funny picture book Ganesha’s Sweet Tooth that how Ganesha helps the wise poet Vyasa to write the epic poem of Hindu literature “The Mahabharata.” Ganesha is just like the other kids, excluding that he has the head of an elephant, and he rides the magical mouse. He loves to eat sweets, especially laddoo. But when Ganesha tries to eat a very big laddoo, one of the tusks is broken.
4. Tiger In My Soup (Kashmira Seth)
A boy insists to his sister to read his favorite story but she doesn’t give any heed. Then he imagines a tiger in his soup, and he gets afraid. There is some action between him and the tiger. His sister misses all the action. A few minutes later his sister returns to him and agrees to read the story.
5. Monsoon Afternoon (Kashmira Seth)
A young boy wants to go outside and enjoy the rainy season, but no one comes with him. Then he goes with his Dadaji and enjoys the Monsoon. They watch the peacocks dance in the rain and colorful birds, pluck the mangoes. Ultimately, they come back home where hot tea and a lovely family are waiting.
6. Monsoon (Uma Krishnaswami, Jamel Akib)
Uma Krishnaswami writes that a girl and her family are waiting for the monsoon. She also writes about the weather conditions before the rain and the girl’s perspective on the monsoon the hard summer season and the wind full of dust, sand, thunderstorms, and grainy, gritty dust. The girl expresses all the activity before the rain, which she is watching on her way.
7. Pattan’s Pumpkin: An Indian Flood Story (Chitra Soundar)
The story of a man Pattan, his wife, and his animals, who live on the bank of the river. Pattan makes the plant pumpkin and the pumpkin grows and grows until it looks like a mountain. Soon, Patten and his family make a bond with the pumpkin and the pumpkin saves their life.
8. 108 Panchatantra Stories
108 Panchatantra Stories is a beautiful collection of stories. These all are short but enough for kids to read. It helps to get moral education for kids. It is one of a good collection of English Story Books for Kids.
9. Grandma's Bag of Stories (Sudha Murty, Priya Kuriyan)
Before the Screens, we all used to listen to the story from our Grandparents. “Grandma’s Bag of Stories” recalls those days, when people lived together and listened to the stories. Grandma’s Bag has the story of the bear and gods, monkeys and mice, and a beautiful princess. Grandma is telling these stories to her seven lovely grandchildren. These stories make us entertain, educate, and provide some moral knowledge.
10. Grandparent’s Bag Stories (Sudha Murty)
After the best-selling Grandma’s Bag Stories, Sudha Murty brings the collection of the stories “Grandparent’s Bag Stories.” During the lockdown, most people have to migrate to their hometowns. In this book, the author mentions a family who comes back to their hometown, and the grandparents (Ajji and Ajja) welcome their grandchildren to their house in Shiggaon. They spent some quality time listening to stories about imaginary worlds, kings, princesses, thieves, and kingdoms.
11. The Illustrated Stories Of Akbar and Birbal
We all have been listening to the stories about Akbar and Birbal since childhood. Where Birbal always solves the puzzle with the help of his sharp mind and gives us a valuable message at the end of the story. These stories are full of moral education, social messages, and morality, which are very useful, English storybooks for Kids.
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