Browse through thousands of openly licensed stories for children in over 100 languages of the world. Had the pleasure of working on this beautiful story, razia learns to swim by divya panicker for pratham books storyweaver. Download, print, read 800 childrens stories for free. Chalklit provides tools, resources, and trainings to teachers to help them teach better in their classrooms. As authors and translators, working with the pratham books team has always been a crunchyasapakoda, delightfully fun, and khushi experience for us. Cognisant of these on ground realities, pratham books launched storyweaver a digital platform with openly licensed, multilingual storybooks for children. Were lucky to have associated with pratham books, in a small way, helping them with the design and frontend engineering work for storyweaver.
Jun 19, 2018 if youre a parent, teacher, or educator with a daily need for new, gorgeously illustrated kidlit stories, im here to introduce you to a lovely secret that pratham books, an indian notforprofit publisher, has been keeping from you. If youre a parent, teacher, or educator with a daily need for new, gorgeously illustrated kidlit stories, im here to introduce you to a lovely secret that pratham books, an indian notforprofit publisher, has been keeping from you. In conversation with the pratham books team story weaver. Three years ago, pratham books launched storyweaver a digital repository of openly licensed, multilingual books for children. Storyweaver pushes our idea of book in every childs hand. The platform can be accessed on desktops, laptops, and mobile. Sep 05, 2018 in conversation with the pratham books team story weaver a team that has been working very hard to achieve a very important mission. We create a wealth of stories in different languages and formats to captivate.
A butterfly smile pratham books storyweaver on behance. Feb 04, 2018 were lucky to have associated with pratham books, in a small way, helping them with the design and frontend engineering work for storyweaver. Storyweaver is an opensource digital platform that provides multilingual storybooks for children to learn and practice reading. Jan 06, 2016 indias pratham books storyweaver platform offers open source of childrens books and encourages users to translate, adapt and use the content for free. Explore the wonderful world of wildlife with pratham books phonestories specially designed to be enjoyed on mobile devices like your phone or tablet. Storyweaver to create hyperlocal libraries in regional languages. Chalklit is an app for teacher education and training.
The platform combines the power of technology, open licensing and collaboration to break down the barriers that limit access to knowledge. The platform combines the power of technology, open licensing and collaboration to break down the barriers that limit access to the most valuable thing we have to give to our children. Books available on free kids books which are originally published by. Pratham books storyweaver is an online platform that connects readers, authors, illustrators, and translators to create free stories for children around the world. Age 69 years, all fkb books, applied science, children, grade 1 to grade 3, grade 4 to grade 6, intermediate english, nonfiction, school projects, science, storyweaverpratham in why does a poori puff up we have a fascinating science and baking lesson combined, all in one wonderful book. About the project storyweaver is indias first open source, digital repository of multilingual childrens books from pratham books, a nonprofit childrens book publisher. It is a platform that hosts stories in languages from all across india and beyond. On storyweaver, all content is available under the ccby4. With the aim to enable self learning using digital means, pradigi content will be available through this android app, a webpage and a youtube channel. I had such a delightful time working with pratham books storyweaver on a butterfly smile, written by mathangi subramanian and illustrated by me. Other content, such as the pratham books blog is also cc bylicensed, in addition to some of its promotional content on flickr. By creating a collaborative framework where the creators and consumers of childrens content could interact with one another, storyweaver attempted to address the scarcity of books for children. Learning content for preschoolers, primary and upper primary school and vocational awareness is available in major indian languages including punjabi.
At the core is the ability to harness the explosion of digital data and computational power with advanced algorithms that extend the ability for machines to learn, reason, sense, and understandenabling collaborative and natural interactions. In flying high, a young boy dreams he is flying high. Storyweaver is an open source platform by pratham books for. Written by vidya tiware illustrated by rijuta ghate translated by rohini.
In conversation with the pratham books team story weaver a team that has been working very hard to achieve a very important mission. By creating a collaborative framework where the creators and consumers of childrens content could interact with one another, storyweaver attempted to address the. Download, print, read 800 childrens stories for free deccan herald. On storyweaver, all content is available under the creative commons license. Pratham books storyweaver creates hyperlocal libraries for. Pratham books created an alternate model to address these inequities to. Ai researchers are striving to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and enrich human experiences and capabilities. This story was recorded by mirch cares a radio mirchi initiative and this audio is licensed under ccbyncsa 4.
Browse storyweaver, where you can read, create, translate, or download an endless stream of free stories. All content on the platform is openly licensed under ccby4. Aside from print books, pratham books also supplies children with digital storybooks through its digital platform, storyweaver. As a mission focused, nonprofit childrens books publisher, we wanted to provide unfettered access to reading resources in mother tongue languages to all children. On world turtle day may 23, pratham books invites you to download our ever popular book turtle story and read about this endearing animal. Storyweaver, a magnificent, opensource platform and repository of diverse, multilingual stories for children. The repetitive simple text also makes this perfect as an early reader, for children learning to read. Suzanne singh, the chairperson of pratham books, shares her thoughts on the journey of pratham books and their ambition to promote reading among children. The pratham books champions model is a way for us to take stories to as many places as we can and introduce the joy of reading to several children. How this open source platform is weaving stories of.
On storyweaver, users can read, download, and print books for free, as well as translate and create new storybooks using the platforms simple tools. Goodnight tinku hindi by prathambooks free listening on. Launched on september 2015, on storyweaver users can read, create, translate, download and share stories for free. The key objective was to publish good quality, affordable story books in multiple indian languages to support reading acquisition among children. Storyweaver, an initiative of pratham books, a notforprofit publisher, announced the creation of hyperlocal libraries for children to promote and preserve. With over 15,000 stories in nearly 200 languages, storyweaver is not only a place where children can read and learn but also create, translate and download content for free. It publishes books across genres like fiction, science, history, maths and nature among others. Age 69 years, all fkb books, applied science, children, grade 1 to grade 3, grade 4 to grade 6, intermediate english, nonfiction, school projects, science, storyweaver pratham in why does a poori puff up we have a fascinating science and baking lesson combined, all in one wonderful book. Press release unescos year of indigenous languages sees. Story weaver is an open source platform of multilingual stories.
Storyweaver is an open source platform by pratham books for multilingual childrens stories. It claims to have published over 300 original titles in 18 languages, totalling up to 2,000 books across genres of fiction, nonfiction, and story books on science, history, mathematics and nature. Storyweaver is a whole new world of childrens stories. Nov 23, 2017 explore the wonderful world of wildlife with pratham books phonestories specially designed to be enjoyed on mobile devices like your phone or tablet that take you deep into the jungle and. She has been associated with pratham books since its inception in 2004. This childrens day, pratham books storyweaver casts a. Indias pratham books storyweaver platform offers open source of childrens books and encourages users to translate, adapt and use the content for free. It was created in order to provide children with access to low cost, high quality books, publish books in multiple indian languages, provide publishers with a platform to create affordable reading material for children, bring authors.
She talks about pratham books and their initiative, storyweaver, a platform that hosts stories in languages from all across india and beyond. Storyweaver, an initiative from pratham books, is an open source, digital repository of multilingual childrens stories. Story weaver is an initiative from pratham books where all stories are available under creative commons licenses making the stories free to be translated into new languages and new stories can be created, and artworks can be freely accessed, by. Stream tracks and playlists from prathambooks on your desktop or mobile device. Pratham books created its digital platform, storyweaver to provide open and free access to books so that children have enough books in their own languages to learn and practice reading. Pradigi is prathams digital initiative to strengthen, spread and sustain lifelong learning.
New books on the pratham books mobile app pratham books. Through storyweavers open source technology, openly licensed stories can be translated, remixed, or newly authored to expand the diversity of storybooks available to children. On storyweaver users can read, create, translate, download and share stories for free. Another great creative commons book fro pratham and story weaver. Chalklit is a free app used by thousands of teachers across india and the. Red raincoat spanish, translated by ximena delgado ximena delgado, 2015, based on original story the red raincoat english, written by kiran kasturia, illustrated by zainab tambawalla, published by pratham books pratham books, 2015 under a cc by 4.
Some of the initiatives from pratham books are listed below. Say hello to storyweaver, a gigantic kidlit opensource platform. Storyweaver is an open source, digital platform of multilingual childrens stories from pratham books. The pratham books champions program encourages a community of volunteers to conduct readingstorytelling sessions in their own citiestownsvillages. A sample of creative commons ccby childrens books from pratham books in india.
Storyweaver games is a collective of likeminded, quirky game designers who love weaving stories as much as you do. Our mission is to see a book in every childs hand and we have spread the joy of reading to millions of children in india. Pratham books storyweaver is a nonprofit trust that publishes high quality books for children at affordable prices and in multiple indian languages. How this open source platform is weaving stories of communities in. Pratham books is a nonprofit trust that publishes high quality books for children at affordable prices and in multiple indian languages. Suzanne singh is the chairperson of pratham books, a notforprofit childrens book publisher.
Pratham books storyweaver creates hyperlocal libraries for children in multilingual indian languages on international mother language day bangaloredelhigoa february 21, 2018. For world book day, we released our entire batch of new titles online for you to read and download for free. It addresses all the issues around the lack of content by using the open access framework and. Pratham books was set up as a notforprofit childrens book publisher in 2004 with the mission to see a book in every childs hand. Pratham books is a leading nonprofit bringing storybooks to children across india. Pratham books is our own little rabbithole of adventures filled with linguistically stimulating stories that we get to write and translate. It also offers a personalized peer to peer social micro learning network where teachers can learn from the best practises and experience of other teachers. Pratham books welcome to pratham books storyweaver. This is a hindi level 2 book from prathams storyweaver.
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