Read Bloom Books

Children's Freedom - Voice & Choice

Mini reading and writing workshops for students of all ages. Click here for more details.

Read Bloom Books takes pride to include stories made by children for children. 

This website is designed to empower children to share their stories of everyday life, their dreams, aspiration, ideas,  through  writing, illustrating  through words and pictures. We aspire to develop the craft of writing and reading strategies to become fluent communicators. And, supporting the CBSE's initiative of the young authors program 

Writing in the native language can boost:


Read Bloom Books Believe

Every person is a writer, and every writer deserves a safe environment in which to experiment, learn, and develop craft (Amherst philosophy)

Writers and Illustrators Privilege

Writers and illustrators publishing on this platform can revoke their CC 4.0 license should they get an opportunity to publish their work in another commercial trademark publication. 

We invite every child to create a picture book in any language they are comfortable with and share it for others to read.  Let your story meet these below listed Criteria.

Age Group:

Create stories for age groups:

0 - 3 years old

4 - 6 years old

7-12 years old

Teenagers

Format:

Who can write: 

Any child from age 6 to 17 years old.

For Writers

For Illustrators: 

Create a wordless book. Wordless books build imagination, curiosity and reflective thinking. Your wordless picture book must be a minimum of 6 images in high resolution JPEGs or PNGs.

You must have one or two adults proofread and revise so that it is error free before you submit it. Make sure when you use images, they are copyright free or used under fair use guidelines. Please remember to attribute/cite your images. You are welcome to draw your images.

We do not accept stories and images that are published on other digital platforms. 

Click here for more writing tips 

illustrated by

Kiara Rodrigues

Former Team Members:

2022 -2023 July: Gizelle Rodrigues, Mangala Ganesh, Anupam Sarkar & Darpana Baria 

2020 Nov - 2021 May: Akshay Wankhade, Anju Dutta, Ketki Bedekar, Ritu Singh, Rozmeen Saifee, Sunita Bakru and Vinita Kamat