Read Bloom Books
Children's Freedom - Voice & Choice
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:
Positive self concept
Develop value for culture and heritage
Supports intellectual development
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)
Everyone has a strong, unique voice.
Everyone is born with a creative genius.
Writing is an art form which belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or education level.
The teaching of craft can be done without damage to a writer’s original voice or artistic self-esteem.
A writer is someone who writes.
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:
PDF
Audio file - Maximum 5 minutes
Video
Recommended: PPT downloaded as a PDF (preferably Google Slides or Power point so we can convert it to Flip books)
Handwritten work will not be accepted
Who can write:
Any child from age 6 to 17 years old.
For Writers
Original Stories - YOUR STORIES created in your mind and stories about your life in villages, cities, towns, experiences of all kinds: happy, sad, adventurous, funny, silly and more
Any language with correct grammar and spelling
Less than 1500 words
May include pictures
Any subject
Any genre (realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, information, and others.)
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.
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