Read a free children's book online today and help provide books to children in Africa through the Tinga Tinga Tales Early Childhood Development Programme.

With your help, we've donated 40,000 Tinga Tinga books through two previous We Give Books campaigns.  Now we're aiming to donate another 20,000 books to even more teachers taking part in the Pearson/Tinga Tinga Tales Early Childhood Development Programme. If you're new to the Tinga Tinga Tales campaign on We Give Books, karibu! That means "welcome" in Swahili. You'll find more Swahili terms in the four new Tinga Tinga Tales books that you can read right here. Once you sign up for this ongoing campaign, you'll simply read a book to give a book - at no cost to you whatsoever. Please join the many other readers who made the first two campaign such a success.

In addition to supplying books, the Pearson/Tinga Tinga Tales Early Childhood Development Programme is hosting literacy training courses with an experienced educationalist, based on two Tinga Tinga Tales stories: Why Elephant Has a Trunk and Why Monkey Swings in Trees. During these sessions, teachers gain valuable insight into engaging young learners around literacy and cognitive skills. The hands-on training incorporates interactive reading, play, songs, dance, and shared reading activities.

Once a teacher has gone through the training, he or she will be given a classroom set of Tinga Tinga Tales books. These newly trained teachers will then go back to their own schools and train up to five other teachers, who will also receive classroom sets of books.

There are hundreds of teachers who are waiting to attend this program - a program that can greatly enhance their abilities to teach literacy to preschool students in poor neighborhoods. And there are no better stories to share with these teachers and their students than those that comprise the new Tinga Tinga Tales book series.

You can learn more about Tinga Tinga Tales at www.TingaTingaTales.com.