These printable books definitely belong in your collection of free preschool printables! They’re perfect for your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kids.
The various emergent readers shared below help kids learn and practice so many important early literacy skills. But literacy isn’t the only topic they cover! Math, fine motor, science, and social studies skills are found throughout the printable mini books.
In addition to all of that, most of the book printables are very low-prep. So you can have them printed and ready for the kids fast. And the printable readers can easily be differentiated to meet the individual needs of your students.

I LOVE making books with the kids, how about you? They’re ripe with learning opportunities, and the kids have a blast being authors and illustrators.
This page is home to ALL of my printable books. I put it together so that you can find the emergent readers you’re looking for all in one place. And I plan to keep adding more, so save this page.
Below you’ll see links out to all of my free printable easy readers. The links are blue with underlined text. Click on each individual link to read about each individual book. At the end of each individual post is where you’ll find access to the free printables.
Printable Books
To make things a little easier, I’ve broken the books down into seasonal categories for now. I might change things up in the future, but this works for the moment. So you’ll find a spot for each season, as well as a spot for non-seasonal books and such.
Please remember that you need to click on the individual links to get access to each of the free books. This page is just a spot to house all of the links so you don’t have to spend your time searching for all the books on your own.
Winter Printable Books for Kids
Let’s kick things off with winter emergent readers!

- This winter printable book touches on different wintertime activities kids enjoy.
- Children retell a favorite story with the gingerbread man printable book.
- Have the kids practice colors along with sight words with my Christmas lights printable book. Here’s a quick video that shows off the book:
- The Mitten printable book is a great way to extend a Jan Brett author study.
- Counting and one-to-one correspondence skills abound in the counting hearts printable book.
Spring Printable Emergent Readers
Next up, here are my spring-themed printable books for kids.

- Have the kids share what they’ve learned about butterflies with the butterfly life cycle printable book.
- Use the counting eggs printable book during your Easter activities or your next bird theme.
- Let the children explore numbers and colors with the counting flowers printable book. Here’s a short video showcasing the book:
- The spring printable book lets kids explore their favorite spring activities.
- The ladybug printable books definitely need to be included in your next ladybug unit.
Summer Printable Mini Books
Next up in our printable books are those emergent readers perfect for the summertime. Apparently, I haven’t shared all of my summer books yet as there are only two at the moment. Don’t worry, I’ll come back with more soon!

- Your students practice math and literacy with the watermelon printable book. Take a look at this video overview:
- The summer printable book lets kids discuss and explore their favorite activities during summer.
- The pirate printable book is great for a pirate summer camp or even Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Fall Printable Easy Readers
While my summer printable books seem to fall short, the same cannot be said of my fall printable emergent readers! There are over 10 available on Fun-A-Day now.

- Use the pumpkin seed counting book with crayons, pompoms, or even real pumpkin seeds.
- Lots of high frequency words and numbers in the bat emergent reader. See it in action here:
- The little red hen printable book lets the kids retell another favorite story in an age-appropriate way.
- Have your students work on their colors with the Thanksgiving emergent reader.
- The fall printable book isn’t up yet, but it talks about kids’ favorite fall activities.
- Talk with the children about what they observe in the fall with the I see fall printable book.
- Explore colors and high frequency words with your students as they make an I see a pumpkin printable book.
- Help the kids count backwards with the ten red apples printable book.
- Discuss apple colors with the I see apples printable book.
- The Halloween emergent reader touches on some of the costumes they see when trick-or-treating.
- Let your students discuss their favorite parts of the holiday with the I see Halloween emergent reader.
- The pumpkin life cycle printable book is great practice for your little pumpkin scientists.
- Work on math skills during your next apple theme with the apple counting book.
- The spider counting book is a not-so-scary addition to a unit on arachnids.
Here are a couple of collections for the fall, too:
Non-Seasonal Emergent Readers for Kids
Here are my printable books that don’t quite fit into a seasonal category. You can use them any time of the year or as part of some of your thematic units.

- The dinosaur emergent reader is a favorite with dino-loving kids!
- Use the all about me printable book at the beginning of the year, or as part of an all about me theme.
- The my 5 senses printable book is a great extension of your next five senses unit.
- Discuss important local careers with the community helpers printable book.
Printable Text for Homemade Books
In addition to all the simple printable books I’ve shared above, I also have printable text you can use to make more in-depth books with the kids. Some of these are class books, while others are readers kids make by combining printable text with their art.

- Make turkey tracks art with your students, and then turn that art into a fantastic class book about turkeys hiding.
- Encourage the kids to make some fun monster art with the colorful monsters book.
- Set up an apple tasting for the children. Then make a class book about everyone’s favorite apples.
- Kick off the holiday season with a Christmas 5 senses book that has the kids engage each of their senses along the way!
- Merge the kids’ farm animal art with printed words for the on the farm book.
- Create a book of world structures with these free printable block building cards.
- Use these printable nursery rhymes to make a simple nursery rhyme journal for your students.
- Make an “If I Were a Leprechaun” class book as part of your St. Patrick’s Day activities for preschoolers and kindergartners.
- Turn these preschool sign-in sheets into a class sign-in book.
Now, the big question is . . . which of these printable books are you going to use with your students first?
What Do Kids Learn with Printable Books?
I mentioned earlier that children can learn A LOT with printable emergent readers and homemade books. In case you were wondering, I wasn’t exaggerating that at all! Here is a list of some of the concepts kids practice with printable emergent readers:
- Basic book knowledge (front and back of the book)
- Directionality (we read left to right, top to bottom)
- Concept of word
- Punctuation
- High frequency words
- Letter-sound correspondence
- Context cues
- Colors
- Counting
- One-to-one correspondence
- Community
- Life cycles
And that list is by no means an exhaustive one. You can use homemade easy readers to teach an almost endless amount of early learning concepts. And the kids can use those same books to practice what they’re learning.
How to Prep the Printable Books
Start off by grabbing all of the materials you’ll need to prepare the emergent readers. Here’s what I usually use (I may get commissions for purchases made through links in this post):
And that’s about it! Of course, you might also want to grab other supplies in case you want to prep the books in a different way. Here are some ideas:
- Scissors (or paper cutter)
- Binder rings
- Laminator
- Hole punch
Once you have the supplies, it’s time to fold the emergent readers. Even though I try to include directions in all of the individual posts, I’ll touch on it here, too. I design most of my printable mini books to be printed, folded, and stapled. This way you don’t have to hunt down the scissors. But of course, if you’d rather just cut the pages in half and then staple them you can!
Here’s a short video that shows how to fold the little books:
And once you’ve got them printed, folded, and staples, you’re ready to go! Now decide which of the readers you and the kids are going to try next. Be sure to let me know what the children think about the mini books.
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Love all these books.
Glad to hear that, Janet! Thank you! 🙂
Thanks!!
Happy to help!
Thanks for sharing 😊
Happy to help!
Love these books
Happy to hear that, thank you!
I am trying to get the free printable emergent readers however it just keeps bouncing me around from webpage to webpage
Hey Kim! This page is a collection of the different posts I’ve written about free printable emergent readers. So you can go to the link of the book you want and grab that book there. They are all located here on Fun-A-Day. This way people can pick and choose the readers they’d like. Hope that helps!
Hello I would like the free printable books (Counting Apple. Colorful Dinosaurs, Look at the Turkey, Counting Flowers). However, every time I click the link it doesn’t bring to a printable copy of the books. Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi Linda! I explained how this page works near the top. Since it’s a collection of many of my printable books, each link takes you out to a post describing the individual books. So the links will lead you to the posts where you can grab the free books! 🙂
Thank you for sharing this. I have been looking for things to do and little readers for my special needs students. These are perfect for them. L
You are so welcome, Tammy! I hope your students find them fun and helpful. Thanks for your kind words. 🙂
I LOVE these mini booklets, but I am having trouble finding them to print. Can you help me print these for my little learners?
Hi Cindy, thank you so much for your kind words! This is a big list of the free printable books I have. So each link goes to a post that explains the individual book. That’s where you can grab them. Feel free to email me at mc@fun-a-day.com if you have any other questions. 🙂
This is great!
Thanks, Dina! I hope you and the kids like the books. 🙂
I am struggling to download the free printable books. I would love to have the turkey one…well all of them. But when I click on a link it just keeps redirecting me.
Hi, April! This post houses most of my free books. So you can click on each individual book link to go to the individual post about that book. You’ll find a large form at the bottom of the individual posts where you can enter your email and have the books sent to your inbox (since you’re a part of our email community). Once you enter your email, it will redirect to a page that says thank you. And then the email with the download will be sent to the email address you entered. This does need to be done for each individual book link. Eventually, I’ll put them all together in one big PDF but that is going to take a while and will end up being a paid product due to all the work involved. Going to each individual post takes longer but is free. I hope that helps!
I love all of you books. Thank you!
I’m so happy to hear that, Suzie! You’re very welcome! 🙂
I love your site! You always have such awesome activities~
Thank you so much, Tracy! Let me know what the kids think of them!
I would love to try all of these wonderful things
That’s great to hear, Veronica! Click through to the individual books you’d like to download and get your copies. 🙂
Love all these books! Thank you!
That’s wonderful to hear, Lilly! Let me know which one the kids like the best. 🙂
These books are SUPER CUTE!! I can’t wait to use them. Thank you so much! 🙂
I’m so happy to hear you like the printable books, Mariana!!
I couldn’t find the Free Life Cycle of a Pumpkin book.
Could you please send it to me?
Thanks
Ama
Hi Ana! You can find it here (and request the download link via the form at the very bottom of the post) — https://fun-a-day.com/pumpkin-life-cycle-printable-book/.
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Hi Dee! I hope your students really enjoy these printable books!
Would love to print some of your emergent readers but I can not figure out how to do that. THey look great!
Hey Sue! Thanks so much for the sweet words!!! 🙂 As I explained in this post, there are links to all of the printable books I have on Fun-A-Day on this page. To get to each of the individual books, click on the individual link to the book you’re interested in. At the bottom of the individual posts about each book, you’ll find a form to request the freebie. 🙂 Let me know if you have any follow-up questions and I can point you in the right direction. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing your terrific ideas!
You’re so welcome, Lisa! I hope you find the printable books and other ideas helpful! 🙂
Love these books for newcomers.
Thanks, Marta! I’m happy to hear the printable books are helpful!
Hello,
I am looking for the spider counting book resource on your website. Can you please help me?
Would you be able to email them to me please?
Thank you
Hi Sabina! You can locate the spider counting book here – https://fun-a-day.com/halloween-math-spider-counting-book/. At the bottom of that post is a form to request the download link be sent to your email. 🙂
I tried several times to download your “I see apples” printable book. However, although pictures were shown and the booklet was discussed, there was never a “click here to download”. It was very frustrating. I went around in circles. Can you assist on how one goes about downloading free printables without having to read through paragraphs without a link to download specific free printables? Thank you Annette
There is a large form near the bottom of the page where you can request the download. It’s referenced very directly within the post, there’s a table of contents that allows you to jump to that part, and it’s located under the heading “Grab Your Free Printable Apple Book.”