Grab These Free Printable Books for Preschool and Kindergarten

Printable books can make such a difference in your preschool classroom. These free printable emergent readers are perfect for teaching young children early literacy skills.

collage of printable emergent readers with text that reads free printable books for preschool

Related: 50+ Free Preschool Printables

I love making books with kids, be they class books, emergent readers, or individual kid-directed books.

There is just SO MUCH learning that can take place during this process.

Plus, it’s just plain fun. For the kids. And me.

Because, let’s be honest, I have just as much fun making these books as the children do!

How to Use This Page

This page is home to all of my preschool printable book posts.

I put it together so that you wouldn’t have to go searching through my entire site to find the free books I’ve made over the years.

This means that you will click on individual links (they’ll be blue and underlined) that lead out to individual posts that explain how to use each of the individual printables. They’re also where you will be able to grab your own copies of the books.

Free Printable Books for Preschoolers

Below you’ll find all of my free printable books, all of which I’ve used with my preschool and kindergarten students.

Of course, I have even more to share with you. So I’ll be adding to this post as I write about more!

Please note that these are both printable emergent readers, printable class books, and printable words that you can combine with kids’ art to make books.

Simple Butterfly Life Cycle Book

This is a simple, repetitive butterfly life cycle printable book.

printable book about butterflies with text that reads Here is a chrysalis. Here is a butterfly.

It’s perfect for extending a preschool butterfly theme, or as an activity after the kids have observed the butterfly life cycle in real life.

Add some basic items as illustrations, then let the kids read and reread their books.

Colorful Dinosaur Emergent Reader

This dinosaur emergent reader pairs well with a preschool dinosaur theme.

pages from a printable dinosaur book with text that reads I see a yellow dinosaur. I see a green dinosaur.

Or maybe you just have a classroom of future paleontologists?!

Have the kids work on math and literacy concepts with this book about dinosaur colors.

Counting Flowers Easy Reader

I’m always amazed at how into books the kids get.

pages from a printable flower book with text that reads I see 5 blue flowers. I see 6 purple flowers.

Let me tell you, this printable book about counting flowers was a hit the instant I introduced it to the kids!

The children can count, identify numbers, and explore early reading skills all in one fun book.

Counting Apples Printable Book

Our free printable book about counting apples is great for a preschool apple theme or during a fruit and vegetable theme.

collage of pages from an apple counting book with text that reads I see 4 apples.

This children count and represent numbers 1 through 5 in this printable apple book.

“The Mitten” Emergent Reader

The Mitten printable book is a wonderful way to extend a Jan Brett author study.

pages from printable book retelling the mitten with text that reads The badger is in the mitten. The fox is in the mitten.

It helps the children explore the characters in a simple, repetitive way.

The children can retell the well-loved book by Jan Brett using this emergent reader.

Related: Early Literacy Activities

“Look at the Turkey” Homemade Book

Grab this Thanksgiving printable easy reader when you’re talking about turkeys or Thanksgiving.

pages from printable turkey book with text that reads Look at the red turkey. Look at the orange turkey.

The kids explore color words and early reading skills in one activity.

Bats Up in the Sky

This printable bat emergent reader is great for Halloween or a preschool bat theme.

The children can explore counting, one-to-one correspondence, and number identification as they work on early literacy skills.

Here’s a video peek at the book:

“On the Farm” Book-Making

This farm book-making printable combines kids’ art with text to make a book all about farm animals.

front cover of preschool book with text that reads on the farm

Make these printable books during your next farm theme, or as a way to follow up a trip to a real-life farm.

Halloween Emergent Reader

Our printable Halloween emergent reader touches on different Halloween costumes kids might wear trick-or-treating.

color and black and white printable Halloween books with text that reads I see Halloween costumes

Print out the color version to read with the children, or let them color/paint the black-and-white version themselves.

Spider Counting Book

The kids can explore Halloween math with a spider counting book.

page from a preschool spider homemade book with text that reads I see 2 spiders.

Perfect for kids who aren’t too found of spiders, too.

Use children’s fingerprints as part of the illustrations in this counting book.

Apple Emergent Reader

Extend a preschool apple theme with a printable apple emergent reader.

child coloring in an apple book with a green crayon

It’s a very basic book, but the kids always seem to enjoy making it with me!

Kids can learn color words, and other sight words, with this easy reader.

Halloween Bookmaking

For this Halloween bookmaking experience, the kids combine printable sentences with their own colorful artwork.

front cover of a preschool book called where do monsters live?

Great for a preschool Halloween theme, a monster theme, or just for fun!

“If I Were a Leprechaun” Book

Make a class book about where the kids would hide gold if they were leprechauns!

printable front book cover entitled if i were a leprechaun

You can find this printable with my other St. Patrick’s Day activities for preschoolers.

Turkey Tracks Class Book

Make some fun process art with “turkey tracks”.

Turkey tracks turkey art on free printable class book page

Then turn that art into a class book about where the turkeys are hiding out.

Read more, and grab the printable, in my turkey tracks turkey art post.

Here’s a look at the turkey tracks book:

Watermelon Counting Book

This watermelon printable book would be great during a summer camp, a watermelon theme, or a fruit theme.

placing black buttons on watermelon printable book

Lots of early literacy skills, along with counting and one-to-one correspondence practice.

Take a look at the watermelon counting book video:

How Do Printable Books Help Preschoolers?

I mentioned earlier that children can learn A LOT with printable emergent readers or homemade books. In case you were wondering, I wasn’t exaggerating that at all!

In addition to the skills covered in the early readers (like counting, colors, etc.), children also touch on quite a few early literacy concepts.

Here is a list of such concepts (and this list is by no means an exhaustive one):

Basic book knowledge (front and back of the book)
Directionality (we read left to right, top to bottom)
Concept of a word
Punctuation
Sight words
Letter-sound correspondence
Context cues

How to Fold Printable Books

I’m often asked how to fold many of the emergent readers I share.

Here’s a quick video that shows how to fold many of my free printable books:

Of course, if you’d rather just cut the pages in half and then staple them you can!

More Printable Literacy Resources

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Here are some literacy activities you might like:

Grab These Free Printable Books for Preschool and Kindergarten

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