Let's Read - Digital Library - Free storybooks & learning

Explore a delightful collection of vibrant storybooks for free with the Let’s Read app, perfect for sharing with the children in your life. Featuring thousands of titles from local authors and illustrators in various underrepresented languages as well as English, this app encourages a passion for reading and learning!

All books available on the Let’s Read app can be enjoyed without any cost or advertisements. You have the option to download and save your preferred titles, enabling you to read them anytime, whether online or offline.

For multilingual readers, the app allows for seamless language switching within the storybooks with just a simple tap, providing access to numerous languages, including English.

Our library of books on the Let’s Read platform is constantly expanding, thanks to our extensive network of local authors, illustrators, and translators who contribute new content regularly.

The Let’s Read initiative is part of The Asia Foundation's effort to nurture young readers throughout Asia, emphasizing support for underserved languages and creating original content through community workshops that yield culturally significant narratives.

About us

Children develop essential capabilities—including literacy, creativity, and critical thinking—when they're surrounded by engaging and fun reading opportunities from a young age.

The Asia Foundation's Let's Read program creates supportive reading environments where children can access free, relevant books and engaging learning opportunities. By collaborating with schools, families, communities, and storybook creators across Asia and the Pacific, we foster children's love of reading while developing early literacy skills and critical capabilities like curiosity, imagination, and empathy—all vital for navigating our rapidly transforming world and building thriving, knowledge-rich communities.

Let's Read Digital Library

The Let's Read digital library includes books from Let’s Read’s Storybook Studio, translations, and partnerships

Storybook Studio

Let's Read’s Storybook Studio brings together authors, illustrators, and editors to produce relatable, high-quality children's books in local languages.

Translation

Let's Read books are shared across the region through translation by local volunteers supported by local language experts.

Partnerships

Let's Read connects with community organizations, educators, publishers, and universities to source content and build a localized and sustainable solution to book scarcity.

The Let’s Read digital library provides free access to books anywhere, any time. Physical Let’s Read storybooks are also distributed through classroom and community-based activities.

Skill Building

Creating Relatable Content

Let's Read advances the professional skills and opportunities of new and experienced book creators so they can grow thriving book markets that support children, their families and their communities.

Creating Impactful Reading Opportunities

Let’s Read’s projects and partnerships provide children with fun, impactful reading opportunities and equip families and communities with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to help children become confident readers and critical thinkers.