Sources and licenses
Original stories and illustrations
The current catalogue contains 171 books from Book Dash and 29 books sourced through Storybooks Canada from African Storybook. Copyright remains with the respective creators. Individual reading pages identify the author, illustrator, translator when applicable, source link and license.
Check the license of each book
The catalogue lists CC BY 3.0 or CC BY 4.0 for the story editions. These licenses allow sharing and adaptation, including commercial use, subject to attribution and the other license conditions. Cite the creators and source, link the applicable license and identify your changes. Do not imply endorsement. Consult the individual book and license for the exact conditions.
Our adaptations
Little Leaf provides web navigation, age and theme suggestions, discussion prompts, printable layouts and synthetic Voice 7 narration. Some spoken sound effects are normalized for narration where noted on the book page. The illustrated source editions retain embedded original text; spoken narration or translations may differ. A language selector does not translate text already embedded in an illustration.
Printing and further reuse
Keep the attribution and license information when downloading, printing or sharing. Source logos, trademarks and website code are not automatically covered by a book’s Creative Commons license. Other rights, including privacy and publicity rights, may still apply.
Corrections and rights questions
If a credit, license, translation or narration is incorrect, email [email protected] with the affected book and page URL. Little Leaf is independent of the source organizations and does not claim ownership of their stories or illustrations.