PagineStories that feel like home. Free Nigerian stories for children — original early readers set in Nigerian homes, markets and schools, West African folk tales, books in Hausa and more, plus printable proverbs, songs, a Primary 1–3 phonics pack and a termly reading log. Written in British English, as taught in Nigerian schools.
Written by us for the youngest readers: short, rhyming and warm. Read online or print.
Count the akara and puff-puff at Mama Nkechi’s stall!
Read the story →🇳🇬A busy, colourful trip to the market.
Read the story →🇳🇬Getting ready for the first day of term.
Read the story →🇳🇬New clothes, the Durbar and sharing at Sallah.
Read the story →🇳🇬Travelling home to Grandma for Christmas.
Read the story →🇳🇬Tortoise tales under the full moon.
Read the story →Playground songs & action rhymes.
Print →💬Wise sayings with simple meanings.
Print →🏺Tortoise tales & moonlight stories.
Print →✍️20 composition & story prompts.
Print →✅A by-class reading challenge.
Print →Free to read together in the library.
Beloved stories, free to read in Pagine.
Children read more when they recognise their own lives in books. This collection brings Nigerian markets, schools, festivals and moonlight stories onto the page, written in the British English used in Nigerian classrooms. Start with our Pagine Originals, explore West African folk tales, and read in Hausa and other home languages.
For school: find books matched to your class on the Nigerian reading levels pages (Nursery, Primary 1–6, JSS and SSS), print the Primary 1–3 phonics & sight-words pack, and track reading with the termly reading log.
Celebrations: Independence Day (1 October) · Children’s Day (27 May) · Democracy Day (12 June) · Sallah (Eid) · Christmas.
Home languages: Hausa · Yorùbá · Igbo · Nigerian Pidgin.
Yes — our Nigeria-set early readers, folk tales and printables are free with a Pagine account, along with thousands of picture books and classics.
Start with our originals Ten Hot Akara, Market Day with Mama and My New School Uniform, then African picture books such as A Tiny Seed. Our Primary 1–3 phonics pack helps with letter sounds and sight words.
Our originals and printables use British English, as taught in Nigerian schools. Classic books are shown in their original editions.
Yes — Pagine has free Hausa picture books today, and we are adding Yoruba, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin stories from the African Storybook.
Reading tips and seasonal stories related to this collection.