-When you get free kids books by mail, there's no reason not to read to your kids. There has been a lot of research done to show that this is the case. He knows it in his heart, too.

It can be expensive to buy books for kids, but sometimes it isn't. It's especially good for kids who love reading and eat up books one by one, especially. To help your child's brain grow while still keeping your monthly budget in mind, you can get free kids books by mail (yup, snail mail AND email).

This is how:

20 Ways to Get Free Kids Books by Mail

None of this is better than the smell of books as you turn the pages of a book.

To read to your child with real books, there are a lot of websites you can join:

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

This might be the most popular thing on the list.

It's a fact!

She built it herself, and it has since sent more than 120 million books across the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Like the 1.5 million people who use the site, you have to register your kids so they can get free books. Imagination Library books can be sent to children ages 0 to five years old.

In Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, your child will get a book every time they sign up. This gives them a mail to look forward to.

The only problem with this site is that it only works in a few places. To find out if your area can be used, go to the site. For another thing, only kids who are younger than 5 (especially kids who haven't gone to school yet) get books.

Read Comingo

This app could help you and your bilingual child learn to love reading. They have books for kids in preschool through fifth grade.

If you live in certain parts of California, Florida, or Texas, you can only get the printed books delivered to your home there. Every four months, mail for kids' books comes.

However, the Read Conmigo Bookshelf can be seen by anyone who signs up for the service. So far, there are 43 bilingual books for kids on the "bookshelf" that is on the web. It's easy to get free book samples when you join Conmigo. You can read them on your phone or tablet right away.

Barnes and Noble Summer Reading Program

This is different.

As a rule, you'll need to buy a lot of books first: eight, to be exact. Your child will choose from a list of pre-grouped books for different age groups.

All summer, kids should read books and keep a "Summer Reading Journal" that lists what they liked about each one. This is the idea. Then, when your child's journal is done, you and your child should go to the nearest Barnes and Noble branch (sometime between May and September) to get a free book.

Swap Books with other Book-lovers

Getting free kids books if your kids are done with nursery rhymes and want to start reading fairy tales is one way to do it. You can trade your kids' books with other bookworms.

Most of the time, you need to sign up for the book-swapping website.

From there, you can either list the books you're ready to give away, or you can wait for other people to look for them. Both ways, once you find a match, you have to pay for the shipping costs to get it. There, you'll get good karma and a chance to ask for a book.

There may be different rules for swapping books at each site. Check to see if there are any before you swap books!

BookMooch

This site is based on points.

There are two ways to give books away:

Every time someone wants to read the books, you have to mail them. Whenever you "swap," you'll get points. These points will be used to ask for a book from someone else.

Books Free Swap

Only in the United States.

The recipient pays an average of $3.28 to send a book out. This is different from other swap sites, where you would have to pay for shipping costs to send the book out.

For example, you can search the "Wish List" feature, which means that you have a better chance of finding books with the same title as your books.

PaperBackSwap.com

People can swap more than 1.5 million books at any given time at this book club.

PaperBackSwap works the same as other book-swapping websites, but you'd have more choices of free books for kids to choose from there, too.

If you send a book to someone else, you'll have to pay to send it. If you want a book, you'll get it for free.

Free Books in Exchange for Reviews

Fresh Fiction

It can be a great hobby for people who like to read if you have a good writing voice.

This is because the site gives you free books if you write a review.

Not everyone can become a reviewer, but there is a short test run for those who want to.

Once you become a book reviewer, you'll be able to read a lot of books that are online. In the mail, you can get physical copies of books sent to your house.

A lot of kids' books are also available on the site. Most of the books on this site were written by the authors themselves. Fresh Fiction sells the best books as part of a book box subscription service through its sister site, freshfictionbox.com, which also sells the best books on its own.

NetGalley

People who write books send them to NetGalley so people can read them before they come out.

You and I can read books there for free, but we have to write a review in return.

People have trouble finding the categories, but NetGalley has sections for Children's Fiction and Children's Non-Fiction that you can look through.

OnlineBookClub.org

Web-based book club: It has been around for more than 10 years!

300,000 or more people are part of the club, and they get a free book in exchange for writing a review about it.

The first book review you write can even be a money-making job. The Online Book Club also pays book reviewers who have a lot of experience anywhere from $5 to $60, as well.

Enchanted Book Promotions

This company helps authors and publishers get their work out there.

One way Enchanted Book Promotions spread the word about a book is by giving book reviews to people like you and me, who can then read them and spread the word.

Not all the websites on this list allow you to leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads. This company lets you write a review on your own blog or website. For writing a book review, users get free books.

The company adds new books to the list of books that can be read for review. Check it out here, and if you're interested, just fill out the form.

Lola’s Book Tours

It's like Enchanted Book Promotions, but Lola's Book Tours is different.

Both companies help up-and-coming authors get their work in front of more people.

People who write book reviews can get a free copy of the books they want to read. That's all. You just need to put the review on your blog, or your own account from Goodreads or Amazon.

A list of available books can be found in the "Open Review Opportunities" area. Lola's also has a lot of adult fiction books, but it often has free children's and young adult books.

Free Online Books: How to get Free Books Sent to Your Kid’s Tablet

Digital copies of books are easier to find than paperbacks and hard copies.

You can do these things with eBooks:

Online, you can get PDFs of books for free and have them printed (with real pages)

You can get PDFs of books for free online. You can read the PDFs on your phone or tablet with a reading app.

It's a good idea to buy an electronic reading tablet or a "e-reader," like the Kindle or the Kobo. Then find free books for your kids from their libraries.

Amazon’s Kindle

If you want to find free Kindle books for kids, there's no better place to start than Amazon (creator of Kindle).

Every hour, the top 100 paid and top 100 free children's ebooks are added to the list.

You need to have an Amazon account so that you can just "buy" the ebook with one click. From there, all you need to do is check your Kindle to see if the book you chose was sent.

Make the most of the free books for kids on Amazon's Kindle library. It's hard to run out of free books for kids there. Take a look at Goodreads users from all over the world's list of 200+ free Kindle books for kids to get you going.

FreeKidsBooks.org

This website may look old, but it has a lot of free books that you can download and read for free.

Titles are only sorted by age group, but you can click on tags (like Public Domain, Non-fiction, Cars, Counting, the author's name, and so on) on each one.

You can read the book online, or you can get a free PDF version of it.

Project Gutenberg

To find classic children's books, like "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and "Peter Pan," it's very likely that Project Gutenberg has them.

It turns out that Project Gutenberg has a lot more subcategories for kids' books, like School Stories, Children's Myths, and Fairy Tales (among others).

The site has more than 56,000 free PDF books that you can download and read for as long as you want.

Then type in "children" or "kids" in the search field.

OpenLibrary.org

Like Project Gutenberg, the OpenLibrary is a site with a lot of books.

It has 3 million eBooks that you can borrow from the Lending Library. You can read one at a time for up to two weeks.

There are a lot of books in OpenLibrary that date back to 1450, including some of your favorite children's books, like "Gulliver's Travels," "Alice in Wonderland," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and so on. Browse through the Juvenile Fiction and Juvenile Literature sections to find hundreds of books for kids.

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