When learning feels like play, amazing things happen.

One Playbook for every story. One Grown-Up Guide for every character.

Why these learning activities are different

Most reading practice hands a child a page of exercises and hopes the skill transfers. We do the opposite. Every activity is tied to a moment your child already cares about, in a story they have already read or watched.

That matters more than it sounds. A maze here is not really a maze — the pictures along the path are the story's defining moments, laid out in the order they happen, so solving it means remembering the plot. A craft page is not really a craft. It is your child showing what the story meant to them, using their hands because their hands work better than their spelling.

Visual thinking is the skill being taught. Not a description of the illustrations. A taught, learnable skill: look closely, work out what is happening, predict what comes next, explain it to someone else. Children who read late, or read with difficulty, are often very good at this already. Nobody ever told them it counted.

Every activity is built around six learning actions — Seeing, Interpreting, Expressing, Solving, Connecting, and Predicting — a complete path designed for the way visual learners think.

And every single one is designed to be fun. Not worksheet fun. The kind a child asks to do again.

What the learning activities do

Show understanding without decoding. A child who cannot yet read the words can match a face to a feeling, put story events in order, or draw what happened next. These activities meet them where they are and let them show what they know.

Build creative expression. Every activity includes open-ended work that invites imagination — drawing, storytelling, role play, and creative problem solving. There are no wrong answers here.

Make learning social. Many activities are designed to be done together — a child and a grown-up, a small group, or a classroom. Learning alongside someone you trust changes everything.

Work for a mixed group, not one kind of learner. The same six learning actions reach a confident reader who rushes, a reluctant reader who stalls, and a child who has never decoded a sentence. Every activity comes with a way to make it easier and a way to make it harder, so one page serves the whole range. It is particularly strong for dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and CAPD. Those four profiles shaped its design. It is not limited to them.

Story time is the perfect time for big conversations

Every activity includes questions that invite children to use the characters to explore big ideas — emotions, choices, consequences, and relationships. The characters do the heavy lifting. The grown-up just asks the question.

At least a third of our activities and posts are designed for exactly this — turning story time into ten minutes of real connection. Busy parents do not need more to do. They need the right question at the right moment.

Storybook Playbooks

One Playbook for every story, sixteen in all. A 32-page book your child writes in, draws in, and cuts up. When it is finished, it is proof of what your child can do — in their own hand, on their own pages. $11.95 each.

Grown-Up Guides

The Playbook gives your child the activities. The Guide explains them to you — one per character, covering every activity in that character's four Playbooks. What it is, why it works, how to do it, how to make it easier or harder, and which learning differences it helps most. You do not need a teaching degree for any of it. $19.95 each.

Or subscribe and print at home

Every activity, delivered digitally. You print what you need, when you need it. No shipping, no waiting, and nothing to reorder when a page gets used up.

Story Coach — $9/month

Every activity for the current character month — 60 in all — including that month's Grown-Up Guide, ready to print. What's included

Free — $0

Every read-along video and article gathered in one place, plus three downloadable activities a week. What's included

Print as much as you need for the children in your own care — your own family, or the children you work with one to one and in small groups. Licensing for a whole classroom, practice or library arrives later this year.

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