Grown-Up Guides

One for every character. Four in all.

A Grown-Up Guide is an invitation to play together. It takes every activity in a character's four Playbooks and shows you how to do it with your child — what to say, what to notice, and what their answers are quietly telling you about how much of the story they really understood.

Not a teacher's manual. A guide for the grown-up sitting next to a child, who wants to know what just happened and what it means. Written for parents and grandparents who want to understand, and for teachers and therapists who need it to hold up.

You do not need a teaching degree for any of it.

The Adventures of a Clever Girl Grown-Up Guide

Helping Children See, Connect, Predict, and Figure Things Out

A 100 page guide covering every activity in all four Clever Girl Playbooks. For each one: what it is, why it works, how to do it, how to make it easier or harder, and which learning differences it helps most.

The four Clever Girl storybooks: Defeats the Dragon · Fools the Fairy King · Tricks the Giant · Outwits the Witch

The Adventures of a Kind Boy

Coming soon

Empathy and logic, worked out across four stories. Find out more about The Adventures of a Kind Boy

The Adventures of a Brave Girl

Coming soon

Resilience, built one story at a time. Find out more about The Adventures of a Brave Girl

The Adventures of a Happy Boy

Coming soon

Literacy and confidence, across four stories. Find out more about The Adventures of a Happy Boy

The child's half of this

The Guide explains the activities. The Playbook is where your child does them — one Playbook for every story, sixteen in all, $11.95 each.