Nature stories put children right in the middle of animals, plants and natural events. The nature stories on Kitapz are short, illustrated and interactive, and each one is set in a real place in Türkiye: the hero gets curious, observes, collects clues and asks someone who knows. At every choice point the child decides which way the story goes.
Each story page has a corner for parents and teachers with short, sourced facts about the real topics in the story, 5W1H comprehension questions and a word list.
Ages 11-12 8 min Nature Free
June in the Munzur Valley. Zoe has come to spend the summer at her aunt's trout farm beside the stream, and she soon learns that fish go missing from the ponds every single night. Everyone blames the fox, and a neighbor is just waiting for Friday evening to…
Ages 11-12 8 min Nature Free
Lake Salda's snow-white shore and the puffy mounds in the water remind Aiden of Mars. His dad, meanwhile, wants to take a bottle of white sand home to Mom as a souvenir. What are these mysterious mounds, why can't they ever heal once they break, and will…
Ages 7-8 8 min Nature Free
In this story, children work like detectives with Evan during Giresun's hazelnut harvest, studying nibbled shells up close and comparing them with the suspects' shells. It shows how unfair it is to blame someone without proof, and why it pays to look…
Values: fairness, friendship, curiosity
Ages 9-10 8 min Nature Free
In this story, children gather evidence with Clara about the stork nest on her grandpa's cracked barn chimney, checking a teacher's stork records and listening to the village builder. As well as showing how storks recognize their nests, it takes seriously…
Values: curiosity, family, caring for nature
Ages 7-8 8 min Nature Free
In this story, children join Archie in looking for the reason behind what Grandpa calls stubbornness: when does Peanut stop, when doesn't she, and what is stopping her at that bend? Set during the olive harvest, it shows how watching closely and seeing things…
Values: curiosity, empathy, family
Ages 9-10 8 min Nature Free
In this story, children help Ellie work out why pearl mullets heading upstream from Lake Van can't get over a knee-high stone dam. They watch the water closely, spot small differences and ask why when an idea fails, all while weighing the feelings of Max, who…
Values: curiosity, teamwork, caring for nature
Ages 9-10 15 min Nature Free
In this story, children help Ella track the bear that knocked over her granny's beehives without going near it, using fur on a wire, prints in the mud and a camera trap's photos. Uncle Hank wants to move the hives and Granny Hattie wants them to stay, so Ella…
Values: curiosity, caring for nature, teamwork
Ages 9-10 15 min Nature Free
In this story, children help Daphne and her cousin Kieran find out why baby turtles crawled toward the dune instead of the sea, drawing the tracks and checking the volunteer team's records. It shows how hatchlings find the sea and why dark nights matter to…
Values: caring for nature, curiosity, empathy
