Stories about caring for nature follow heroes who want to understand and protect animals, plants and the place they live. These Kitapz stories are based on real creatures and real places, and children learn inside the story that protecting nature starts with knowing it.
Each story page includes discussion questions, 5W1H comprehension questions and a word list for parents and teachers.
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 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
