Stories about friendship follow friends who solve a problem together, fall out and make up, and learn to trust each other. On Kitapz the child chooses how the hero treats a friend and sees how different choices affect the friendship.
Each story page includes discussion questions, 5W1H comprehension questions and a word list for parents and teachers.
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 Educational Free
In this story, children help Daisy find out why a handful of caterpillars vanishes from Granny Hattie's silkworm room every morning. It introduces silkworms raised on mulberry leaves and explores the difference between looking guilty and being proven guilty…
Values: fairness, friendship, honesty
Ages 8-12 20 min Adventure Free
In this story, children help Ben deliver nine birthday boxes on time after all their labels fall off. Time is measured by rings dropping from the burning Day Candle, so readers work out with Ben and rule-loving Lina how many trips they can make. Choices…
Values: teamwork, responsibility, friendship
Ages 7-10 15 min Adventure Free
In this story, children follow Hero, a jumpy rooster hailed as brave after an accident, as he tries to work out what is making a mysterious night-time sound. It invites talk about tall tales versus what really happened, and about hiding fear versus sharing…
Values: courage, honesty, friendship
Ages 7-12 25 min Fantasy Free
In this story, children join Maya, who likes everything finished and in its place, as she tries to fix a neighborhood that runs backward after one hasty move. Setting her love of order against very different ways of seeing things, it opens a conversation…
Values: responsibility, curiosity, friendship
Ages 7-10 20 min Educational Free
In this retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale “The Town Musicians of Bremen”, children set off with Grey, an old donkey no longer wanted after years of carrying sacks. Grey patiently listens to the hurt and shy animals he meets, and each begins to wonder…
Values: friendship, teamwork, self-confidence
Ages 7-10 25 min Educational Premium
In this story, children join Ellie, who is too full of questions to sleep, and Twinkle, a tiny star afraid to rest in case she goes out, on Granny Moon's trip across the night sky. They wonder why stars twinkle, and the story gently opens up talk about…
Values: curiosity, friendship, empathy
