Stories about patience are about things that do not pay off right away: waiting, watching, trying again. On Kitapz the hasty choice and the patient choice lead to different endings, so the child sees for themselves what patience changes.
Each story page includes discussion questions, 5W1H comprehension questions and a word list for parents and teachers.
Ages 8-10 25 min Educational Free
In this story, children help Ivy and her friends decide what to do when one pile of supplies can't fix all four of the schoolyard's problems. Careful planner Ivy works alongside Rory, who wants to start right away, observant Mia, and Caleb, whose pockets…
Values: teamwork, patience, responsibility
Ages 7-9 15 min Fantasy Free
In this story, children join Smokey, a cat who loves new streets, as he tries to turn a faint line to the clock tower into a real path by walking it again and again. Despite its title, it is not a retelling of Perrault's tale but a story about patience…
Values: patience, perseverance, teamwork
Ages 7-12 15 min Fantasy Free
In this story, children follow Kai, who hates leaving one square empty, into Cubia, where a placed cube can never be taken back. With him go his sharp-eyed friend Dani and Biko, a guide who talks in status reports. Readers decide when Kai rushes and when he…
Values: responsibility, patience, empathy
Ages 7-10 15 min Fantasy Free
In this story, children follow Kaan, who dozes off over his dinosaur homework and finds himself in a valley of giant ferns, where two sounds seem to call him. Facts from his book about fossil tracks, levers and long-necked dinosaurs prove useful, showing how…
Values: curiosity, patience, kindness
Ages 7-10 20 min Fantasy Premium
In this story, children follow Ada through a brass door that appears overnight in an old stone wall, into Skygate Academy, where doors talk and sing but some have fallen strangely silent. Setting impatient Rory beside careful Ada, it shows why it pays to…
Values: curiosity, patience, empathy
