Ages 7-8 is when children have just learned to read and start reading on their own. Stories for this age come in short parts with plenty of dialogue and familiar words, plus a few new ones to keep curiosity alive. On Kitapz, a dyslexia-friendly font and other reading aids make first reading easier, and choice points keep children turning the page.
Each story page has 5W1H questions and a word list for a short chat after reading.
Ages 7-8 8 min Adventure Free
It's Saturday morning, just one hour before the shadow play begins, and Hacivat has vanished into thin air, leaving Karagöz all alone on the screen! Before the doors open, Daphne must either find Hacivat or make the whole hall laugh with a show without him…
Ages 7-8 8 min Educational Free
Riley's blue bike always pulls to one side, and tomorrow morning the whole family is going on an island ride. Is the bike broken, is the path crooked, or is something else pulling it? You choose where to look, then find the answer with Riley in the wheel…
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 7-8 8 min Fantasy Free
In this story, children join Daisy in tracing Granny Zara's missing brooch on the day of a henna night, while the grown-ups blame a stray cat. Her scarf lets her understand animals but turns her own words into animal noises, so the story also explores how to…
Values: fairness, empathy, family
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 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 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 6-10 25 min Fantasy Free
In this story, children join Efe, who always puts off tidying his room, as he finds a tiny glowing door under his bed and must choose between opening it and telling his mom. The fantasy links putting things off, responsibility and teamwork to children's own…
Values: responsibility, curiosity, teamwork
Ages 5-8 10 min Educational Free
In this story, children explore static electricity with Finn, whose fleece sweater crackles: they see a balloon rubbed on hair stick to the wall and hear more crackles as he shuffles across the carpet. Finn's excitement as the self-declared Captain Spark…
Values: curiosity, family
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 7-9 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 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 7-11 15 min Adventure Free
In this story, children meet Puff, a living dough boy who climbs out of Ada's bowl after she guesses at a recipe measurement. Readers' choices decide whether Ada, hiding Puff as he swells in the heat, shares her secret with her little brother Rory and…
Values: honesty, empathy, teamwork
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 7-12 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 7-12 25 min Educational Premium
In this story, children follow Nolan, a fast boy used to playing alone, as he is invited to a tournament and meets his shy new teammate, Owen. It weighs wanting to be the star against playing together, and lets readers hear how the child on the sidelines…
Values: teamwork, sharing, empathy
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
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
Ages 7-10 15 min Educational Premium
In this story, children follow River on a rainy day as she turns buttons, spools, keys and ribbons from her mom's drawer into a world on the rug. It invites talk about how boredom can spark imagination and why sharing something you made can feel hard…
Values: curiosity, sharing, teamwork
For reading tips and what to look for at each age, see: Book recommendations by age
