What if a dragon made the pancakes?Every idea, a portal to wonder.
Every idea, a portal to wonder.Tonight, a slow one. Then sleep.
Your child says the silliest thing they can think of. Out comes a painted storybook they get to steer, read aloud in a kind voice. Wild and giggly by day, hushed and sleepy by night.Your child says an idea, and a small painted book opens. They choose which way it goes, the picture changes, and the ending remembers. Then it is time for sleep.
For ages 3 to 10, with a grown-up.
What will they come up with?
We have stopped guessing. Some ideas arrive at four, before breakfast. Some arrive at nine, with a plan and a diagram. Each one is a perfectly good book.
A detective who suspects the fridgeThe mouse has written down “crumbs” four times.Sam, age 9
A grumpy old gnome with a shiny red noseHe is not smiling. (He is, a bit.)Leo, age 4
A narwhal with stage frightThe crabs clapped before the show even started.Ada, age 5
Pirates that danceCaptain Pig has two left trotters.Theo, age 7
A rocket made from the garden shedThe co-pilot would like it noted that she said no.Noor, age 10
Pick the look.
Every story can be pictured five ways, and the choice is yours each time. Here is one idea, the dragon and the pancakes, in all five. Have a go.
It grows with them.
Tell us how old the listener is and the same idea comes back differently. The words adapt too, so a four year old and a nine year old each get a story written for them.
One silly idea in.
One whole book out.
A daytime book has a few choices in it and plenty to talk about. A bedtime book has one, and ends on a goodnight page. Either way it is theirs.
A dragon who makes pancakes for EVERYONE.
First, say the idea
One sentence is plenty. Add a first name and an age, 3 to 10, so the words and pictures fit the listener.
The pancake tower
Then they choose
Pancake tower, or spaghetti pot? The painting changes the moment they pick, so the story is plainly theirs.
The ending remembers
The slightly burnt pancake gets a flag and the best spot on the windowsill. The book goes on your family shelf, with its keepsake beside it.
No streaks. No points. No “one more”. The story ends when the story ends.
“Narrated by mom and dad, not some old elf.”
A line from the WonderWeave song, and still the plan.
A story lands differently in the voice that says goodnight. Reading in a parent's own voice is in an invite-only beta. Until your invitation arrives, you choose from four kind narrators. No elves are involved.
Your voiceInvite-only beta
And when the stars start to peep
Choose Bedtime and the whole of WonderWeave turns the lights down. The same book, told slowly, and built to end.
- Calm
- Night colours, large words, a slower voice.
- One choice
- Stones, or the heron? Just the one.
- Five pages
- Short enough to finish before the yawns win.
- A goodnight page
- It fades out. Nothing plays after it.
Goodnight, Pip
The heron set Pip down by the door, and one soft grey feather drifted after them. Pip stood it in a jar on the windowsill, where the moon could find it.
Then Pip curled up, tail over nose, and the river whispered goodnight.
The heron's feather: kept on the shelf
The End
Begin with one idea.
Your first 14 days are free, with no card to enter. After that you move to the Free plan on your own, and the books on your shelf will still be there.