Family, Friendship & Feelings

Warm stories about sharing, big feelings and the people we love.

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13 enchanted tales to choose from

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 2-4

Nora's First Big Splash

A gentle pool-day story that turns nervous little steps into a proud first splash.

Made from Finn's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 2-4

Teddy's Turn to Share

When two friends want the same toy, your child helps Teddy discover taking turns and playing together.

Made from Emma's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 5-7

Dragon School's Kindest Flame

A young dragon's unusual cool flame becomes exactly what the school needs during the great baking day.

Made from Finn's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 5-7

The Great Neighbourhood Build

Your child brings different neighbours together to design and build the perfect treehouse for everyone.

Made from Cora's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 8-10

The Debate of the Mountain Giants

Two giant villages disagree over a river, and your child must listen carefully and help create a fair solution.

Made from Cora's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 2-6

The Biggest Little Helper

A tiny new baby is coming home today, and everything feels different. Your child learns to hold gently, whisper softly, and pick the perfect first teddy, discovering that being the big sibling is the most important job in the whole house.

Made from Finn's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 4-7

The Other End of the String

A tin can on a string drops over the garden fence one morning, and the voice on the other end is too shy to say its name. The child sends a biscuit down the line, then a drawing, then their best joke, and every gift comes back changed: half eaten, coloured in, answered with an even worse joke. But when the string goes quiet for a whole day, the child must do the truly brave thing and climb through the gap in the hedge to knock, and finds the shy new neighbour standing behind the door holding a welcome gift they were too nervous to give. Some friendships start with a whisper down a string; all of them start with somebody going first.

Made from Lydia's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 4-7

The Wagon That Wouldn't Go Home

The child sets out with the little wooden wagon on the simplest errand there is: returning one borrowed cup to the lady next door. But the wagon squeaks to a stop at every gate where somebody needs a hand. Oranges roll downhill and must be chased, a cat supervises from a shed roof and will not come down alone, a parcel is too heavy for a very small grandad. Each stop fills the wagon with thank-you gifts until there is no room left for the cup, and the child has to work out what the squeaky wagon has been teaching them all day: an errand is quick, but helping is what turns a street into a home.

Made from Lydia's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 4-8

The Basket of Borrowed Sunshine

The child's best friend has been home ill for three whole days, and the classroom feels wrong, like a puzzle missing its corner piece. So the child packs a basket with things no chemist sells: the smell of rain kept in a jam jar, the funniest joke in the world written very small, a drawing of everything the friend missed, and one warm orange from the windowsill that has spent all week saving up sunshine. At the friend's front door the child suddenly worries the whole basket is silly, until each small thing works its own kind of medicine, and the friend's laugh comes back before their voice does. A visit, it turns out, can do more than any spoonful.

Made from Lydia's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 2-6

The Lullaby in Your Pocket

There is a brand-new baby in the house, and the baby cries at exactly the hour the moon reaches the window. Mum tries milk, Dad tries rocking, Granny tries a song from her own mother, and still the small wail winds up the stairs. Then the child remembers the hum they keep for themselves, the one they hum into their pillow when the day has been too big, and tiptoes in to lend it. The baby holds on to the child's finger, the crying folds into breathing, and the whole house learns its newest rule: some jobs only a big brother or sister can do.

Made from Lydia's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 5-8

The Fort of Two Flags

The long drive to the cousins' house ends at a door the child only sees a few times a year, and behind it waits a cousin who has grown a whole centimetre and got better at everything, or so they claim. The visit begins as a contest: who builds faster, who climbs higher, whose paper plane flies farthest. But when the sofa-cushion fort they are both too proud to share collapses on both builders at the exact same moment, the only way to rebuild it before bedtime is together, and the new fort turns out to need two flags. By the goodbye hug in the doorway, the child knows the secret grown-ups already know: a cousin is a friend you never have to make from scratch.

Made from Lydia's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 5-7

The Wobbliest Tooth in Town

One ordinary Tuesday the child's front tooth goes wobbly, and suddenly nothing else in the world matters. It wobbles through breakfast, waggles through school, and hangs on stubbornly through an apple that was supposed to settle things once and for all. Everyone has advice: Dad's famous string trick, Granny's crusty bread, a best friend's solemn playground wisdom. But the tooth waits, as teeth do, for the silliest possible moment, and pops out mid-giggle at exactly the wrong time, which turns out to be exactly the right one. That night one small tooth under the pillow buys the biggest feeling there is: proof, at last, that you are growing up.

Made from Lydia's real photo

Family, Friendship & Feelings · Ages 5-8

The Day the Stabilisers Came Off

The little bike has worn its stabilisers like armbands for a whole year, and today Dad's spanner takes them off. The park path has never looked so long. First comes the wobble, then the tip, then the sting of a scraped knee and a long quiet think about giving up. But every fall teaches the child's body one more secret that words cannot: look ahead, not down; pedal brave, not slow. And on the seventh try the steadying hands on the saddle let go without saying so, and the child rides on alone, whooping with joy, all the way to the fountain and mostly back. Some things cannot be taught, only tried and tried until suddenly they are yours.

Made from Lydia's real photo

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Nora's First Big Splash

Teddy's Turn to Share

Dragon School's Kindest Flame

The Great Neighbourhood Build

The Debate of the Mountain Giants

The Biggest Little Helper

The Other End of the String

The Wagon That Wouldn't Go Home

The Basket of Borrowed Sunshine

The Lullaby in Your Pocket

The Fort of Two Flags

The Wobbliest Tooth in Town

The Day the Stabilisers Came Off

Family, Friendship & Feelings