For parents
What your child reads
Read the stories before your child does: the standard every line has to meet, every world we’ve built, and a full scene.
You should never have to wonder what's inside a story your child falls asleep thinking about. So here it is, in the open: the standard every line has to meet, every world we've built, and a full scene you can read right now, before your child does.
Our family safety standard, in plain words
Every story episode, in every world, is held to the same promises before your child ever sees it. The Fieldbook is true nonfiction for readers 8 and up: real predators, real survival, honest about danger, never gratuitous.
- Wonder over menace, alwaysReal tension, real stakes, a storm closing in or one night left, because a story with nothing to lose is a story nobody begs to continue. But never trauma: no graphic peril and no horror. Nothing dies on the page in our made-up worlds. True stories are honest about danger, never graphic. Your child can be gripped and still sleep well.
- Nothing we wouldn't read our own kidsNo ads, no romance, no politics, no scary-for-scary's-sake. Written and reviewed by us, line by line, before it reaches a child. Every child line is assembled only from words we authored and checked, and every line your child reads is checked so it uses only sounds already taught.
- The teaching is sacredThis is a structured-literacy program first and a story second, by design. If a storytelling choice ever competed with the reading rigor, rigor would win. In practice they pull together: the story exists to make the reading practice happen.
- Every line your child reads, they can actually readThe child's lines are built only from sounds they have already been taught, so they are never set up to fail on the page. You read the rich narration; your child reads the hero's lines, and those lines are the biggest moments in the story.
- The hero drives the story, and the hero is your childThe child's reading is what moves the plot. Every episode ends with a pull to tomorrow night, a reveal, a question, a door left open, because we want them asking for one more page.
- Dignity at every ageA six-year-old gets warmth and wonder. A fourteen-year-old gets a world that never talks down to them. Same worlds, same standard, written to the reader's register.
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The worlds
Every world is written in two registers, a bright one for younger readers (about 5 to 10) and a grown-up one for older readers (11 to 18), and the text itself is built only from the reading patterns your child has already been taught, matched to their step, never their grade. The Littles (ages 3 to 4) start with Play Time. Children who are ready to read real words begin with our First Books before the story worlds open.
Read a full scene, right now
This is a real beat from Emberwing, exactly as a family meets it once the first few sounds are taught. The dark lines are yours to read aloud. The highlighted line belongs to your child, and in the app, the story only moves when they read it.
Your family keeps dragons. Big ones, gold ones, with wings wide enough to shade the whole yard. And on a shelf all by itself sat one small egg, the smallest anyone had ever seen. "Too small," the keepers said. "It will never hatch."
You readBut Grandpa, the oldest keeper of all, carried that little egg straight to you. "Every keeper gets a first egg," he said, and his eyes did their twinkle. "This one waited for somebody who doesn't give up easy. Tell it who you are."
Your child readsThe egg went still… then, tap. tap-tap. A crack ran across the shell. Something inside had been waiting its whole life to hear a voice. Yours.
Every word in your child's line is built from sounds they have already been taught, so they can read it. That's the whole secret, and it holds at every level: a brand-new reader gets "I am Sam," and a stronger reader gets full sentences in the same scene.
Two worlds, Critter Clinic and Tidewatch, open from age 8. They carry storm and deep-water peril in the read-aloud narration, so they are held back from readers under 8 until a gentler version is written.
And if something ever misses the mark for your family
Tell us. We read every note personally, and the standard above is a promise we intend to be held to. Every world episode prints as a small illustrated storybook, so you can always read tonight's pages on paper first, before your child does.
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What A New Page is
A reading program you do together, at home.
Fifteen minutes a night, side by side, from first sounds to confident reading, for ages 3 to 18. Your child reads the hero’s lines in a real story, built only from the sounds your child has learned. You read the rest from a script, so you never have to guess what to say.
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Fifteen minutes a night.
A real story.
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