Tools for Families

Built like a case file for an eleven year old. Real evidence across the city, a theory to build and defend, and a certificate to earn at the end. Museums and monuments get treated like evidence, not just a plaque to read.

Older kids take this seriously, and that is exactly the point.

A sketchbook for the age where a coloring page is an insult. Art, music, food, architecture and design, spread across real studios of the city, with room to write and draw what they actually noticed.

This is the one people buy first, and the one that comes back out on the next trip.

A story with something to do on every page. Looking, counting, drawing and matching, all built around a real day in the city, made for a kid who still wants a grown up close by.

This is the one I hand Avilene when the older two need a minute.

Print it, cut it up and laminate it if you want, and you have a deck of the city to hunt for. Kawaii art, a binder ring, and country and city dividers so the collection actually grows.

It is the one Avilene reaches for first, every single time.

For the flight, the train and the drive nobody warned you about. An airplane and train activity book built for a toddler’s attention span, not an adult’s.

This is the one that buys you a quiet hour when you need it most.

Routes, codes and predictions in a school notebook style kids actually want to fill in. Built for the seven year old who is bored fourteen minutes into a six hour flight.

Something to plan, solve and notice, the whole way there.

Budgets, routes and exchange rates, built for kids who actually enjoy math. It hands one leg of the trip to your almost teenager and lets them run the numbers.

This exists because Gavin wanted to be trusted with something real, and I wanted a reason for him to look up from his phone.

Eight real recipes from the city, with the food stories behind them and a tasting diary the kids fill in themselves. Not a recipe card. Why the dish exists here, then you go make it.

We come home and the kids want to cook the food again, and that turns out to be the part that sticks.

Before, during and after. A travel scrapbook and memory album for the whole family, with room for the ticket stub, the drawing from the train, the receipt from the place with the good chips.

It is the one I did not have for our first big trip and wish I had.

One page, one card, a full day of looking out the window. Print a copy for every kid in the back seat.

It is the cheapest thing in the shop and the one that gets used the most.