Pick Your Buddy, Pick Your Path, Travel Through Time
Made for ages 7 to 11
You don’t read this one from page 1 to the end. At the bottom of most pages your kid decides what happens next. Every path runs through real moments in the city’s history, and the story changes every time they read it again. A story book, a puzzle book and a history lesson, and none of it feels like school.
A Story They Get To Steer
It starts on an ordinary morning under Big Ben. The bells ring thirteen times, a glowing pocket watch lands in your kid’s hands, and they get to choose who comes along. Gavin knows every date. Jake can find his way anywhere and always has snacks. Avilene sees art and music in everything. Poppy has the best nose in the city. Each buddy takes the story down a different path through a different century, so the book is really four books, and a secret ending opens once all six passport stamps are collected.
Along the way they solve puzzles, draw, write and collect stamps and items in the time traveler passport. Some choices lead to funny dead ends. That’s the point. They turn back, pick again, and read the page they skipped. I taught social studies for eight years and this is the closest I’ve come to a kid asking for more history.
A Closer Look
Ten pages from the London edition, up close, so you know exactly what you are getting before you buy.
What Children Receive
- Four buddy paths, each through a different century
- A time traveler passport with six era stamps to collect
- Puzzles, codes and drawing pages on the way
- Funny dead ends that send them back to try again
- A secret ending that opens when every stamp is in
- A Time Traveler certificate, signed by the watch
- A page of local words with how to say them
- 76 pages, US Letter and A4, print or tablet
Where the Adventure Is Live Right Now
London is first. Every city in the Learning Library gets its own edition, with its own centuries to travel through.
London
ages 7 to 11
Roman Londinium, the Tower, the Frost Fair on the frozen Thames, the Globe in 1599, Pudding Lane in 1666, and back under Big Ben to choose your ending.
Traveling With Different Ages
The same destination may be available in several formats, which makes it easier to choose a different experience for each child.
Tell me who is coming and how long you have.
That is usually enough to know if this is a ship, a train, or a car with the windows down.
