Olive and the Dragon Who Learned to Share
Age 4–6 · Emotional
Parent-controlledSafety-checkedPersonalised
Stories can start with anything
- Dinosaurs
- Magnets
- Fractions
- Patterns
- Saying thank you
- Starting school
- Trying new food
- Rainbows
- Melting and freezing
- Measuring
- The human body
- Feeling scared
- Flying
- Being on stage
- Ocean animals
- Sharks
- The alphabet
- Why we sleep
- Trying again
- A new pet
- Lunar New Year
- Planets
- Mushrooms
- Music
- How we see
- Listening
- Recycling
- Other countries
How it works
From a question to an adventure made around them.
Tell Yarnily what matters. We shape it around your child, bring it to life as an adventure, and give them something to do with it once the reading is done.
- 01/ Choose the goal
A question, a subject, a feeling, a big day ahead.
Type it in plain English: no dropdowns, no fixed path. A curiosity from school, a skill to practise, an experience coming up.
Do I have to go to the dentist?Why we share: for a 4-year-old - 02/ Made around them
Yarnily shapes the learning around your child.
Their age, their interests, the characters they already know, their language, what they have explored before. Far more than a name and a photo: the explanation itself is made relevant to them.
Age-adapted for a curious 5-year-oldStarring Aanya · with characters she knows - 03/ The adventure
Learning becomes an adventure.
An illustrated, narrated story they star in. Pictures make unfamiliar ideas, feelings and places easier to grasp; narration supports children who learn by listening or are beginning to read.
Safety-checkedRead · listen · revisit - 04/ After the last page
They use it. You see what it explored.
The adventure can carry on into something to do with it: made from that story, with a sheet to print and one small thing to try away from the screen. Alongside it, a parent guide shows the words it introduced and a question to talk about together.
Words met
eruptmagmaashWater one plant together, before bed
Why Yarnily is different
Personal today. Connected tomorrow.
Many learning programmes follow a predefined path. Many general story tools begin with a request and end with a completed story. Yarnily begins with a question, feeling, subject or experience that matters to your child, and helps the learning continue beyond the adventure.
You choose what matters
Every adventure begins with the question, concept, emotion, skill or experience that is relevant to your child today: not a predefined lesson plan.
Made around their world
Yarnily adapts the language, ideas, characters and adventure to your child's age, interests, experiences and familiar world: far more than a name on a template.
Discovering and Becoming
Every adventure supports one of two journeys: discovering the world, or becoming themselves, across six worlds to explore and twelve areas of growing up.
The learning continues
You can see what was explored, continue the conversation and find a meaningful direction for what comes next.
What that looks like
“Meera is nervous about Friday's dentist visit.”
Meera and the Brave Little Stegosaurus
A gentle adventure where Meera, five, and mad about dinosaurs, walks a worried little stegosaurus through its first check-up, chair, bright light and all.
- Words introduced: check-up · brave · dentist
- Talk about it: what helped the stegosaurus feel ready?
“Why is the moon out during the day?”
The Moon Who Stayed for Breakfast
Arjun, seven, star of a rooftop mystery with his Nani: chasing the pale daytime moon across the sky and finding out why it doesn't only belong to the night.
- Words introduced: orbit · phases · reflect
- Explore next: why the moon changes shape
After the last page
A story to read. Then something to do with it.
Hearing an idea is one thing; using it is another. So a Yarnily adventure doesn't have to stop when the story does: it can carry on into a few quiet minutes of doing, built from that same adventure and nothing else.
Made from their own adventure.
Not a worksheet that would suit any child on any evening. The pictures are the ones they were just looking at, the characters the ones they just met, the words the ones the adventure introduced.
- Put the clouds in order, smallest to biggest
- Match the watering can to the thirsty plant
Something for the kitchen table.
A sheet that prints with the adventure itself. Crayons, a flat surface and no screen at all: a way back into the story on a Sunday morning, on a long drive, or while dinner finishes.
- Draw what you think happens next
- Prints together with the storybook
And one small thing in the real world.
A gentle invitation out of the story and into the room it was read in, chosen to suit what the adventure was about. Water one plant together. Pour your own glass. Find three round things in the kitchen.
- Two minutes, side by side
- Nothing to photograph, nothing to submit
Prints with tonight's adventure
Draw what you think happens next
An invitation, never a test.
Nothing is timed, scored or marked. There is no badge counting what your child hasn't finished, no reminder and no debt to clear: skip it entirely and nothing is lost, because the adventure was already complete. And there is nothing for you to set up: Yarnily chooses what suits the story and your child's age.
Their learning journey
See where their curiosity has taken them.
Every Yarnily adventure supports one of two journeys: discovering the world or becoming themselves. Follow the words, subjects, feelings and growing-up areas that appeared across your child's adventures. Yarnily reflects what they encountered and explored. It does not grade or assess your child.
Sample · illustrative
Create a story for Aanya
✶ Yarnily's suggestions
Why the sky turns orange at sunset.
How things work
Create story →
Taking turns makes playtime fun.
Social skills
Create story →
✶ Worlds & areas to explore
Tap one to bring it into the next story.
How things work
Nature & animals
Empathy
Resilience
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From Aanya's stories
the words, worlds and feelings you've met together
Words met0
bubbled · whirled · pictured +7 more
Worlds explored0
Nature & animals · How things work
Feelings met0
noticing their own feelings
The public library
Explore learning adventures families enjoy. Free.
Learning adventures from Yarnily's public library are free to read before you decide anything. When you are ready, Yarnily can create a new adventure around your own child's age, interests and world.
Your child's private adventures are never made public unless a parent explicitly chooses to share them.
Designed with learning and childhood in mind
Informed by established approaches to social-emotional learning, age-appropriate reading, knowledge development and character growth.
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Age 7–9 · Decision-making
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What makes learning personal
Freshly written for the child reading it.
Every Yarnily adventure is a one-off: concepts and language adapted to your child's age, woven around the things they care about right now. Not a stock template with a name swapped in.
- 01
You choose what it helps them understand.
A question, concept, feeling or upcoming experience: the adventure begins with what matters to your child.
- 02
Adapted to their age and world.
Language, pacing, context and the explanation itself are shaped around the child reading it.
- 03
See what the adventure explored.
A parent guide highlights ideas, words and a question to talk about together: never a fake score.
- 04
Something to do when the reading is done.
An adventure can continue into a short activity made from that story, a sheet to print for the table, and one small thing to try away from the screen: never scored, never required.
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Discovering and Becoming.
A clear learning structure helps children discover the world and navigate growing up, across six worlds to explore and twelve areas of growing up.
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Read, listen and revisit.
Narration supports children who learn through listening or are beginning to read, while every completed adventure stays in their private library.
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Made personally for them.
Add their name, interests, photo and familiar characters, then read, print or share the finished adventure privately.
Parent FAQ
The questions parents actually ask.
Honest answers, in plain language. If something's missing, tell us.
Anything age-appropriate: a question (why is the moon out in the day?), a school subject (fractions), a feeling (handling anger), a skill (why we share), or something coming up (the first day at the dentist). Type it in plain English. Yarnily turns it into a learning adventure your child stars in.
Yarnily won't put a copyrighted or trademarked character (Peppa Pig, Moana, Elsa, Harry Potter, Pokémon, Paw Patrol and the like) on the page, because those characters belong to their creators and reproducing them isn't ours (or yours) to do. Instead, Yarnily keeps the spirit your child asked for and gives them an original friend to star alongside: a cheerful puddle-jumping piglet, a brave girl who sails the open ocean, a hidden school for young spellcasters. Your child still gets the adventure they wanted, with characters Yarnily creates and owns, so the story is truly, only theirs.
Every adventure is designed using established principles of child-centred learning: the science of vocabulary and reading, the CASEL 5 for social-emotional learning, and long-standing frameworks for how children grow. The learning journey shows real, derived signals in plain language (words met, worlds explored, feelings met), never a single fake score. We count artefacts; we never grade the child.
The adventure can continue into something to do with it: a short activity made from that same story (its pictures, its characters, the words it introduced), a sheet you can print for the kitchen table, and one small thing to try away from the screen, like watering a plant together before bed. Nothing is timed, scored or marked, and nothing is required: the story is complete on its own, and skipping the rest costs your child nothing. There's no badge counting what they haven't finished. Yarnily chooses what suits the story and your child's age, so there's nothing for you to set up.
Start with what matters
Start with one thing your child needs to understand.
Turn a question, feeling or big moment into an adventure made around your child. Their first complete illustrated learning adventure is free to create, read and keep. No card required.
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