Open the little drawer in the base of the music box and the Workshop Book comes out. Every rider on the carousel has a page in it: a short story, a question for your child, and a card of true facts. One page is about a minute, read aloud. Then the key.
The drawer sits in the base, under the riders. Tap it and the book opens on its cover; swipe to turn the pages, or go to All pages and pick an animal. Parents can also open it from the parents’ area, where it shows how many friends have a page so far. It is a book, read by you, in your voice.
The story: four or five short sentences about what the animal does when the day ends, with a sound to make together. Hrrrmm. Quack. Baa.
The question: one thing to do or say back. Stand very still, like a sleepy horse. Do a soft rabbit thump with your foot.
The facts: where it lives, how big it is against things a child knows (about as high as your tummy, about as long as your pillow), what it eats, and one Did you know.
No. 001HorseThe Standing SleeperThe horse stands quiet in the dark field. It can doze standing up, legs tall and still. Hrrrmm, a soft, sleepy breath.
Can you stand very still, like a sleepy horse?
No. 027TarsierThe Big-Eyed Night LeaperAll day, the tarsier sleeps, holding tight to a branch. When night comes, it opens its big, round eyes. Blink, blink. Then it leaps from tree to tree.
Can you open your eyes big and round, like a tarsier?
From the Philippines pack. Its page arrives with the pack.
The nine riders that come with the app have pages from the first night: horse, bear, rabbit, duck, cat, cow, pig, sheep and dog. Every rider in a pack brings its page with it, from the fox and the owl in Forest to the carabao, the tarsier, the maya and the bangus in Philippines. The seasonal riders that arrive as gifts have pages too. Until an animal arrives, its card in All pages sits in shadow and reads Still to come.
Each page is written in short sentences for a parent’s voice, with the animal’s sound where a child can join in. The facts are checked against museum and wildlife references, kept to what a small child can picture, and sized against things a child knows: a pillow, a picture book, a grown-up’s hand. Nothing on a page is a reward, a score or a thing to collect.
No. You read the page; your child answers with a sound or a movement. The question at the end of each page asks for something a two-year-old can do: stand very still, do a soft thump, say one loud quack and one soft one.
In the little drawer in the base of the music box. Tap the drawer and the book opens on its cover; swipe to turn the pages. Parents can also open it from the parents’ area, under Workshop Book.
No. It comes with the app, and every rider that arrives brings its page with it, whether it came in the box, in a pack, or as a seasonal gift. There is nothing to buy inside the book.
About a minute, read slowly: a story of four or five sentences, one question, and a short card of facts. The idea is one page, then the key, then sleep.
One page, then the key
The book comes with the app, and so do the nine animals it starts with.
Or turn the key first at hele.toys/try