What a Fablebee story can be about
Eighteen themes, or your own idea in your own words. Whichever you choose, the story stars your child by name — and you pick who reads it and how long it runs.
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The big things that are about to happen
A story is a gentle way to rehearse something before it arrives. These are the ones parents come looking for by name, usually about a week before the thing itself.
Starting school
The first day, told the night before — with your child walking in, finding a peg, and coming home again at the end of it.
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A new baby
A story about becoming the older one, in which the new arrival is genuinely good news and your first child is still the main character.
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Using the potty
Matter-of-fact and cheerful, with none of the fuss — the tone that tends to work better than encouragement does.
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A first sleepover
Being away for a night, and the bit that actually worries them: what happens if they want to come home.
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Losing a tooth
A wobbly tooth, the moment it goes, and the gap afterwards. Reliably the most requested story of about age six.
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Moving house
Boxes, a new bedroom, and the question underneath it — whether the new place will ever feel like theirs.
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The lesson you are trying to land
Told rather than explained, and starring the child you are explaining it to — which works considerably better than the fourteenth conversation about it.
Kindness
Somebody who needed help, and your child being the one who noticed.
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Honesty
Owning up, and the discovery that it is very much less bad than the alternative.
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Sharing
The one thing everybody wanted, and what happened when it was shared out.
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Patience
Waiting for something worth waiting for, and finding out that the waiting ends.
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Courage
Being frightened and doing it anyway — which is the only definition of brave that is any use to a child.
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Not giving up
Something hard, attempted badly several times, and then managed.
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Somewhere else entirely
For the nights when nothing needs to be taught and everybody just wants a good story.
Dinosaurs
Very large, very old, and improbably friendly.
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Pirates
A ship, a map, and a crew that now includes your child by name.
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Outer space
Planets, quiet, and the strange fact that up there nothing falls down.
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Under the sea
Down where it is dark and slow and full of things with too many arms.
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An enchanted forest
Trees that pay attention, and a path that was not there yesterday.
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A bear adventure
Long grass, a cold river, and something large asleep at the end of it.
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Or something else entirely
None of the above is a limit. You can describe the story you want in your own words — the school trip that is coming up, the imaginary friend who lives behind the sofa, the grandparent who lives too far away. The themes exist because a blank box is hard to start from, not because they are the menu.
Every story, whichever route you take, can be three, five, ten, fifteen or twenty-five minutes long, read by any of the six narrators. Length never changes the price.