Personalized stories for real-life childhood challenges
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Choose what your child is working through: bedtime, screen time, big feelings, sharing, confidence and more. Maple Kids creates a personalized story around your child and includes a Parent Guide with conversation prompts and simple real-life practice.
3-page preview • No card required
Full 10-page digital storybook: $6 CAD
Digital product. Includes an illustrated PDF storybook, a narrated audiobook and a Parent Guide. Animated story video coming soon.
Evidence-informed • Built for shared reading • Parent Guide included
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Every sample starts with something a family was working through, and every one comes with its own Parent Guide.
Skill practiced: Taking turns and considering another child
Donya Shares and Makes Friends
Create a story for this challengeSkill practiced: Naming emotions and calming the body
Hessam and the Red Volcano Feeling
Create a story for this challengeSkill practiced: Using slow breathing to settle a busy body
Rosa and the Rainbow Breath
Create a story for this challengeThree steps from idea to storybook.
1Pick the moment your child is working through, then add their name and details.
2Read the first pages of their story before you decide. No card required.
3Unlock the full 10-page digital storybook for $6 CAD.
Keep the PDF • Listen together • Video coming soon
Parent Guide included with every behavioral story
Every behavioral story explains what the story is trying to teach, what each important page is doing, what you can ask while reading, and one small way to practice the idea in real life.
Story page
“When the screen went quiet, Alex's chest went hot and fast. It felt like a shout waiting inside. Alex put one hand there and said, out loud, “All done.””
Illustrated with your child as the hero, in your family's language.
Parent Guide
What this page is doing
Ask
Words to repeat
Try it in real life
Included free with every finished story, in your panel.
Every story comes with a narrated audiobook, so it can be read together at bedtime or listened to in the car.
A short audio guide for the adult, planned to accompany behavioral stories:
Launch offer
40% launch savingRegular $10 CAD
Preview 3 pages free. Pay only if you love it.
Create Their StoryA parent guide explains what each page is gently teaching.
A parent guide explains what each page is gently teaching.
Simple prompts that turn reading into a conversation.
The photo is used to create the story, then removed.
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Maple Kids is built and run in Canada.
After the book arrives: read it together, talk about it and practice in real life. Designed to support everyday learning, not to replace professional support.
The story begins with a situation your child recognizes from real life.
The story models an age-appropriate response, skill, routine or coping strategy.
The Parent Guide gives the adult simple questions and language to use while reading.
The family receives one small real-life activity connected to the story.
The story can be revisited so the idea and language become increasingly familiar.
Evidence-informed
Maple Kids uses evidence-informed principles from shared reading, child development, social-emotional learning, parent-child interaction and guided practice.
The American Academy of Pediatrics states that shared reading can support parent-child relationships and social-emotional, cognitive, language and literacy development.
Klass P, Miller-Fitzwater A, High PC, et al. “Literacy Promotion: An Essential Component of Primary Care Pediatric Practice.” Pediatrics. 2024;154(6):e2024069090.
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2024-069090Randomized research has found that interventions promoting parent-child shared reading and play can improve pathways associated with children's behavioral outcomes.
Weisleder A, Cates CB, Harding JF, et al. “Links between Shared Reading and Play, Parent Psychosocial Functioning, and Child Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial.” Journal of Pediatrics. 2019;213:187-195.e1.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.06.037A randomized study of four- to five-year-old children found that repeated shared reading of socially themed picture books was associated with improvements in empathy and prosocial behavior.
Chen H, Lyu D, Zhu L. “The effectiveness of social-themed picture book reading in promoting children's prosocial behavior.” Frontiers in Psychology. 2025.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1569925Structured emotion-themed picture-book activities have been associated with improvements in preschool children's emotion recognition, expression and regulation strategies.
Wang L, Cui R, Wan N, Hu W. “Reshaping the Ability–Strategy Link in Emotion Regulation: The Role of a Structured Picture-Book Intervention for Preschoolers.” Behavioral Sciences. 2025;15(8):1137.
DOI: 10.3390/bs15081137
Maple Kids is an educational parenting tool designed to support shared learning and conversation. It is not medical, psychological, diagnostic or therapeutic care, and it does not replace qualified professional support when needed.
These topics are never offered as ordinary entertainment categories. They come with stronger adult guidance, age-sensitive wording, and a clear note about when to seek qualified support.
Beyond everyday challenges, stories can be purely curious or purely joyful.
Preview 3 pages free. No card required.
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