School Stories for Kids

Stories for kids about school β€” presentations, playground politics, the school play, the project that falls apart. Free audio adventures with original songs, for the bits of the school day nobody warns you about.

5 episodes

The parts of school that are actually hard

Almost none of the hard things about school are the lessons. They are standing up in front of everyone to speak, which is what Nathan is dreading in The King and Queen of Dino Beach. They are two bigger kids who have taken the handball court and made it clear there is no room left, which is The Mushroom Jelly Jam.

They are being cast as a tree in the school play when you wanted a real part, which is The Big Act. They are a group project collapsing the day before it is due, and a water bottle that has vanished somewhere between the last lesson and home.

Every one of those turns into an adventure somewhere else β€” a volcano island, a troll feast, a corn-stalk theatre β€” and every one of them comes back to the classroom it started in with something Nathan can actually use on Monday.

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