Every Kidbox News story is inspired by one real thing happening in the world — a deep-sea octopus, a Moon mission, a spelling bee champion — rewritten as a beautifully illustrated story your 4 to 9 year old can follow and love.
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One true story at a time. Never the same kind twice.
NASA unveils plans to build the first-ever city on the Moon
A little Moon Rover and a mighty Construction Rover team up to build the world's first Moon city, dome by glowing dome.
USA, Canada, and Mexico set to co-host this summer's World Cup
A fan in Mexico, a player in the USA, a kid in Canada — three young dreamers meet under the stadium lights and play as one team.
13-year-old crowned national champion after marathon Scripps spelling bee finals
Down to the final two at the National Spelling Bee, Shrey is dead-even with his rival — until one gnarled word changes everything.
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A tiny octopus was discovered in the deep sea. A crew got ready to fly around the Moon. A kid not much older than yours won the national spelling bee. These things really happened. Kidbox News turns them into stories your kid can follow.
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Every story starts with something that actually happened in the world today.
Each new story gives you ten minutes together that are just yours.
Your kid brings up octopuses and Moon missions at dinner, all on their own.
Every story is illustrated and written so a young kid can follow every word.
“At dinner my daughter announced that astronauts are about to fly around the Moon. She's seven. I didn't even know Artemis II was a thing. Now we both follow it.”
“We read every new story together before school. Ten minutes, just us. The deep-sea octopus had him asking questions I couldn't answer, in the best way.”
“I've deleted every other kids' app. Same cartoons, same games, same begging to keep playing. This is the first one that hands him something real, and he picks it himself.”
We're parents first. We wanted our kids to grow up curious about the real world, not just cartoons and games on a tablet. So at dinner we started explaining the news ourselves: a new animal in the deep sea, a rocket headed for the Moon, a kid who did something remarkable. They loved it. But no app did this well. The stories were too hard, or simply made up. So we built Kidbox News: true stories from the world, illustrated and written for kids. We'd love your family to be the first to read them.
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It's written for kids roughly 4 to 9. Younger kids love it read aloud. Older kids read each new story themselves.
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We're starting with the first story very soon. After that, we'll publish new stories regularly — subscribe and we'll email you each time a new one drops.
We start with real events from trusted news. Then our writers and editors, all working with kids in mind, rewrite each one as a story a child can follow. An illustrator gives every story its cover.
However you like. Read it together at breakfast, or hand over the iPad and let them read it themselves. Most parents end up reading along because they're curious too.
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