American
Young Abraham Lincoln and the Books by Firelight
A poor farm boy who would walk miles to borrow a book, then read it by the light of the fire because there was nothing else to read it by.
This Week · Curiosity
Curiosity: what's a question only you seem to ask?
For littler ones: What's something you wonder about that nobody else seems to ask?
This week we're wondering about curiosity — the quiet kind. Not what everyone's asking, but the one question that seems to be yours alone. It's a fine thing to turn over in the car or at the table, because the most interesting questions are often the ones nobody around you is asking yet.
This week's stories
American
Sequoyah and the Talking Leaves
A Cherokee man who couldn't read a word of any language, and wondered how talking could be caught on paper — then spent years inventing a way to write in Cherokee — the first writing his people ever had.
American
The Wright Brothers and the First Flight
Two brothers who fixed bicycles for a living and kept asking a question most grown-ups had given up on: how might a person actually fly?
Talk about it
- Is there something you wonder about that your friends don't seem to wonder about? What is it?
- Sequoyah, Lincoln, and the Wright brothers each kept asking their question for years. What's something you've wondered about for a long time?
- Where do you think your questions come from — something you saw, something you read, or somewhere else?
A new question every week.
Listen together in the app — short audio stories for kids 4–10, at bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.
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