American
The heroes who built this country — and the legends it tells.
Honest American history and homegrown tall tales, at the right age — true stories and frontier folklore in one shelf.
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Paul Revere on a cold spring night. Helen Keller learning the word for water. The Wright Brothers in the wind at Kitty Hawk. Harriet Tubman walking under the North Star. These are the true stories every American kid should grow up with — told warmly, told honestly, told for bedtime.
And the tall tales America told itself as it grew up: Paul Bunyan and Babe in the great North Woods, Johnny Appleseed walking the Ohio frontier, John Henry against the steam drill, Pecos Bill riding a tornado. We credit the roots honestly — Br'er Rabbit is named as African American oral tradition, never retold with dialect.
No school-pageant sanitizing. Washington's character without scrubbing Washington's slavery. The First Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag present. Apolitical patriotism — founders, settlers, immigrants, inventors, ordinary people who did one brave thing. No living political figures. No rallies. Just the stories.
In American
A taste of what’s inside. The full library lives in the app.
- The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
- Harriet Tubman and the North Star
- Helen Keller Learns to Read
- The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
- Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
- John Henry the Steel-Drivin’ Man
- Johnny Appleseed
- Pecos Bill Rides the Tornado
Hear the rest of the library.
The full American library — plus the rest of the shelf — lives in the app. Ad-free. One subscription for the whole family. At bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.