Daily Adventure runs mornings. It did until yesterday. This week we launched a bedtime mode that plays after the teeth are brushed and the lights are off. It reads one of the classic stories (Aesop or Grimm depending on what the family has selected) and then stops.
A small feature change, a slightly bigger thing for what we believe about children and reading.
Most of the visible Story Seeds work is about the book in the hand. We send physical books to schools and run paper-based writing competitions. The book is usually the thing.
But the work we have done over two years tells us that children's reading lives are more layered than that. The child who reads a class-set picture book in the afternoon often listens to an audiobook on the way to school. The child who does the Yoto first thing often asks for a bedtime book second. A Yoto is useful in the moments when a book is not practical. Both have their place.
Daily Adventure's bedtime mode is one of those moments. Not every parent can sit at the end of a bed reading Goodnight Moon every night. Some parents work late, or are settling other children elsewhere in the house. A well-narrated Aesop at bedtime is not the same as a parent reading, and we would not pretend otherwise. It is better than nothing by a long way.
If your school has a Yoto we have donated, it already runs bedtime mode. Families using their own Yotos at home can try it at dailyadventure.io.
More there: Bedtime stories are here