MirthTale for kindergartens and classrooms
One box, one shelf, and a class library the children wrote themselves.
Circle-time stories
A group invents one story together. Print it once for the classroom shelf and, if you like, once per child at their own age.
A library that grows
Every book goes on the shelf. By spring, the class has a library of forty books about the class hamster, and every one of them gets re-read.
Early literacy on paper
Page-turning, cover-to-back reading, and word-pointing on books children care about, without a screen in the room.
How classrooms use it
Educators in Berlin have helped us shape MirthTale since the first prototype. Three patterns keep coming up.
Monday story
One child is the author each week. The class reads their book every day. By Friday everyone can recite it.
The take-home copy
Print the class story at each child's age and send it home. Families report it is the first book some children have asked to read at home.
Hard days
A class story about a classmate moving away, or a pet that died, gives children a shared way to talk about it. See books about hard things.
Pilot programme
We are running a small number of classroom pilots in Germany ahead of the first shipment. Pilots receive a device, paper, all fifteen Story Packs, and a direct line to the team. In return we ask for honest notes.
- Kindergartens and primary years 1 to 3
- Groups of up to 25 children
- A named educator as the point of contact
Research partners
If you study early literacy, shared reading, or language development and would like to use MirthTale in your work, we would like to hear from you. We can share our writing rules, our source list, and anonymised usage patterns from pilots, subject to consent and ethics approval. Choose "Research and education" on the contact form.