Beautifully crafted picture books — the great classics, retold as train adventures for little kids, shaped by the researcher behind Sesame Street's curriculum. Print them. Read them on a screen. Color them in. All free.
Every release comes with everything below — download it all, keep it forever.
A classic work of literature, lovingly retold for ages 2–5, written at a level a 4-year-old can grow into.
Beautiful on regular paper — no special printer, no special anything.
Sometimes the screen is happening anyway. It might as well be Homer.
Pulled straight from the book's art, designed to carry the learning off the page.
New books released regularly. Your bookshelf (and your printer) will be busy.
An Oddy the Odysseus Train Adventure — inspired by Homer's Odyssey
A little train with a big beard just wants to get home. Wrong turns, sweet-singing birds who don't actually know the way, one very patient owl.
It's the Odyssey — the real story structure, the real ideas about perseverance, cleverness, and home — sized for the smallest readers in the house.
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The classics lasted three thousand years for a reason: they're the best stories anyone ever told. We retell them at a level young children can actually read and love — then we go one step further.
Every Story Trains book is shaped by Beth Richman — Harvard-trained, and one of the researchers behind the work that made Sesame Street into Sesame Street. For two decades she's helped the shows you already trust — Sesame, the Fred Rogers folks, PBS — keep the fun stuff and the good stuff as the same stuff.
Your kid gets a hero, a journey, and a giggle. They'll never once notice they're learning anything.
We're 3DadsLabs Studios. Between us we've spent decades making television and movies (and collecting the occasional shiny award). Then we had kids, looked hard at what was on their screens and shelves, and decided to build the thing we couldn't find: stories with real craft and real substance.
Three dads with good instincts is a nice start. But we wanted to be sure. That's why every book goes through Beth before it goes to you.
Takes ten seconds. That's the whole setup.
Each release lands in your inbox — printable book, ebook, coloring pages, activities.
Print it, snuggle up, or hand over the tablet guilt-free. It's a classic either way.
Really. The books, the ebooks, the coloring pages, the activities — free. We also make hardcovers, toys, and other nice things you can buy if you want to. That's how we keep the club free. No pressure, ever.
Regularly — we're aiming for often, and we'd rather ship a great book than hit an arbitrary date. Members hear the moment each one is ready.
Written for ages 2–5, at a reading level a 4-year-old can grow into. Little ones listen; bigger ones start reading it back to you.
We're TV people — we're not going to pretend screens don't exist. Our ebooks are made so that if the screen is happening, something worthwhile is on it. And every book prints beautifully when you want paper.
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