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CyKid World: Illustrated Stories for Children in Six Languages
Reading tools & contents
What would happen if a forest forgot its song? What if a little star fell out of the sky and needed help finding where it belonged? A child can live inside a question like that for an entire evening. CyKid World, an illustrated story project created by Gabriel Nicolaev — CyGuru and launched in Dubai, gives families a place to follow those questions together.
Meet the friends
CyKid and his younger sister CyLuna travel with CyUni, CyBot and CyDog. Their adventures take them to forests, cities above the clouds and distant worlds. The friends bring different ideas to each mystery. One notices what others overlook. Another asks the question that makes everyone look again. Children can decide for themselves whose approach they would try.
In CyBot and the Kindness Code, for instance, a broken kite sets a problem in motion. A robot eager to help has to work out what help actually looks like. A parent can stop on the page before the friends act and ask, “What would you do if your friend’s kite broke?” The story carries on from whatever answer the child gives.
Choose your first adventure
- The Secret of Vega opens with a glowing star gate and a map made of light. Start here to meet the friends and discover where their first adventure takes them.
- CyLuna and the Lost Little Star is a moonlit story about helping a little light find its place in the sky. Save it for a quiet evening together.
- CyKid and the Secret Paths of the Night begins when a bright new beacon interrupts the forest’s nighttime journeys. Pick it for a child who wonders what moths, bats and foxes do after dark.
Read in six languages
The storybook is available in English, Romanian, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese. Choose the language you use at home, the one a grandparent reads aloud in, or one your child is curious to hear. You can read a familiar scene in a second language and let the illustrations help your child follow the action.
Let your child turn the page
The illustrated stories are designed for children ages four to nine and for the adults reading alongside them. Start with the cover that catches your child’s eye. Read a few pages, pause where they want to look closer, and see what detail they pick out. They may notice an animal near the edge of an illustration while you are still thinking about the plot. Follow their question. The next page can wait.
Open the story shelf together tonight and let your child choose where you go.
