Fantasy · ages 6–8
The Whispering Woods
A tiny golden star, a friendly owl and a path that splits three ways.
Reading age 7. 2 short chapters, 1 choice and 3 endings. About 3 minutes for a child reading on their own.
FREE INTERACTIVE STORIES · AGES 5–11
Free interactive stories for kids
Short illustrated stories where your child decides what happens next. Read chapter 1 together, choose a path and see where it leads. Free to read, with no sign-up, and nothing your child chooses is saved.
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Christmas · ages 5–7
The Missing Christmas Star
The star for the village tree has gone, and a little robin knows where.
Reading age 6. 3 short chapters, 3 choices and 3 endings. About 7 minutes for a child reading on their own.
More stories are on the way, starting with dinosaurs, space, dragons and pirates.
How to read an interactive story with your child
An interactive story stops at an important moment and asks the reader what should happen next. Gamebooks have worked this way for decades. On these pages the choice is a button, and the chapter it leads to appears straight away, below the one you have just read.
Read the first chapter aloud, or take turns: you read a page, your child reads the next. When you reach the choice, stop. Read the options slowly and ask your child which one they want, and why. Some children answer at once; others want to talk it through. Both are good. There is no wrong choice, and you can always go back.
After the ending, go back and choose again. Comparing two endings is one of the easiest ways to talk about how stories work: one decision changes what happens next, and the characters feel different because of it. Children who have read every path often want to invent one more, which is a natural moment to pick up a pencil.
Choosing gives a child a reason to read the next page, because it is their page now. That sense of ownership is what reading for pleasure is built on. Talking about the choice is also practice in prediction, which the National Curriculum asks for from Year 1, quoted below.
Every story here was written by the Litsee team, with a reading age, a word count and questions to ask. They are short on purpose: one sitting, one choice or three, and a proper ending. Nothing on these pages is made up as you read, and no AI runs here.
Where choosing fits in the curriculum
Stopping to choose what happens next is prediction, which the National Curriculum in England asks for in every primary year:
“predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far”
Years 1 and 2, Reading – comprehension (statutory)
“predicting what might happen from details stated and implied”
Years 3 to 6, Reading – comprehension (statutory)