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"These are the things I know about imagination, children, voice, and what happens when you stop correcting."

Thoughts and Evidence

Play Is How Children Make Sense of Their World

Play Is How Children Make Sense of Their Worldby: Kate

UNICEF confirms what children already know. Play is not a reward. It is how children build confidence, process emotions, and discover what they are capable of.

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Play Is How Children Make Sense of Their World

Give Them Back the Time

Give Them Back the Timeby: Kate

We tell children their voice matters. Then we fill every hour of their day with our agenda and wonder why they have nothing left to say.

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Give Them Back the Time

What Play Actually Does, and Why Its Absence Is a Wellbeing Crisis

What Play Actually Does, and Why Its Absence Is a Wellbeing Crisisby: Kate

Play is one of the first languages through which children tell their stories. We have been taking it away without asking what we are taking with it.

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What Play Actually Does, and Why Its Absence Is a Wellbeing Crisis

We Cut Play. Then We Wondered Why Children Struggled.

We Cut Play. Then We Wondered Why Children Struggled.by: Kate

Between 1995 and 2019 breaktime in UK primary schools was cut by 45 minutes every week. What was cut with it.

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We Cut Play. Then We Wondered Why Children Struggled.

The Gabriel StoryQuest Collection

Step into Gabriel’s world with the complete collection of adventures, creativity, and imagination.

This collection brings together the full Gabriel experience:

The Adventures of Gabriel

The story that started it all.

The Shadow of Zuff

A journey through mystery, courage, and discovery.

The Thunderbolt of Hindustan

An adventure across new worlds, challenges, and possibilities.

MyStoryQuest Adventure Journal

A space for children to create, imagine, and write their own adventures.

STORYQUEST

StoryQuest gives children the freedom to imagine, speak and be heard without being corrected, guided or rushed. It begins with a story. But what families create together is something much bigger: connection.

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