Tot Tellers · reading and stories
Meet Violet
"Want to hear a story?"
Purple potato
Violet is a dreamy storyteller who collects words like treasures. Violet helps kids practice early reading: letters and sounds, new words, and telling a story from beginning to end.
What Violet teaches
Violet helps kids fall in love with stories.
Letters and sounds
Hearing the first sound in a word, like V for Violet.
New words
Collecting fun words and trying them out.
Story order
Beginning, middle and end.
Feelings
Wondering how a character feels, and why.
Tots With Thoughts
Violet's Story Starters
A coloring book
What story is Violet reading?
Violet's coloring book · coming soon
Violet's Story Starters
Color the picture, then finish the story.
- A story starter on every page
- Letter pages from A to Z with Violet
- Bold, easy lines for ages 3 to 6
Big questions from Violet
Ask one at bedtime. See where it goes.
What happens next?
If you wrote a book, who would be in it?
What is your favorite word, and why?
Try it together
The three-picture story
A five-minute activity for grown-ups and kids, with things you already have at home.
Real potato fact: Purple potatoes get their color from the same kind of natural pigment that makes blueberries blue.
- Fold a paper into three boxes.
- Your child draws a beginning, a middle and an end.
- They tell the story out loud while you write their words under each box.