Series · Netflix · 2016
Pass it on
Ask the Storybots
56Watch it awake.
Curiosity with a job to do. Good for the little ones, in a short sitting.
The review
A child asks why the sky is blue, or where the water goes, and the Storybots treat the question as a job. That is the right use of a screen for a small person: not a trance, a look at how the world is put together. The songs are sticky. The visits are short. Stop before the queue becomes the babysitter.
Watch one question, then answer the child's next question yourself, even if you have to look it up together in a book.
Journal
Keep Ask the Storybots in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Inbestigators
63 instead of 56
The Inbestigators is still a kids show, and it scores 63 instead of 56. What you gain is republic: A school is a small republic: rules, property, and the kid who was left out.
The eight
- 7Industry
They go find out how a thing works. The answer is the episode.
- 4Household
A child's question is treated as worth a trip. No family beyond that.
- 5Piety
Wonder is the point, and it is aimed at the real world.
- 4Courage
They are willing to look foolish on the way to an answer.
- 4Republic
Experts and places exist. The world is bigger than the living room.
- 7Temperance
It does not sneer, and it does not scare.
- 8Truth
A question gets a real answer, not a moral pasted on a fantasy.
- 6Stewardship
It hands a child the habit of asking how.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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