See the situation
A familiar problem gives the child something concrete to consider.
Needs Help! series · Ages 1-5 with guidance
Your child does more than hear the story. Your child helps decide what happens next.
Each story presents six practical, imaginative, and wonderfully silly possibilities. Children choose what the character might do, explain why, and discover how different choices can lead to different results.
Start here · Book 1
The first Needs Help! book
Start with Johnny Needs Help!
Johnny introduces the series through everyday decisions about clothes, food, activities, and what someone truly needs. Young readers choose from practical, imaginative, and silly possibilities, then explain their thinking.
- Explore every idea
- Six choices on each decision page
- Practical thinking mixed with humor
- Every choice opens a conversation
Amazon Bestseller
Chloe Needs Help! brings the choices to Paris.
Chloe encounters ordinary childhood moments involving family, food, school, public behavior, and responsibility. Young readers decide what she might do, then tell the grown-up why.
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How it works
Help a character. Open a conversation.
Because the problem belongs to a character, children can explore ideas without feeling tested. Their choices give adults a natural way to ask questions, listen, and help them think through what might happen next.
Choose a possibility
Six choices make participation easy, surprising, and fun.
Talk about why
One simple question builds vocabulary, reasoning, prediction, and empathy.
Explore every idea before deciding what makes sense.
A funny answer creates connection and bonding. A wrong answer creates discovery. The child can do it their own way while the grown-up guides the conversation.
Meet the children
Different families. Different places. The same invitation to think.
Johnny Needs Help!
Series starterChoose clothes, food, activities, and responses as Johnny moves through an eventful day.
Jenny Needs Help!
Help Jenny with routines, family moments, winter weather, and everyday disagreements.
Siena Needs Help!
Explore clothing, sports, food, and family choices with Siena and her two moms.
Mariah Needs Help!
Help Mariah pack, say goodbye, travel, and settle into a new home.
Mateo Needs Help!
Join Mateo in Mexico as he prepares to welcome and help care for a new baby sister.
Chloe Needs Help!
Amazon BestsellerFollow Chloe through Paris as family, school, food, and public moments invite six possibilities.
Buy Chloe on AmazonSofia Needs Help!
Help baby Sofia and her grooming-shop family care for themselves, their home, and their dogs.
Todd Needs Help!
Support a legally blind sixth grader as he handles school, color, teasing, and a changing friendship.
The child is the author of the conversation.
Ask which choice the child wants, then ask one more question: “Why?”