A gift for a day you pick
A year of full-strength stories, arriving on the day you pick.
When your grandchild lives miles away, you want a gift that puts you in the room on the birthday, on Christmas morning, on the day you're missing. Give them twelve months of the whole Heartwood library when it opens. You pick the day, you write the message, and the library opens for them that morning. $99, paid once. Play the scene below right now and send it to the parents, before anyone pays anything.
Treasure Island, Chapter 1. Ages 8 to 10. 10:27, one narrator. The first scene of the classics shelf, playable right now, before anyone pays anything.
The same chapter, two rungs of one ladder. Press play on both and hear the difference.
Treasure Island, Chapter 1, unabridged. 12:35. The full text, word for word. The same sea-dog, the same "Yo-ho-ho," at full size. The top rung of the ladder, playable right now.
One price. One day. Twelve months of stories.
A great gift belongs to a specific morning. The birthday. Christmas. The first morning of a visit. When the library opens, you pick the start date and write your message. On that date, your message reaches your grandchild and the whole library opens for them. The morning you wanted to be part of is the morning it starts.
The parents can hear it first. Every title carries its age band, and both shelves are labeled for what they are. You can play a scene and send it to them today, before a single dollar changes hands.
What a year of Heartwood holds
Two shelves, both labeled, one library.
The classics shelf holds the real books, with the child's level named on every rung. Treasure Island, Chapter 1 plays at the 8-to-10 level, and the same chapter is voiced at the unabridged rung, labeled as the full text. The story stays the story. The child climbs inside it.
The faith shelf says faith on the door. It carries Joseph, season one: six full-cast episodes from Genesis 37. The coat. The dream. The pit. Real characters, real stakes, and the faith driving the plot itself. Around it, the shelf holds gentler things for younger listeners: an original series called The Old Candle, a retelling of Pilgrim's Progress for ages 3 to 6, and the story of the lost sheep for the very little ones.
Every title carries its age band, so the parents always know what's about to play. It all runs on the phones, tablets and speakers the family already owns. No player to buy, no cards.
Play a scene. Send it to the parents. Done.
The whole gift can be judged by ear before anyone pays a cent.
Start with the scenes above: Treasure Island, Chapter 1 at the 8-to-10 level, 10:27, and the same chapter unabridged, 12:35, word for word. Press play, and ten minutes from now you'll know what you'd be giving.
For a younger grandchild, there's Christian and the Heavy Bag (ages 3 to 6, 7:30), All Here (ages 3 to 5, 6:26), and The Old Candle, Part 1: The Ford (ages 6 to 8, 11:18). If faith stories are part of what you want to hand down, play Joseph, Episode 1: The Coat and the Pit. Full cast, from Genesis 37, ages 8 to 12, 17:03. It is labeled faith, and it sounds like what it is.
Pick the one that fits your grandchild and send the link to the parents. Let their ears do the deciding.
The questions you're already asking
Will the parents be fine with it?
That's the one to ask first. Every title comes with its age band, and the two shelves are labeled for what they are: the classics shelf is open to any family, and the faith shelf says faith plainly. Play a sample, send the link, and let them hear it before anyone pays. No surprises for anyone.
I'm not good with apps. Will I be able to do this?
Yes. Your whole job is picking the day and the message. When the library opens, the stories play on the phones, tablets and speakers the family already owns, so everything the gift needs is already in the parents' house.
Will it really start on the day I pick?
You pick the start date, and the message from you arrives on that date. We say it in plain words before you pay, and that's how it happens.
Will the company treat me well?
If you ever need anything, you reach a real person. The gift plan is $99, paid once, no auto-renew. For family memberships, the 14-day trial shows the price, the renewal date and a plain cancel path on the screen before you sign up.
Is a subscription a real present?
This one is twelve months of a whole library: both shelves, every age band, the classics climbing to the unabridged book. One price covers all of it, for every month of the year.
What happens after the twelve months?
The year runs in full. The gift is paid once and never renews. If the family wants to keep going after that, it's their call to make, on their own terms.
When can I actually give this?
The gift plan goes live when the library opens: $99 for twelve months, paid once, and you pick the day. Until then, every sample is playable right now, so the parents can hear exactly what's coming. Pick the scene that fits your grandchild and send it today.
Why Heartwood exists
I'm Brian Bigelow, and Heartwood is made by Avenor Operating Ventures LLC. I built it for my own kids. On Nov 8, my nine-year-old and my six-year-old heard the first chapter of Treasure Island. They asked for the whole book. So that's the library I'm building now: classics built as ladders, starting with Treasure Island (the level that fits now, the full book on the top rung) and full-cast worlds in between.
Brian Bigelow, founder
Be there on the morning, even from far away
The date matters. A birthday. A Christmas morning. The first morning of a visit. You know which one it is.
When the library opens, the gift plan opens with it: $99 for twelve months, paid once, no auto-renew, and you pick the day the stories start. Until then, the scenes are here to play, right now. Pick the one that fits your grandchild, send the link to the parents, and let their ears do the deciding. The morning does the rest.
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Play the samples at heartwoodstory.com/listen
The gift plan, when the library opens: $99 for twelve months, paid once, no auto-renew, start date you pick. Family memberships: $99 a year ($8.25 a month) or $9.99 a month, with founding families at $79 for the first year, then $99 (available when the library opens, for new members by December 31) renewal price stated up front. Memberships include a 14-day trial, with the price, renewal date and cancel path shown before signup.