For the years after the cards
Still counting cards, credits and monthly picks?
When the library opens, one price covers the whole thing: full-cast audio dramas built for ages 8 to 12, each classic at her level now with the full book on the next rung. All playing on the phones, tablets and speakers your family already owns.
Treasure Island, Chapter 1, at the 8–10 rung. One narrator, 10:27, ages 8–10. The old sea-dog takes a room at the Admiral Benbow, and the story starts moving. This is her level now: the same classic, told at the age she is.
The same chapter, the full book. Treasure Island, Chapter 1, unabridged, 12:35. The top rung of the same ladder: Stevenson's words at full size, the same sea-dog, nothing left out. When she's ready for the whole book, it's the next rung up, not a different purchase somewhere else.
Joseph, Episode 1: The Coat and the Pit. Full cast, 17:03, from Genesis 37. The brothers in the field, the dream, the coat, the pit. This is what audio built for ages 8 to 12 sounds like: real stakes, full cast, and nobody stopping the story to explain the lesson.
Founding families pay $79 for the first year, then $99 a year, when the library opens. Renewal price stated up front. 14-day trial when the library opens, with the price, renewal date and cancel path shown before you sign up.
The meter
The little cards and the hand-painted figures were a fine start for a four-year-old. Then the counting started.
A Tonies figure priced by the minute, rationed to birthdays and holidays. A Yoto Club credit you can't quite see anymore, and the monthly pick expires if you forget to spend it. When your eldest gets to eight or nine, you may have heard the verdict already: the stories are too young for her. Believe her. Tonies' own catalog filter stops at Age 7–8.
Keep the player. It still does the bedtime job, and the cards and the figures stay with the younger child. What the older one needs at nine, ten, twelve is stories with real stakes and full casts, with room to grow inside them. That's what Heartwood is.
The offer, plainly
One price. Nothing to count.
When the library opens, one price covers everything inside: both shelves, every series, every rung, the full-cast dramas and the unabridged books. She presses play on whatever she wants, for as long as she wants.
If you've kept a mental ledger for years, that's the whole difference. There's nothing to count because there's nothing to ration.
What one price holds
Two shelves, both labeled, every title carrying its age band.
The classics shelf: the ladder for growing readers. Treasure Island, chapter 1, voiced at the 8–10 rung, one narrator, the sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow, with the unabridged edition as the top rung of the same ladder. Both rungs are playable at the top of this page. Every rung is labeled, so you always know which edition she's hearing.
The faith shelf: original series, heroic adventures, and a full-cast Bible drama. Joseph, season one, six voiced episodes, from Genesis 37. The shelf is labeled for what it is, and the classics shelf is open to any family.
All of it plays on the phones, tablets and speakers a family owns. No player to buy, no cards. Nothing tied to one box, so a collection can't go silent when a box fails.
What the older child gets
The cards carried the little years. What the eldest needs now is stories with more in them, and room to grow inside them.
- Full-cast drama built for ages 8–12. Real characters, real stakes, nobody explaining it afterward.
- Original worlds that keep coming. She stays inside one for hours, and the next episode is already there.
- The climb inside a story she already loves. Her level now, the full book on the next rung. She grows inside the story instead of out of it.
When the library opens
$79 your first year
Then $99 a year. The renewal price is on the same screen as the signup, and you can cancel any time. Available when the library opens, for new members by December 31.
$99 a year
$8.25 a month. One price, the whole library, both shelves, every rung.
$9.99 a month
Month to month, the same library. No plan levels, no credits.
14 days free. The price, the renewal date, and how to cancel are shown before you sign up.
Hear the full cast and the younger rungs
Both rungs of Treasure Island chapter 1 are up top. On the samples page, hear the full cast in Joseph, Episode 1 (17:03, ages 8–12), and three more samples running down to age 3, so the younger child's cards have company in the car. Six voiced samples are live right now, oldest first.
Classics shelf · Retelling
Treasure Island, Chapter 1 (Ages 8-10 retelling)
Questions from card-counting parents
We already own the device. Is this a replacement?
Keep it. The Yoto or the Toniebox still handles bedtime, and the cards and figures stay with the younger child. Heartwood is what the older one listens to once the cards are behind her: longer stories, bigger casts, on the devices your family already owns.
Is this another subscription that changes on me?
One price, nothing inside it to keep track of. No credits, no tokens, no plan levels. When the library opens, the 14-day trial is free, and the price, the renewal date and the cancel path are on the screen before you sign up.
The free apps and the library patchwork are enough. Why pay?
A patchwork gives you pieces from different places. One price holds ongoing full-cast series, the Bible drama, and each classic at her level now and the full book later, in one place, with nothing in it expiring.
House-made stories are usually filler. How do I know these aren't?
Play the 17-minute Joseph scene on this page, or Treasure Island chapter 1 at either rung, and judge them the way you judge any drama: by ear.
Yoto cards are fine value. Are you saying they're not?
They can be, especially for a six-year-old. What the same child wants at nine is different: full-cast stories at 8-to-12 size, one price, the whole library.
A phone in the child's hands?
It plays on the phones, tablets and speakers your family already owns. Put it on the speaker in her room, the tablet on the kitchen counter, or your phone in the car. No player to buy, no cards to lose.
Who makes the voices?
We use human and AI collaboration to produce truly compelling stories encompassing the human emotion and impact.
Hear it before anyone pays anything
When the library opens, one price covers the entire collection: $99 a year ($8.25 a month) or $9.99 a month. Founding families pay $79 for the first year, then $99 a year, with the renewal price stated right up front. The founding price is there when the library opens, for new members by December 31.
Until then, the library is playing right now. Six samples, oldest first, from Treasure Island unabridged and a full-cast Bible drama down to a story for a three-year-old. Press play and judge them by ear.
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