Books for curious young minds
Share a woodland adventure with Little Wren & Friends, or explore real machines and nature through hands-on books to color, solve, and discover.
Three series · 12 books
Woodland stories for ages 2–5 to share with a grown-up, and activity books for ages 4–6 to explore machines and nature. See each book for its recommended age.
Tinkerwren series
Small adventures. Good friends. Woodland stories for ages 2–5 to share with a grown-up. See each book for its recommended age.
Little Wren & Friends
Wren has a plan: she will hide, and Mouse will find her. But one little tail keeps giving her away. A playful woodland game of hide-and-seek, with a little hint between friends.
Digital download only. Requires a reader that supports fixed-layout EPUB 3. Illustrated spreads are arranged for landscape viewing. No printed book or shipping included.
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Little Wren & Friends
Flip, flap! Mouse is ready for a picnic, but the blanket will not stay put. Wren is ready to help. Join the two friends for a flapping-blanket muddle and a warm patch of sun.
Digital download only. Requires a reader that supports fixed-layout EPUB 3. Tablet landscape viewing is recommended. No audio narration or printed book is included; reader support varies.
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Little Wren & Friends
Can two small friends reach the stump without a squeak? Wren has a very quiet plan. But dry leaves, loose stones and a rattling seedpod have other ideas.
Little Wren & Friends
Four friends. One little table. A mighty squeeze! Wren, Mouse, Rabbit and Squirrel gather for a woodland Thanksgiving meal—but where will everyone fit?
Digital download only: screen-reading PDF, fixed-layout EPUB 3 and reading guides. No physical book or device is included. EPUB reader compatibility varies; PDF alternative included.
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Follow real machines and everyday making journeys through coloring, puzzles, and hands-on discovery.
Machine Mission Lab
Coloring, Puzzles & Activities for Ages 4–6
Thirteen real working machines do real jobs across construction, farming, transportation, and rescue. Kids color, count, match, solve mazes, and reason about machines and their jobs with Tinkerwren along for the ride.
Machine Mission Lab
A First Look at How Everyday Things Are Made
Eight everyday making journeys help children follow real processes from starting materials to familiar objects through picture-led coloring, sequencing, matching, counting, and observation.
Machine Mission Lab
Coloring, Puzzles & Build-a-Road Activities
Help a paper crew turn an unfinished route into a road. Eight machine missions bring digging, hauling, grading, paving, and finishing to life through coloring, picture lessons, puzzles, and drawing.
Machine Mission Lab
Tractors, Harvesters & Big Farm Jobs
Follow planting, watering, harvesting, and handling through eight illustrated farm-machine missions. Children explore what each machine does with coloring, picture puzzles, and matching activities.
Machine Mission Lab
Coloring, Puzzles & Activities for Ages 4–6
Explore belts, screens, magnets, sensors, balers, washers, and more through read-aloud machine explanations, coloring, tracing, counting, sequencing, picture puzzles, and drawing.
Tinkerwren series
Look closer at national parks and nearby nature through picture-led activities, puzzles, and creative exploration.
Tinkerwren Explorers
Coloring, Puzzles & Nature Activities
Eight real parks introduce eight memorable nature ideas. Short read-aloud explanations and clear pictures lead into coloring, visual puzzles, and drawing.
Tinkerwren Explorers
Coloring, Puzzles & Nature Activities
Explore giant trees, rain forests, rock windows, desert plants, underground passages, shifting dunes, and lava landscapes with Tinkerwren. Young explorers look closely, try picture activities, and make something of their own.
Tinkerwren Explorers
Coloring, Puzzles & Outdoor Discovery Activities
Nature is closer than it looks. Eight picture-led missions invite children to explore trees, flowers, birds, bugs, soil, ponds, rain, and nighttime nature through coloring, puzzles, and creating; every activity also works indoors from the page.
Meet Tinkerwren
Tinkerwren is the wren who turns up throughout our books and activity sheets. Curious, easily distracted by machinery, and always watching from somewhere nearby.
Across the activity-book series, Tinkerwren follows each journey with an expressive look, step, or surprise. Inside the books the character appears in plain black and white, because a bird you can color is a character you can make your own.
Free to print
Printable sheets to use alongside the books or entirely on their own. No account, no email address, nothing to join.
Why Tinkerwren
We make children's books rooted in the things that are actually out there: working machines, busy places, how everyday things get made, and the details worth stopping to notice.
Our books pair real-world subjects with coloring, puzzles, observation, and simple explanations—giving kids a screen-free way to explore and giving grown-ups something useful to explore alongside them.
Tinkerwren is built around a simple idea: learning sticks better when curiosity gets to do some of the work.
Machines, places, processes, and the everyday systems children already wonder about.
Coloring, puzzles, noticing, matching, and problem solving—not passive page filling.
Thoughtful enough for parents, grandparents, and educators to enjoy alongside a child.
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