Books for wonderfully curious minds

Big stories begin with a little wonder.

Booklebee Tales invites children to draw, dream, build, and tell the stories only they can imagine.

Meet the imagination books Visit The Booklebee Podcast

Booklebee wearing round glasses and flying above an open book in a delicate watercolor illustration

Every idea is a doorway.

Our favorite question

What would you create if no one told you what to make?

Books for big imaginations

The child is the author.

Each Booklebee book begins with a spark, then leaves room for kids to invent the places, creatures, and possibilities that come next.

A fine-line watercolor of a living world growing across the pages of an open atlas

Booklebee creative book 01

Create Your Own World Inside a Living Atlas

Map a world that changes and grows—its lands, legends, people, creatures, and wonderfully strange places.

In the works

A fine-line watercolor of a whimsical theme park rising from an open book

Booklebee creative book 02

Build a Theme Park No One Has Ever Seen

Invent the lands, rides, characters, treats, and surprising little details guests will never forget.

In the works

A fine-line watercolor of an original fox-and-bird creature with clues from its habitat

Booklebee creative book 03

Invent a Creature and Its Wild Home

Dream up a never-before-seen creature, then discover what it eats, where it sleeps, and how it survives.

In the works

A fine-line watercolor museum shelf holding a bottled cloud, tiny moon, flower clock, and floating teacup

Booklebee creative book 04

Open a Museum of Impossible Things

Curate a collection of objects that could never exist—then write the curious story behind each one.

In the works

A fine-line watercolor of a secret treehouse with a bridge, lookout, ladder, and pulley basket

Booklebee creative book 05

Design a Secret Treehouse Society

Create the hidden headquarters, clever inventions, secret rules, and missions of your very own club.

In the works

A place for every kind of idea

No right answers. No perfect pictures.

Just a pencil, a page, and permission to follow a thought wherever it goes.

Booklebee, a watercolor bee wearing glasses and holding an open book

The Booklebee Podcast

Where children’s imaginations come to life.

Listen as children’s original stories and Booklebee adventures are shared aloud—for car rides, quiet afternoons, and bedtime.

Stories created by young storytellers
Original Booklebee adventures
Gentle questions that keep imaginations buzzing

Have a story of your own? The Booklebee Story Studio is just below.

Booklebee Story Studio

Have a story of your own?

Children can build an original story with Booklebee, then ask a grown-up to submit it for a chance to be shared on The Booklebee Podcast.

Create in Story Studio
Grown-up approves
Submit for the podcast

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Why Booklebee?

Because children already have worlds inside them.

Booklebee Tales is here to help those worlds find their way onto paper—and into stories worth sharing.

We make creative books and listening adventures that give children a beginning without deciding the ending for them.

Imagine freely

Create bravely

Tell your story

Get to know our founder

Meet the heart behind Booklebee.

Ayla Gilmore

Ayla is a certified teacher with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s degree in educational technology. Booklebee Tales grew from her lifelong love of creativity, her love for children, and her belief that kids do their best imagining when they are given room to wonder.

By bringing education and creativity together, Ayla hopes to help children invent worlds, characters, stories, and ideas that are entirely their own.

When she isn’t dreaming up something new for Booklebee, Ayla can usually be found painting, making something, or spending time with her husband, their two children, and one very fuzzy dog. She can’t wait to see what young creators make next.