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The Children of Odin

by Padraic Colum

Thor's hammer, Loki's tricks, and the doom of the gods: the great Norse myths told for kids.

📖 26 stories, complete ⏱ about 15 minutes a night 📅 a story a night finishes it in about 4 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign The Children of Odin as a mission and pick the schedule: every day, school nights, weekends, or one story a week. The app serves the next story each time and keeps the bookmark.

📚 They read it in the app

The full text, 26 stories, on their own device. No separate book to buy or lose.

🎤 They prove it out loud

At the end of a story the app highlights a short passage and your child reads it aloud. Mak listens and checks it against the page.

⚡ The screen time is earned

Pass, and the XP lands. Screen time comes from the book, not the feed.

What's inside

The complete book, split into 26 stories the app serves one at a time.

See all 26 stories
Story 1THE BUILDING OF THE WALL
Story 2IDUNA AND HER APPLES: HOW LOKI PUT THE GODS IN DANGER
Story 3SIF'S GOLDEN HAIR: HOW LOKI WROUGHT MISCHIEF IN ASGARD
Story 4HOW BROCK BROUGHT JUDGMENT ON LOKI
Story 5HEIMDALL AND LITTLE HNOSSA: HOW ALL THINGS CAME TO BE
Story 6THE ALL-FATHER'S FOREBODINGS: HOW HE LEAVES ASGARD
Story 7ODIN GOES TO MIMIR'S WELL: HIS SACRIFICE FOR WISDOM
Story 8ODIN FACES AN EVIL MAN
Story 9ODIN WINS FOR MEN THE MAGIC MEAD
Story 10THOR AND LOKI IN THE GIANTS' CITY
Story 11HOW THOR AND LOKI BEFOOLED THRYM THE GIANT
Story 12AEGIR'S FEAST: HOW THOR TRIUMPHED
Story 13THE DWARF'S HOARD, AND THE CURSE THAT IT BROUGHT
Story 14LOKI THE BETRAYER
Story 15LOKI AGAINST THE AESIR
Story 16THE CHILDREN OF LOKI
Story 17THE SWORD OF THE VOLSUNGS AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
Story 18THE SWORD GRAM AND THE DRAGON FAFNIR
Story 19THE DRAGON'S BLOOD
Story 20THE STORY OF SIGMUND AND SIGNY
Story 21THE STORY OF SIGMUND AND SINFIOTLI
Story 22BRYNHILD IN THE HOUSE OF FLAME
Story 23SIGURD AT THE HOUSE OF THE NIBELUNGS
Story 24HOW BRYNHILD WAS WON FOR GUNNAR
Story 25THE DEATH OF SIGURD
Story 26THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

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Tonight, The Children of Odin can be the mission.

Assign it in about a minute. The first read-aloud usually earns a grin.

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