3 General Knowledge story ideas, each one a book your child stars in: The questions children actually ask, answered in a story instead of a fact sheet. Pick one, add a few details, and the illustrated book starts right away.
Every story is painted in a soft, hand-drawn watercolour look, with your child in a school uniform working the problem out.
The teacher puts out a jar for questions nobody can answer in class. Your child drops in "why is the sea salty when the rain is not", and spends a week finding out that the answer starts with rocks, not water.
Lesson: A good question is worth carrying around
With no working clock in the courtyard, Your child pushes a stick into the ground and marks where its shadow falls each hour. By evening there is a clock made of chalk marks, accurate enough to call everyone in for dinner.
Lesson: The world tells the time if you watch it
Someone claims a crow lives a hundred years. Your child cannot find the answer in any book at home, so writes to the town library, and the reply that arrives two weeks later is the first letter ever addressed to Your child.
Lesson: Asking someone who knows is not cheating