Claude's Fables
Claude's Fables turns a real thing a child is facing — won't share, scared of the dark, told a fib they won't own up to — into a short interactive fable where the child is the hero and makes the moral choice themselves.
Core trick
A branching story graph where the child's tap choices determine the consequence, narrated by voice, with a safety-check agent reviewing each story before playback.
Description
Claude's Fables turns a real thing a child is facing — won't share, scared of the dark, told a fib they won't own up to — into a short interactive fable where the child is the hero and makes the moral choice themselves. The lesson lands through the consequence of their own choice, never a narrator lecturing, and every story ends by handing the parent one line to talk about together. It's voice-narrated and tap-first, so even a child who can't read yet can play, and a built-in safety guardian checks every story before it reaches a kid.
README excerpt
# Claude's Fables
**A child who can't type or read designs the outcome of their own bedtime fable — and the lesson lands through their own hands.**
🌙 **Live:** https://claudes-fables.vercel.app
A parent names a real thing their child is facing tonight ("she won't share", "he's scared of the dark"). The app weaves a short, illustrated, voice‑narrated fable where **the child is the hero** and **makes the moral choice themselves**. The lesson is never lectured — it lands through the consequence of the child's own choice. It ends by handing the grown‑up one line to talk about together.
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<img src="docs/screens/01-ask.png" width="190" alt="Grown-up's 10 seconds" />
<img src="docs/screens/02-scene.png" width="190" alt="A narrated scene" />
<img src="docs/screens/03-fork.png" width="190" alt="The fork — two equal choices" />
<img src="docs/screens/04-parent-bridge.png" width="190" alt="The parent bridge" />
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## The problem & who it's for
Bedtime "lesson" apps either lecture the child or turn morality into points and stars. A 4‑year‑old can't read the chapter book that would do this well, and a tired parent has about ten seconds. **Claude's Fables** is for that parent and that child: in ten seconds the grown‑up names what's on the child's heart; then the child — a non‑reader, audio‑first — becomes the hero and *authors the ending* with a single tap. The meaning is experienced, not told, and the parent gets one warm question to keep the conversation