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Hidden Wonders · Little Clue Tales

A Forest Full of Little Clues

Join Benny among leafy tree rooms, little bridges and a winding stream. Find picture clues, visit a woodland picnic and follow a sunlit trail toward a story of your own.

For shared looking, ages 2–8. Start with a larger friend or a bright color; smaller clues suit older children or adult help. Difficulty labels are suggestions, not a child assessment.

Look together

Every corner has a story.

Benny the brown bear cub, wearing a cap and red neck scarf, appears with Squirrel, Hedgehog, Frog, Blue Jay and Cardinal throughout a detailed forest of tree rooms, streams, bridges, picture journals and hidden objects.

A few things to notice

Follow a clue. Or your curiosity.

Choose any three if you like. Each clue shows one particular place in the picture—even when a friend appears more than once.

What catches your eye?

Start anywhere. You can choose a clue, name something you notice, or simply look together.

No timer. No score. Just things to notice together.

Discovery marks stay only while this picture page is open. Read the picture description or choose written clues for another way to join in.

The picture in words.

Benny the brown bear cub, wearing a cap and red neck scarf, appears with Squirrel, Hedgehog, Frog, Blue Jay and Cardinal throughout a detailed forest of tree rooms, streams, bridges, picture journals and hidden objects.

Use the written clues and answer descriptions in the player, or invite someone to describe a part of the picture with you. These words support shared exploration; the picture contains many more small visual details.

Make it your kind of together time

For parents & teachers.

At home

Let your child choose where the search begins. A color, a funny object or a friend can be enough for a satisfying first discovery.

Settle in

Look at the whole forest, then zoom into the tree room, the lower-left trail or the picnic. Choose any three clues and stop whenever you like.

A little support

Offer two places to choose between or find one clue together. Accept pointing, signing, drawing and home-language answers. The same friends appear more than once; these clues describe particular pictured moments.

Leave room for their ideas

What can you see, and what do you wonder?

Start with a visible detail such as a feather or pawprint. A guess about who left it can come afterward.

How could you help me find it without pointing?

Try a color, shape or place word: beside the book, under the roots or near the water.

Where might the sunlit trail lead next?

Look beneath the lower-left root arch. Let a pawprint, feather or acorn begin a gentle invented adventure.

A gentle finish

Choose one discovery to draw or tell someone about. There is no need to find everything.

In the classroom

About 15 minutes · Adapt to your group

Practice close observation, positional language and taking turns to describe a visible detail.

Bring along

  • A screen with the picture or a printed panorama
  • Optional picture clues
  • Paper and pencils

  1. Look together

    Let children notice the tree rooms, bridges and water. Invite one observation each without requiring a complete sentence.

  2. Find three things

    Choose a friend, an object and a color clue. Search together or let partners choose different clues.

  3. Describe one without pointing

    Use a color, shape and place word to help a partner find one pictured example. Offer gestures or a drawing as another way to give the clue.

  4. Invent what happens next

    Look at the sunlit trail beneath the lower-left roots. Use one visible clue to tell or draw Benny’s next gentle discovery.

Make room for everyone

Let a child choose the clue while a partner operates the zoom. Use larger figures first, offer high-detail close-ups as optional challenges, and welcome spoken, signed, drawn or home-language responses.

Reflect together

Which detail helped you find your clue, and which detail would you like to explore next?

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Another little adventure?