Wobbling is part of learning.
The We Books are warm, funny picture books about five kids on one block learning the ordinary skills of a good life, each their own way, while a small dog named Churro runs a secret plan in the margins.
The ordinary is the whole point.
We Cook
Five kids are making dinner on the block.
Amara hums. Mateo wobbles. Kenji watches closely. Priya has ideas. Sam notices what everyone else misses.
And Churro has found the snacks.
Six more books are written and waiting their turn. Each one takes a single ordinary skill, patience, letting go, gentle care, fixing what breaks, and lets the kids find their own way through it.
Five kids. One dog. Every book, everybody.
Amara
Steady and sure, the one who hums while everyone else hurries.
Mateo
All momentum and heart, usually wearing a bandage, usually near Churro.
Kenji
Glasses on, notebook out. He sees how things work before anyone asks.
Priya
Ten ideas a minute, and at least one of them is exactly right.
Sam
Bucket hat, full pockets. Sam notices what everyone else misses.
Churro
One flopped ear, one wagging tail, and always a small scheme in the background.
Lessons that fit in one line
- Waiting is part of cooking.
- Letting go is part of tidying.
- Mistakes can become art.
- Gentle is part of caring.
- Places hold stories.
- Fixed is better than new.
Every kid can. Every family belongs. And every book ends together.
From the maker
The We Books were written by Bear Wade, a Telly Award winning documentary filmmaker, brand builder, and dad in St. Louis, Missouri. After 23 years of telling other people's stories, this series is the one he's telling for the kids on his own block.
The books are written for two of the toughest audiences in publishing: kids whose attention wanders, and parents on the two-hundredth read.
Want to be a test-read family?
Book one is finished and looking for its first listeners. If you have a kid between 4 and 8 and twenty minutes at bedtime, we'd love your honest reaction — the giggles, the wiggles, and the parts where attention wandered.