✨ Lulu Lilly Stories

For teachers & librarians 🍎

Everything here is free, needs no login, and has no ads. Built for 1st, 2nd & 3rd grade readers (ages 6–9).

💗 Heartache Hero: a free SEL game

Seven kindness scenarios per round, drawn from a large bank so no two rounds match. Works on a smartboard for a whole-class warm-up or on tablets in a station. No accounts, no data collection, no ads.

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🎨 Book crafts

The craft from the end of each book, written up with supply lists and steps. Ocean in a Bottle doubles as a density lesson and a calm-corner tool.

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Discussion questions that work

These fit any book in the series and take about ten minutes after a read-aloud.

  1. 1Lulu notices something nobody else notices. What did she see, and how did she see it?
  2. 2Was Lulu right? Was she also kind? Can you be both at the same time?
  3. 3Pick one illustration. What is happening in it that the words don't tell you?
  4. 4Lulu makes a plan and it goes wrong. What would your plan have been?
  5. 5Who in the story needed help and didn't ask for it?
  6. 6Name one thing you could do tomorrow that Lulu would notice.

Why these work for reluctant readers

Illustration density

The Great Lemonade Strike has 58 black-and-white illustrations across the book — a kid is never more than a page or two from a visual break.

Chapter length

Most chapters are short and fast-moving, so a struggling reader gets a finish-line feeling several times per sitting.

Holiday hooks

Each book hangs on a holiday kids already care about, which does a lot of the motivation work for you.

Titles for your collection

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Discussion questions, the craft instructions, and coloring pages in one PDF. Free for classroom and library use.

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