About Story Bound
Story Bound helps a child’s story take shape, be heard, and become a book that can be shared, told, and retold.
We begin with ages 6–8 because this is a remarkable window. Children are full of ideas, but their ideas often move faster than their handwriting.
Story Bound gives them more than one way into the work: talking, drawing, writing, movement, and guided bookmaking.
What makes Story Bound different
School literacy programs rightly focus on foundations: reading, phonics, handwriting, spelling, sentence structure, and comprehension. At home, parents may see the spark, but not have the time, creative team, or production path to carry an idea all the way into a finished book.
Story Bound creates the conditions for a story to move from a child’s mind into the world. The work is structured, but the goal is not to teach a formula for creative writing. The goal is to help the child’s story find its form.
A small group, a clear curriculum, a creative team, illustrator guidance, and a finished book all work in service of that goal.
The child brings the story.
The grown-ups give it structure.
The reading lets the child be heard.
The book lets the story be shared, told, and retold.
What Story Bound makes possible
Story Bound gives an idea enough time, care, and shape to become something real.
The story stays with the child. The grown-ups protect the thread.
The autograph matters. It turns penmanship into expression, ownership, and authorship.
Beginning at Poets House
Story Bound begins this August at Poets House in Battery Park City, a place built around words, books, and the life of language.
Future Story Bound programs may include new dates, school-holiday workshops, neighborhood readings, and special bookmaking projects.