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Star Island · 30 missionsThe Confidence Quest
Future Leaders · ages 9-10Confidence · with Nova
The Confidence Quest
30 playful missions to help your child practise expressing themselves, making choices and trying new things. Relight the five stars over Star Island so the fishing boats can find their way home again, with Nova as their guide.
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Your choice: The Confidence Quest · Future Leaders (ages 9-10) · printable PDF + online adventure
This edition is still being written, illustrated and tested. We only sell an edition once all 30 missions are finished in both formats.
Also part of Choose Any 3 ($74.99) and the Complete Collection ($184.99), each for one age level.
The story
The goal: Relight the five stars over Star Island so the fishing boats can find their way home again.
Your child’s part: Your child makes the choices: their own explorer symbol and name, which idea to share, which new thing to try. Each choice brings a dimmed star back to light, and Nova finds her voice beside them.
Confidence is the quiet sense of "I can have a go." It shows up when a child shares an idea, makes a choice or tries something new, even if their voice wobbles a little.
Why parents might choose it
- Your child has big ideas at home but goes quiet in groups
- You’d love them to make small choices without looking to you first
- They’re starting school, a new club or a new class
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Confidence Quest
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Relight the five stars over Star Island so the fishing boats can find their way home again.
Mission 1 · Brave Beginnings
Ages 9-10 · Future Leaders
Crest and Call Sign
Nova says: “I asked four people what to put on it. That's the result. It's a perfectly nice crest. It just isn't mine.”Nova
- About 15 to 25 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Self-directed, parent checks in
- Drawing
The supply boat bumps the jetty, and Nova is there before the rope is tied. She has a notebook, a pencil behind one ear and the look of someone who has been waiting since lunchtime.
"Paperwork first," she says. "Everyone in the council delegation needs a crest for the observatory roll. Three symbols that actually mean something, plus a call sign. One rule: you design your own, and nobody else gets a vote."
She shows you hers, then winces. It has a palm tree, a fish, a sunset and something that might be a pineapple.
First, a choice: 4 options
- Something I do (a sport, an instrument, a skill)
- Something I care about (a person, a cause, a place)
- Something I'm working on
- A wildcard nobody would guess
On the printed page: Tick where you'll start, then design your crest.
By the end they have: Personal crest and call sign.
You will need: Scrap paper and a pencil · The crest page (or any paper) · Coloured pens or pencils (optional)
- Sketch at least five possible symbols on scrap paper. Make lots of ideas first; choose three later.
- Pick three. Ask yourself, not anyone else: would I still pick this if nobody ever saw it?
- Draw your crest in the shield: three symbols, in a layout you choose (split, stacked or circled).
- Write a one-line key for each symbol, say it out loud instead, or keep one of them private.
- Choose a call sign: a version of your name, a nickname, or something new. Write it on the banner.
- Decide who, if anyone, gets to see the crest first.
Smaller step if needed: Choose one symbol and a call sign today; add the other two symbols later.
The grown-up’s part: Give practical help if asked (a ruler, how to spell a word) but no opinions on symbols. If your child shows you the crest, ask about it rather than judging it.
At dinner or another shared moment, introduce yourself by your call sign and explain one crest symbol, without asking whether anyone likes it first.
What it practises: Practise making personal choices without seeking approval: three crest symbols that mean something to you, and a call sign.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Confidence Quest for ages 9-10. The edition is not yet approved, so wording may change, and the mission’s own illustrations are still to come.
The five-chapter journey
Five places in Star Island. Thirty missions. Five stars to collect.
Six missions in each chapter. Finishing a chapter lights up a new star on the map, on paper and on screen.
- Brave Beginnings · missions 1 to 6
- Voice Valley · missions 7 to 12
- Try-It Mountains · missions 13 to 18
- Kindness Cove · missions 19 to 24
- Shine Summit · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Story choices, Puzzles, Movement, Role-play, Real-world challenge, Drawing.
At ages 9-10 (Future Leaders)
Planning, reflection, social scenarios, goal setting, independent online play. About 15-25 min (a few up to 30) per mission. Independent reading. Grown-up role: self-directed, parent checks in.
What’s included
One adventure, two ways to play.
The printable PDF
- Adventure introduction and character pages
- All five chapters and 30 missions, fully illustrated
- Puzzles to circle, match, draw and colour
- Grown-up guidance and answer notes
- Progress map with stars to colour
- Reward stickers to cut out
- Completion certificate
The online adventure
- The same 30 missions as interactive games
- Tap, drag, reveal and choose instead of writing
- Character reactions and completion animations
- Digital stars, badges and a final certificate
- Carry on where you stopped, on any device
- Works on phones, tablets and computers
- Tap alternatives to every drag-and-drop
Paper and screen
Every activity works both ways.
The same mission plays on paper or on screen with the same answer. This is how each activity type changes between the two formats.
| Activity | In the PDF | Online |
|---|---|---|
| Story choice | Circle an answer | Tap an answer |
| Secret code | Draw the symbols | Tap symbols into a lock |
| Matching | Draw lines | Drag or tap pairs |
| Ordering | Number the pictures | Drag or tap into order |
| Hidden things | Colour what you find | Tap the scene |
| Feelings | Colour a face | Tap a face |
| Drawing | Draw in the frame | Draw on screen |
| Real world | Tick the box | Tap “We tried it!” |
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