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Future Leaders · ages 9-10Resilience · with Tilly
The Resilience Voyage
30 playful missions to help your child practise bouncing back from mistakes, setbacks and disappointment. Find the five scattered lighthouse stones so the Rainbow Lighthouse can warn the coast about storms again, with Tilly as their guide.
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Your choice: The Resilience Voyage · 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: Find the five scattered lighthouse stones so the Rainbow Lighthouse can warn the coast about storms again.
Your child’s part: Your child rebuilds what the storm knocked down, tries another way when a plan does not work and decides when to ask for help. Each stone they recover lights the lighthouse a little more, so the boats know when it is safe to sail.
Resilience is how we respond when things go wrong. Children practise naming frustration, trying another way and seeing mistakes as part of learning.
Why parents might choose it
- Small mistakes lead to big frustration
- They give up quickly when something is hard
- They find losing games really difficult
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Resilience Voyage
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Find the five scattered lighthouse stones so the Rainbow Lighthouse can warn the coast about storms again.
Mission 1 · Wobbly Rocks
Ages 9-10 · Future Leaders
Shell Time
Juno says: “I'm Juno. She does this. Last time it was forty minutes. I timed it.”Juno
- About 15 to 20 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Self-directed, parent checks in
- Story choice
Your first sight of Tumbleweather Coast: grey rocks, wet weed, a striped lighthouse with no light in it, and a small crowd on the shore watching a turtle cross the Wobbly Rocks.
Tilly is carrying Keeper Maren's logbook, a coil of survey rope and a flask of tea. She is also, you can tell from here, trying very hard to look like someone who has done this before.
The story continues in the mission.
First, a choice: 4 options
- Sit beside the shell and say nothing for a while
- Offer a hand up and get her off the rocks
- Ask her what she needs
- Leave her be and rescue the logbook first
On the printed page: Circle the help you would try first, then fill in the three-person grid.
By the end they have: A named feeling and an invented fifth kind of help.
You will need: Pencil · The private page, or any scrap of paper
- Read all four responses, not just the one you picked. Each kind of help worked one way and cost something another way.
- Think about three people: Tilly, Juno and someone you know (no names needed). After a slip in front of others, which help would each want first?
- Find Tilly's exact feeling. Bad is too vague. Try embarrassed, rattled, gutted, furious, ashamed or frustrated, or a better word of your own.
- Invent a fifth kind of help that is not on the list. Give it a name and say who it would suit.
- In one sentence, explain why the same help can land well with one person and badly with another.
Smaller step if needed: Choose one help for Tilly and a different one for Juno, and say why they differ.
The grown-up’s part: If your child wants to talk, ask about the characters rather than about them. Let them decide whether to bring in an example of their own.
The next time something goes wrong for you, find the exact word for the feeling (rattled, gutted, embarrassed) before you decide what to do about it.
What it practises: Practise naming a feeling precisely after a setback, and working out that the same help does not suit everyone.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Resilience Voyage 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 Tumbleweather Coast. 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.
- Wobbly Rocks · missions 1 to 6
- Try-Again Tide · missions 7 to 12
- Storm Shelter · missions 13 to 18
- Fix-It Workshop · missions 19 to 24
- Rainbow Lighthouse · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Puzzles, Reflection, Craft, Story choices, Memory game.
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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