Weekly · No. 014
Past Bedtime
Read with your kid tonight
A reading club for dads & their kids

Just one more chapter.

The right book for your kid's age, every week — and the two-minute tricks that make the lamp worth leaving on.

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The case for one more chapter

Ten minutes a night with the lamp on is the whole game. You don't have to be a reader to raise one — you just have to show up after dark.

How it works

Three things, that's it
01

Picks by age

Every Chapter hands you books matched to your kid — anywhere from 0 to 12 — so you're never stuck reading a board book to a fourth grader, or a chapter book to a toddler who's already asleep.

02

The two-minute prep

Three questions to ask, one thing to try tonight, and why the book lands. Skim it on your phone in the hallway and you walk in ready.

03

Other dads, same night

Inside The Den, a room of dads reading the same picks — swapping the wins, the bombs, and the "he asked me a question I couldn't answer" moments.

This week's Chapter

No. 014
Middle · 8–12
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
Reviewed for the dads

A robot, an island, and a kid who suddenly cares about everything.

Roz wakes up alone on a wild island and has to work out how to belong. Short chapters, a big quiet heart, and the rare book that gets an eight-year-old asking real questions about kindness without ever feeling a lesson coming.

"If you were Roz, what's the first thing you'd try to learn?"
Tonight's bedtime question

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No curriculum, no homework, no guilt. A book, a kid, and the ten minutes they'll actually remember.

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