NumbleStumble - About Happiness

NumbleStumble - About Happiness.

Some children ask a question and simply cannot let it go. NumbleStumble wants to know what happiness is. So he asks. He listens, he turns the answer over, and then he asks again. He asks his family, he asks his friends, and he asks people he has never met before, because as far as Numble is concerned there is no such thing as a random question.

What is happiness to you?

A read-aloud picture book about curiosity, asking enormous questions, and actually listening to the answers.

About the Stumble Family

Ready to stumble onto something unexpected?

Every Stumble book opens with a Stumble who is wondering about something in life and has no idea what the answer is.

Feelings included: being left out, making a mess of things, feeling lonely, being proud, making friends, being a bit too much. They poke at it, they turn it over, and make you wonder too. It runs in the family.

Shall we find out together, they say. That is the invitation: first the story, then the questions. Some to think about, some to ask each other, and one wonderponder. Answer one, answer all, skip the lot, or ask a better one.

The real invitation is to find out something about each other that neither of you went looking for.

Thirteen Stumbles. Each one moves through the world in their own way, and each one has a story. Just like you. Just like whoever is holding the book.

Ages 5 to 8, read out loud, together. Start with any of them.

Kind. Curious. Real. Play first, always.

First we stumble. Then we bloom.