We Make Stories, a story-creation site, owned by the children’s paperback publisher Puffin Books, lets kids ages 6-11 make their own storybooks, comic books, pop-up books, and treasure maps for Pirate Island, Deep Sea World or Outer Space. There’s only one free game, the rest are accessible for a one-time fee of $9.99, but the digital tools are superb and kids can create crazy characters, write captions and add fun stuff to tell their stories. Storytelling tips help spark imaginations: “Something unexpected should happen. It might just be something different. For example – a girl gets a pet as a present. That’s pretty ordinary, but then it turns out that the pet is a baby elephant, an ostrich, maybe a gorilla. There’s no end to the kind of surprise you can come up with!”



