Hello! I'm Pip.

Explore with Pip

Big questions for curious little minds.

Our big adventure map

Where shall we go?

Start with Animal Compass. How does a living thing know where to go?

Each door opens a site made for curious children. Nothing is locked. A privacy note for parents is on the door, before a child goes in.

A felt map of hills, meadows, water, and a winding path, with Pip in a sage scarf.

Wonder Atlas

What can we see in the night sky?

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Pip on a grassy hill at night, beside a small wooden telescope, under a soft starry sky.

How Do We Know?

No one has brought home a piece of a star. So how do we know?

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Pip sitting on a smooth stone in a sunny clearing, head tilted.

Animal Compass

How does a living thing know where to go?

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Pip the songbird standing in a wide sunny clover meadow, sage scarf on, with one honeybee on a flower nearby.

Try This

A ball is hanging in the air. Tap it. Let it fall.

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Pip at a low wooden table outdoors, beside a leaf, a smooth stone, and a jar of water.

Did You See That?

Look closely. Your brain is busy.

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Pip peering closely at a dewdrop on a leaf.

Could We Live There?

What does a world need? Begin with air.

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Pip in a meadow looking up at a small friendly planet in a pale blue sky.

What's Pulling?

Forces you can't always see.

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Pip watching a red apple fall through the air toward the grass.

Can You Read This?

One stone. Three kinds of writing.

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Pip looking at pale birch bark in warm woodland light.

Signals

How can something over there change what you know here?

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Pip beside a small lantern at dusk, looking toward a far hill with another warm light.

Before Us

Someone wrote this. The ink has lasted.

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Pip at the edge of a shallow sunny creek, looking at smooth stones.

Words Travel

This word has traveled.

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Pip watching two blank paper boats float on a gentle stream.

Long Before

A very long story of Earth.

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A small Pip standing before tall layered hills in cream, mustard, and sage.

Enough Energy

A lamp. A city. A planet. A star.

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Pip in warm sunlight beside leaves and a tiny wooden water wheel.

Maybe

What can you know before something happens?

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Pip where a meadow path splits into two open sunny ways.

Story theater

Watch Pip

Two films. The same story. English or Spanish.

EnglishThe Bee's Dance Map
EspañolEl mapa de baile de la abeja

Watch more on Pip's YouTube. Opens in a new tab.

Pip's Explorer Workbook

Ten pages for ages 4 to 8. Pictures from Pip's walks, a maze, matching, and a page to draw.

Open the workbook

Pip's bookshelf

The Bee's Dance Map with Pip

An Animal Compass story.

Paperback, $14 Kindle, $4.99

The Bee's Dance Map with Pip. Pip the songbird stands on a felt honeycomb while a honeybee flies nearby.

My Map

Stickers from your visits

A sticker appears after you enter a place. It stays on this device only. No account, and nothing is sent away.

For grown-ups

Before they go in

Each door opens a site made for curious children. Nothing is locked. A privacy note for parents is on the door, before a child goes in.

Explore with Pip is only the door. Enter opens the place itself.

A child should be able to wonder without being turned into data. No account. No ads. Nothing about a child is collected here. Stickers stay on this device.

Wonder Atlas was created by a mom for curious children and the adults who sit beside them. Each place keeps a privacy note in that spirit.

Wonder Atlas privacy

Privacy

No sign-in. No profile. No public submissions from children.

My Map stickers stay in this browser. Clearing site data erases them.

The Watch films are YouTube videos. Nothing from YouTube loads until you press Play. Then the player connects to YouTube and Google servers.

The workbook page is free to print.

More about outside sites

Every page loads a script from grok.com. After you press Play, YouTube’s player loads from youtube-nocookie.com and connects to YouTube and Google servers (such as googlevideo.com, i.ytimg.com and gstatic.com) to stream the film.

If this changes, this note will change with it.