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October 8, 2026

The Public Library: stories by kids, for everyone to read

Every finished story your child has written can now go on a shared set of shelves that every family on the site can browse and read. It is a whole new room, reached from the Library menu: the same wooden shelves you know, filled with real books written by real kids, organized by world (The Kingdom, Galaxy Command, Game HQ) and by tags like Adventure, Friendship, Courage and Funny. Tap a book to turn it over: a back-cover blurb, a short Meet the Character paragraph, the author's own About Me page, and a Read button that opens the full book in the same page-turning reader your child uses for their own stories.

Your family's My Stories and Co-Starring shelves moved here too. They sit at the top of the Public Library, right where they were on the main library before.

A parent always has the final say

When your child finishes a story they get a simple offer: share it to the Public Library? If they say yes, nothing happens until you say yes too. A card appears on your dashboard showing you exactly what readers will see, blurb and tags included, and you can tweak either before you approve. On the shelves your child is always their character name, never their real name, and their real age, where they live, and any photo on their author page never show. Every book also passes an automatic safety check before it reaches you, and you can take a book off the shelves at any time with one tap.

A book that goes on the shelves earns your child 5 story tokens the first time it is approved.

Reactions, reads and bookmarks

Readers can leave four kinds of reactions on a book: Loved it, Funny, Exciting and Sweet. There are no star ratings and nothing negative, on purpose. Every book shows how many times it has been read, the most-loved books get their own shelf, and you can bookmark any book for later, exactly like the assessment library. If something ever looks wrong in a book, a quiet link in its modal lets you tell us and a person takes a look.

One table for every kind of book

Flip the Shelves switch off in either library and you get a single table that lists story assessments and Public Library books together, with a Type filter to show just one kind, a search box, and a Bookmarked-only view. Click any row to open it, whichever room it lives in.

Thanks for being part of The Assessment Library. There's much more on the way!