Story videos for kids 5–8

Legends from around the world, remembered together

Join Mia, Leo and Lumi as they jump inside the Book of Legends to help it remember the old stories grandparents used to tell.

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Lumi the moth glowing above the open Book of Legends with nine golden coin slots

The story

The Book of Legends is forgetting its stories

The book wakes up

Sometimes a story chooses the kids. Sometimes they find something from the real world, like a mooncake, that wakes a story up.

Into the legend

Mia, Leo and Lumi are pulled inside the legend. They don't change the story. They watch it closely and learn from it, because the elders told these stories to help children think. Was it brave? Was it clever? Was it fair? What would you have done?

A coin for the story

Once the kids have remembered the story and learned its lesson, they receive a special item from the legend. Back home it turns into a golden coin with the story's icon on it. The coin fills a slot in the Book of Legends, and Lumi glows a little brighter.

The Keepers

Meet Mia, Leo and Lumi

Two best friends from Australia and a tiny keeper with a big job.

The brave one

Mia

An Indonesian-Australian girl with a yellow headband and a big heart. She notices the small things in every new land and always asks why.

The funny one

Leo

Mia's best friend, with curly hair and one front tooth missing. He makes everyone laugh, even when a giant is coming.

Keeper of the Book

Lumi

A fluffy little moth who looks after the Book of Legends. She slept for years while the stories faded. Every story the kids help her remember makes her glow brighter.

Season 1

Nine legends. Nine coins.

Each episode is a real folktale, told gently for young kids, with a little culture lesson inside.

Episode 1

Indonesia

The Golden Cucumber

Brave Timun Mas runs from a hungry green giant with four little magic bags. A story about courage and never giving up.

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Episode 2 · New

Ghana

How Anansi Got the Sky God's Stories

Clever little Anansi the spider takes on four impossible tasks to bring the world its stories.

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Episode 3 · Coming soon

China

Chang'e Flies to the Moon

A mooncake wakes up the next story, and it leads all the way to the moon. Just in time for Moon Festival talk at home.

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Fill the Book of Legends

Season 1 fills one page of the book: nine coins from nine countries. Which legend comes next? Watch along and find out.

Indonesia

Ghana

Coming
soon

China

Lumi watching a child paint blue over a white crayon flower pattern

Six easy batik patterns for kids: Kawung, Parang, Mega Mendung, Truntum, Ceplok and Ombak

Try at home

Make your own batik with a crayon

In The Golden Cucumber, Mia spots batik cloth in Java. Real batik uses hot wax and dye. Kids can get the same magic reveal with a white crayon and blue paint.

KawungParangMega MendungTruntumCeplokOmbak

1Draw a pattern with a white wax crayon. Press hard!

2Paint over it with watery dark blue paint.

3Watch your pattern appear. Fill the gaps with dots, just like real batik.

Watch Lumi make batik

Free printables

Free colouring pages

Colour in the characters from each episode. Print them at home or in the classroom. Always free.

A coloured-in page of Anansi the spider on his web with Mia, Leo and Lumi watching

The same Anansi page as a blank black-and-white colouring sheet

Episode 2 · Ghana

Anansi the Clever Spider colouring pack

Six pages from the story of how Anansi won the Sky God's stories. A4 size, ready to print.

AnansiThe pythonThe proud leopardThe buzzing hornetsThe forest fairyUp to the sky

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A new colouring pack comes with every episode.

For parents & teachers

Old stories, made for little ears

Short, gentle story videos you can feel good about putting on.

Real cultures

Every legend is a real folktale from its country, with food, clothes and customs explained along the way.

Good lessons

Courage, cleverness, honesty, kindness, keeping promises. Each story brings its own lesson.

Gentle, not scary

Giants and tricksters, told softly for ages 5–8. Calm voices, soft music, no jump scares.

Learning extras

Short culture videos, try-at-home activities and free colouring pages, great for the classroom or a rainy afternoon.

The Book of Legends with its golden cucumber coin

Why we made this

Little Legend Keepers was started by an Indonesian-Australian storyteller who grew up loving to read and listen to Timun Mas and the other tales the elders told, and who almost forgot them herself.

Children today know plenty of movie princesses, but very few legends from their own families' cultures. We want to change that, one country at a time, so every child can see the magic in where they come from.

Every episode is made with care and deep respect for the culture its story belongs to. We research each legend and check every cultural detail before it goes into an episode. Our hope is that children come away seeing the beauty in every culture: their own, and their friends' too.

Little Legend Keepers is a small, independent project made by one person. To bring these stories to life on a small budget, we use AI tools for the pictures and voices. Every story is carefully researched, and every scene is checked by a real person.

Our dream: as our community grows, we hope to work with human illustrators and voice actors from the cultures these stories come from.

Help Lumi remember

Know a legend from your culture?

Tell us in the YouTube comments which story your grandparents told you. It might end up in the Book of Legends.

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