The Time Travelers' Academy
by Namu Marupudi
A picture book exploring Life Skills, Adventure, Learning.
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About this story
On a rainy afternoon, best friends Juli, Maya, Alex, and Daniel explore Juli's dusty attic and find something amazing behind a stack of old books: a magnificent golden clock whose face shows pictures instead of numbers — a heart, a book, numbers, a globe, a running figure, and a paintbrush. The moment Alex touches it, the symbols spin, a swirling portal opens, and the friends are pulled into the Time Travelers' Academy — a grand hall of floating books, spinning globes, and shimmering crystals. To find their way home, they must collect six special crystals by learning six important skills, traveling through history to do it: sharing one basket of bread fairly in an ancient village earns the pink Crystal of Kindness; retelling a dragon-and-princess tale for a castle knight earns the blue Crystal of Language; solving pattern puzzles up the steps of a golden desert pyramid earns the green Crystal of Numbers — and the workshop of Renaissance wonders awaits. A chapter-style learning adventure where every stop in time teaches something to bring home.
- Portal — a magical doorway to another place or time
- Academy — a special school for learning
- Crystal — a glowing gem, one for each skill
- Riddle — a puzzle asked as a tricky question
- Pyramid — a giant pointed monument in the desert
- Pattern — something that repeats in order, like multiples of three
- Invention — something new someone builds, like the workshop's flying machines
- Portion — a fair share, like each family's piece of the bread
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