Columbus · Tale 1 — The First Century

A Becoming Tale, read aloud. Columbus — a dodo out of time, falling slowly through the centuries with a pocket watch and a collection of carried songs — lands on a quayside in Plymouth in the year 1668. A gentle bedtime story for children aged 5 to 11.In this episode: a boy named Will, waiting on the quay for his father's ship, meets a small grey dodo in a tricorn hat who wants to know the exact year, please — not the decade. They sit by the harbour, and when a sailors' song carries across the water, Will teaches Columbus the chorus, twice through, the way you teach a thing to someone who means to keep it. A warm, unhurried story about the small things you carry from one year to the next that don't get smaller in the carrying.Read the illustrated version, and explore the interactive stories where your child is the hero, at yourbecoming.app.