The world is worth explaining to a nine-year-old.
Nook is a daily newspaper for curious kids. Every morning before dawn, AI reads hundreds of stories from a vetted list of newsrooms, weighs each one against a child-safety line we set ourselves, and rewrites what survives in warm, plain language — in English and 繁體中文.
A finite newspaper, in an infinite feed.
Ask a child what happened in the world today and you will usually get a shrug. Not because they don’t care — because almost nothing out there is written for them. The news assumes context they don’t have, frames everything for adults, and leads with whatever is most alarming.
The thing most families reach for instead is worse. An algorithmic feed will hand a nine-year-old a clip about a murder trial, then an advert, then a stranger’s opinion, with nothing in between deciding whether any of it belongs in front of a child.
So we built what we wanted for our own kids: a small, finite, finished newspaper. It arrives once a day. You can read all of it. Then it is done.
- ✕Never finishes
- ✕Ranked by what holds attention
- ✕Advertising aimed at your child
- ✕No one decided it was suitable
- ✓24 stories, then it ends
- ✓Chosen by editorial rules, not clicks
- ✓No advertising, ever
- ✓Two independent safety passes
Between 5am and 6am.
Nobody hand-picks 24 stories out of the world’s news before breakfast. Here is what actually happens while everyone is asleep.
- 📡01 · Around 30 sources
Read
Before dawn, Nook pulls the day’s stories from a vetted list of newsrooms, public broadcasters and science publishers.
- 🧠02 · Read in full
Judge
A top-tier language model reads each story in full — not just the headline — and weighs whether it is accurate, age-appropriate and genuinely interesting.
- 🛡️03 · Separate reviewer
Challenge
A second, independent pass tries to reject what the first one chose. Only stories that survive both go forward.
- ✍️04 · EN + 繁中
Rewrite
What survives is rewritten from scratch for a 6-to-15-year-old, with the original publisher always named and linked.
- 🗞️05 · 06:00 HKT
Publish
Both editions go live at 06:00 Hong Kong time, each carrying the date we captured the story and a link back to the original.
No story reaches a child because it was popular. It gets there because two independent passes agreed it belonged.
Most of the news is not for children.
The point of Nook is not what it publishes. It is everything it decides to leave out.
Kind, but not dishonest.
Our rule is simple: we leave out people deliberately harming people.
- Earthquakes, typhoons and floods — and the people who respond to them
- Elections and politics, explained without spin
- Science that is still uncertain, described as uncertain
- Sport, including the losses
- Climate, conservation, and the animals it affects
- Space, engineering, and how ordinary things work
- Violent crime — murder, assault, abuse
- War reporting and conflict imagery
- Graphic, frightening or distressing detail
- Celebrity gossip and manufactured outrage
- Anything that exists to sell a child something
A typhoon is part of the world, and a child can be told about it kindly. Cruelty is not something they need before school.
Ten sections, every morning.
Local news and sport are free for everyone. The learning sections are Nook+ — and free for everyone through the end of 2026.
Built to be finished.
Every story shows its working
Tap the citation and a child sees who published it, when, and the date Nook captured it — then a clear notice before any link takes them off Nook.
Two editions, not one translation
The Chinese edition is sourced from Chinese-language newsrooms, not machine-translated from the English one. They are different papers.
No feed, no autoplay, no ads
Nothing recommends a next story. Nothing plays by itself. Nothing is sold. The edition ends, and that is the design.
One book worth reading
A single featured book sits on the front page — a real recommendation for a child, with the "where to find it" link written for the adult.
Your school’s own newspaper.
Nook for Schools gives a school its own news portal — its brand on the masthead, its own list of trusted sources, an AI editor your teachers drive, and nothing published until a teacher approves it.
Your masthead
Your crest, your colours, your school’s name — on your own address.
Your sources
Choose exactly which newsrooms feed your students, and add your own.
Your AI editor
Re-level a story for P3 or S5, draft comprehension questions, translate an article — a teacher stays in the chair.
Your approval
Nothing reaches a student until a member of your staff has said yes.
Put your book in front of families who still read.
Nook carries one featured book at a time in each language, on the front page. It is written as a genuine recommendation for a child — cover, author, and a couple of sentences about why it is worth their time — with the "where to find it" link written for the adult, behind a clear notice before they leave Nook.
Physical or digital
Both work. We link families wherever you want them to go — your shop, a retailer, a library catalogue, or an ebook store.
One book at a time
Not a listing wall. For the whole of its run, your title is the featured book — there is nothing else competing for the slot.
Written in Nook’s voice
We write the child-facing blurb the same way we write the news: plain, warm and honest. In English, 繁體中文, or both.
Scheduled to your date
Line the run up with a publication date, a book fair, or a reading month — for as long a run as we agree.
This applies to the public edition of Nook only. School editions work differently: a school controls its own featured books entirely from its admin console and chooses its own titles. We do not place books into a school’s portal.
Tell us the title, the audience you have in mind, and when it publishes. We’ll come back with what we can offer.
Come and read this morning’s edition.
It takes about ten minutes. Then it’s finished — which is rather the point.