1. The Crayon That Came to Life
The opening of book one, read aloud: a cosy bedroom, one more drawing, and a spaceship that grows until it fills the window.
Read-along from Crayon Spaceship
Watch
Short read-alongs and sing-alongs made from the books. They live on YouTube so they are easy to find and easy to cast to a television, and every one of them has its words written out here as well.
Why the videos are not inside the children's area. The part of this site your child uses carries no adverts and no third-party code at all, and embedding a video player would break that. Watching is something to do together, from here.
Nothing to watch yet. The episodes below are written down but not yet made. The books come first: the first episode goes up once Henry and the Crayon Spaceship can actually be bought.
Episodes
2. Which World Is Near?
The guessing refrain as a song, with a pause on every page so a child can answer before Henry does.
Sing-along from Crayon Spaceship
3. Down Into the Blue
Book two begins: a head full of sea, a fine submarine with a periscope too, and the first shimmer of the reef.
Read-along from Under the Sea
4. Who Is Passing?
The jeep sets off across the plain, and the guessing game of book three begins with stripes and a very long neck.
Read-along from On Safari
5. Goodnight, Milky Way
The quiet end of book one, read slowly: the last cold worlds, the great swirl of stars, and the long way home to bed.
Bedtime story from Crayon Spaceship
What an episode is
One short reading of a few pages, in Henry's own pictures, ending the way every activity on this site ends: with something to do once the screen is off. They are about three minutes long, because the guidance for this age group is about quality and what screen time displaces, not about how long we can hold a child's attention.