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Coming soon · four editions · 52 weeks

Your child learns to read,
to count and to swim.
Who teaches them what
they believe in?

Once a week you stay at the table after dinner. You read a short story out loud, you ask one question, and you let the silence last ten seconds. That is all it is. And it is often the only moment in the week when a child says what they really think.

€ 15,55paperback, in colour
€ 7,99e-book
in four editions
Order the book Read a week first

52 weeks · from age six · Islamic, Jewish, Christian or Buddhist · half a page for the parent with every week

A family at the table, three generations together
Every week one question that has no right answer.
Week 26

Eating together

Omslag van de christelijke uitgave

Four minutes a week

There is nothing
to prepare.

  1. 1
    You read the story out loud.Just over a minute, about a child who goes through something your child recognises.
  2. 2
    You ask the question.One sentence. There is no right answer, so everyone can join in — the youngest too.
  3. 3
    You let it fall silent.Ten seconds. Children need them; adults almost always fill them too soon.
  4. 4
    You close with two lines.A little prayer, or in the Buddhist edition a small wish. After that dinner simply carries on.

Week 26 — the same Thursday

Four families, four tables,
the same question.

Every edition has its own sources, its own drawings and its own closing words. The story and the question are the same in all four. That way four families talk about the same thing on the same evening, without anyone having to take on something that is not theirs.

The question is the same
in all four editions

“What is the nicest thing ever said at this table?”

Look inside the book

All fifty-two weeks,
there to be read.

Week 1

The question of the week

The hardest part of the whole book

Ten seconds of silence.

Ask the question out loud, press here, and say nothing at all until the light runs out. It is shorter than it feels.

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The book

Four editions,
one price.

€ 15,55
Paperback, in colour
€ 7,99
E-book
  • 52 weeks in four blocks: who am I · you and the other · the world around you · what you take with you
  • Every week its own drawing, a story, a question and two closing lines
  • Behind every week half a page for the parent, with what to say when the conversation stalls
  • For children of about six to twelve, and for everyone listening in
Choose your edition Read a week first

Written by Maya, published by Chi Publishing. The English edition appears shortly after the Dutch one.

For schools

Four editions side by side
in one classroom.

In religious education the same question is central every week, while each child reads along in the edition from home. No child has to take on anything that is not theirs.

€ 59,95Set of four

All four editions, one of each. Invoiced, payable afterwards.

Set on approval

Look first, decide later. If it is not for you, send the set back free of charge.

Classroom set

Twenty copies or more, in whatever mix suits your class. Price on request.

Request a set on approval

Who made this

Maya,
Chi Publishing.

This is not missionary work and not an interfaith project. It is a book for the table, written from one thought: children ask the same questions in every home, and every home has its own words for them.

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