Not-Netflix Natters Series 2 Episode 6: Why Some Story Worlds Stay With Children

I saw this with my grandchildren watching The Magic Faraway Tree. What stayed with us were not just the characters, but the wonderfully unexpected details that still make us laugh.

The same is true of Bluey, The Creature Cases and Gabby's Dollhouse.

Each creates a world that feels complete and alive.

Children don’t just watch these stories.

They enter them.They imagine themselves inside them.They return to them again and again.

When a child says:

“Can we watch that again?”

They are not simply asking for the story.

They are asking to go back to the world.