For authors and publishers
Put your stories into real places.
Bring your story to life in real places. Readers follow it out into the world, chapter by chapter: anywhere, or at the real places in the book. For children's books and grown-up ones.
At a glance
- For
- Authors, illustrators and publishers, of children's books and grown-up ones.
- Two ways to tell it
- Story trails in the Scavvi app (coming soon), or with a place or under your own name.
- Your words
- Credit and rights agreed with you before anything goes live.
- To begin
- A conversation about the book, who reads it and where it's set.
Two ways to tell it
For young readers, and for everyone else.
Story trails in the Scavvi app
For children and families. Play anywhere for a silver stamp, or find the real place for gold and a secret chapter.
With a place, or under your own name
For readers of any age. For example, a launch at a bookshop, or a literary walk through the streets a novel is set in.
otto's map, chapter 3
One chapter, up close.
From Otto and the Map of Small Wonders, an example story we wrote to show how it works. Tap through it on the phone, or read it here.
- The page
The map had a new mark this morning: a tiny lion, drawn in gold. Otto tiptoed past the bakery. Above a blue door, a brass lion held a ring in its mouth. It didn't roar. It only watched, and Otto was almost sure it winked.
- The mission
- Find a lion that never roars.
- What counts as a find
- A lion on a door, a wall or a gate: a knocker, a carving or a statue.
- A hint
- Look up, at the front doors on your street. Lions like to sit where grown-ups knock.
- Did you know?
- People were knocking on front doors with knockers long before doorbells came along.
- Talk about it
- What do you think the lion is guarding?
How do you want to play?
What happens in this example
- An example story, Otto and the Map of Small Wonders. Choose to play anywhere for silver stamps, or at the real place for gold.
- Chapter 3: a page of the story to read.
- The mission: find a lion that never roars. There is a hint and a question to talk about together.
- Phone down, eyes up: a short timer to look around together, then tap when you're done.
- Back to the mission: spotted the lion? Snap it, and the app checks the photo.
- The chapter's stamp lands in the passport.
With a place
Made together with a place.
An author and a museum, garden or town can make one together. The place approves what happens there.
Credit and rights
Your story stays yours.
We'll agree credit and rights with you before anything goes live, and take it down if you ask.
Ways in
How it reaches readers.
- In the Scavvi app, for children and families. Coming soon
- A link in your newsletter, or on your website. In development
- Later, a QR code printed in the book. In development
Learn
What you'll learn.
Answers to the questions you set: which chapters people started and finished, grouped with small groups hidden, plus short optional ratings. A finished chapter shows someone completed it, not that they enjoyed it or went on to buy the book. Never an individual child, their photos or their route.
Working together
Ways to work with us.
Made with you
We'll shape it with you: the brief, the writing, the route and the walk-test. Most first projects start here.
In developmentBuild it with your team
Once the studio is ready, your own team can make, check and refresh experiences themselves, with us on hand.
In development
Prices. Prices aren't set. A first project is scoped with you, including content, set-up and support, not just software.
Tell us about your story.
Tell us about the book, who reads it and where it's set. We'll tell you honestly whether Scavvi fits, and how we'd look after your words.
Talk to usOr write to us at hello@scavvi.com