About Maple-kids
Maple-kids is a Canadian technology company that helps parents create personalized digital storybooks for their children. Our live online platform allows families to create an account, personalize a story, preview the result, and receive a completed digital storybook.
Our Story
Our Mission
Meet the Founder
Hessam Mohammadi is the Founder and CEO of Maple-kids. With a background in technology, software development, and digital product creation, he founded Maple-kids to help families create more personal and meaningful reading experiences for children. He leads the development of the Maple-kids platform, product strategy, and customer experience.
A Live Story Creation Platform
Maple-kids is currently live and available to parents and families. Users can create an account, enter their child’s details, select a story topic, personalize the content, preview the result, and access the completed digital book through their Maple-kids dashboard.
Why We Exist
Children do not simply read books ; they live those experiences when they see themselves within a book. The experience that is created for children as a result of seeing themselves in literature can be profound. They begin to build self-confidence. Their ability to identify and express their emotions becomes safer. They perceive challenges as being much smaller than before.
At Maple-Kids we bridge the gap between the imaginative world of childhood and the reality of today by transforming a child’s world (their family, their culture, their concerns, and their talents) into meaningful stories which help create an environment of emotional development.
Our personalized storybooks help children:
- assisting your child in understanding and identifying their feelings
- developing strategies to manage issues such as anxiety, transitioning from one situation to another, dealing with siblings
- helping them develop pride in who they are and where they came from
- Strengthen their relationship with family
Our Values
Emotional Intelligence
We believe that emotional intelligence is just as important as academic achievement. In our storytelling, every single one of our maple-kids Stories gently teaches children about the importance of developing their ability to empathize with others, develop resiliency, become aware of how they feel, and develop the skill to manage their emotions — all in an appropriate way for their developmental stage.
Inclusion & Cultural Respect
Every family comes in a different form. Families come in different cultures. Families speak different languages. Families have different traditions. And so do their children. At maple-kids, we take great pride in creating Stories with a deep respect for the diversity of our families’ Values and traditions. This ensures that every time you read a maple-kids story with your child, he or she will know that there is a place where they are represented, valued, and celebrated for being who they are.
Family Connection
Reading books to your child is more than reading. It’s connecting. Reading books to your child creates opportunities for conversation, strengthens bonds between parents and children, and provides special memories that families will cherish forever.
Who Writes Our Stories
The maple-kids team includes professional writers, educators and other creative thinkers knowledgeable in child development and informed by positive psychology and early childhood educational research. The principles used to guide the writing of every maple-kids story are grounded in evidence-based practices related to emotional development and positive psychological outcomes; however, each story also has a “magical,” “playful” and “deeply personal” quality to it.
We don’t just change names
When families share their individualized Stories with us at maple-kids, we listen carefully to the details of each family’s experiences and then thoughtfully weave them into a story that resonates as authentic, supportive and empowering to both parents and children.