About Storyjamas
In 2026, I had an evening. My child no longer wanted “The Goat and Her Three Kids” — I had read it 47 times already. I had nothing to fall back on. I looked for Romanian apps. I found badly done Google Translate and apps about aliens in English. That was all. It seemed absurd. There are over 800,000 Romanian families in Western Europe. Why doesn't this exist?
Why
Our grandparents read us Creangă. We read our children Creangă too — the same 1985 edition, the same goat, the same three kids. There is nothing wrong with Creangă; it is beautiful that it endures. But a child needs more than five stories in a lifetime, and a tired parent cannot invent a new one every evening. The problem is not that we don't love the Romanian language. We do. The problem is that there aren't enough new stories in Romanian for children in the diaspora. Almost no one writes them anymore. This is not an identity problem. It is a supply problem. Storyjamas solves exactly that: it fills the shelf. New stories, in clean Romanian, with characters the child recognises from one evening to the next.
For whom
For the parent in Munich, London or Madrid who gets home at eight in the evening, with a half-asleep child in their arms, and wants the next ten minutes to be easy. For the parent who wants the evening to stay in Romanian, even if the day was in German, English or Spanish. It is not for those looking for one more screen. It is not for those who want to teach their child maths. It is not for teachers or for technology enthusiasts. It is for a parent, for an evening, for a child who wants one more story.
How it works
You pick a universe — the cats' village of Pisicel or the wolf family of Hăituș. You write one word: “dandelion”, “rain”, “friendship”. In a few minutes you have an illustrated story of six to eight scenes, in Romanian, with the same characters as last time. Mimi stays Mimi: the same blue dress, the same green eyes, from one story to the next. The stories stay in the library. The child asks for them again — and again, and again. Re-reading costs nothing and never runs out. That, in fact, is the real measure: not how many stories you make, but how many times your child asks for the same one. Every story goes through a safety check before it reaches you. You can see, at any time, what we checked and how.
For Sofia. For every other child who heard a story in their own language and fell asleep smiling.
— Alex