Give your child a library of answers about the living world

Children ask questions faster than adults can answer them. Why do leaves turn yellow? Does the kraken really exist? Why does a bear walk into a village in autumn? Parents often reach for a quick search, and what comes back is a short clip, a half-true listicle or a video made mainly to hold attention.

This course is a different kind of answer. It is a library of long-form video lectures in which one topic is explored from start to finish, in language a child of five or six can follow and an adult still finds interesting. A typical lecture lasts about an hour. Shorter ones run closer to twenty minutes, and there is a separate shelf of mini-lectures for the youngest viewers.

The lectures are built around a simple idea: nature is more surprising than any invented monster. A giant squid, a flightless parrot that smells of honey, a mole-rat that digs with its teeth and an amphibian that never grows up are all real. When the facts are told well, children stop asking for something else to watch.

The library has been growing for years and keeps growing. You pay once, and the lectures that already exist and the ones added later all belong to your access.

The course is a self-paced library of recorded video lectures. There is no schedule, no deadline and no homework to hand in. You open a lecture when you have time, pause it when dinner is ready and come back tomorrow.

The library is organised into collections, such as dangerous and poisonous species, giants of the animal world, space journeys, natural hazards, dinosaurs, surviving winter and school-related topics. You can also filter by length, choosing lectures of up to 30 minutes or up to 60 minutes, which makes it easy to match a lecture to the evening you have.

Most lectures are written for children aged 5 and older, and a few are marked for older viewers, for example catastrophes or topics about the human body for ages 16+. There is also a shelf of mini-lectures for children from three. The modules below group a selection of the lectures by theme so you can see what the library covers.

After a few weeks, you will probably notice that the questions in your home have changed. Instead of asking whether something is true, your child starts asking how scientists know, and what would happen if.

You will have a shelf of lectures to return to whenever a question comes up. A walk in the forest, a trip to the sea or a documentary about dinosaurs becomes a reason to open the library and find the matching lecture.

For older children, the lectures on digital fakes and neural network mistakes give a practical habit: check the source before you believe a surprising picture. For you as an adult, they offer a quiet evening of learning together without the guilt that often comes with screens.