Things to Do in Bratislava with Kids Aged 8-12

Roald Dahl's story of Matilda, a girl who loves books more than TV, outthinks the adults around her and discovers she can move things with her mind. With help from her teacher Miss Honey, she stands up to Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress who rules the school by fear. This is a Slovak-language replica of the Brno City Theater production, with Tim Minchin's songs, a big cast of child performers and a live 12-piece orchestra.

Perníková chalúpka is Engelbert Humperdinck's children's opera Hansel and Gretel, staged by the Slovak National Theater (SND) Opera at the new SND building. Janko and Marienka are sent into the woods, find the witch's gingerbread house and outwit her. A full orchestra plays catchy, folk-song melodies, and the Bratislava Boys' Choir sings too. It is sung in Slovak with Slovak surtitles, so it suits kids who know the fairy tale and can sit through three acts with one intermission.

A guided walk for kids through the central Bratislava spots where people stood up to the communist regime in November 1989. They find out why crowds jingled keys on the squares and how news spread without the internet.

Interactive tasks along the way: listen to a forbidden broadcast, put together a protest banner or play book smuggler. Margita Petríková leads it.

A family stage show at Bratislava Puppet Theater (Bratislavské bábkové divadlo) that tells the incredible adventures of Móric Beňovský.

It suits school-age kids who like an adventure story and can sit through a longer show. Toddlers may find it a stretch.

Lab.cafe is a makerspace and cafe inside Stará Tržnica, the old market hall on Námestie SNP. The workshop is fitted with laser cutters, 3D printers and hand tools, and the cafe serves food and drinks from local producers.

Kids come for the after-school tech club (soldering, electronic kits, laser and 3D printing), one-off workshops, and birthday parties built around a hands-on project like terrariums or 3D pens.

Chefparade is the largest cooking school in Slovakia, with a studio on Vysoká. In its kids' classes, a professional chef walks children through a themed menu from start to finish: rolling sushi, American burgers and homemade donuts, or handmade spaghetti and tiramisu.

Kids go home with the recipes. Parents can drop off, or book a parent-and-child class and cook a three-course menu together.

Logiscool is an after-school tech school where kids learn coding, AI and digital skills in small groups, each child on a provided laptop. Younger kids start with visual block coding, LEGO robots and creative tools, then move on to written code, game projects and a Python diploma. Creative tech courses cover digital art, video and robotics. Courses run in person here or online from home.

A musical version of The Wizard of Oz staged on ice, with skaters and aerial gymnasts telling the classic story to original songs and lighting effects.

All dialogue and songs are in Slovak. It suits Slovak-speaking kids best, and kids who already know the story can follow a lot through the skating and aerial acts.

Ceramicist Renáta Makarová runs this clay studio from her family house. A parent and child sign up together, model pieces from their own ideas and learn shaping and decorating techniques, then glaze them in a later session. Every piece is fired twice in the studio kiln, so it is collected afterward. Kids' birthday parties here center on clay modeling, followed by games and a disco.

An indoor laser tag center with a dark, UV-lit arena and 20 game modes, run by an instructor who explains each round in English. There are three formats: Action, with touchscreen guns and no heavy vests; Tactical, with heavier replica guns and red dot sights; and Junior, with lighter gear and simpler rules for younger siblings. Between games, the chill-out zone has PlayStation, foosball, darts and soft axe throwing.

Room Number 13 runs themed escape games in the Old Town: a survival game, a crime-scene mystery, a temple adventure, and Battle Arena, where two teams race in identical rooms split by a glass wall.

Kids' birthday parties use versions retold for younger players, with a host keeping the game on track and a party room for cake afterward. Some party games for groups of friends are 18+.

TimeShift is a 300 m² virtual reality center with more than 20 multiplayer VR games: story adventures, escape rooms and arena shooters. Players see and hear each other inside the game, in teams of 2 to 10. Staff give a headset briefing first and stay in contact throughout.

Younger siblings can play "floor is lava", jumping across colored floor squares in time to music. A bar serves drinks and snacks.

Pajštún is a castle ruin on a rocky crag above Borinka, first recorded in 1271 and rebuilt by Italian fortress builders in the 1640s. Napoleon's troops later blew up several of its walls.

Kids can hunt for the six surviving stone lion heads by the gate, each with a different face, plus a fallen one lying near the entrance. It suits kids who can manage a steep forest climb.

A flat, fully paved cycle route on EuroVelo 6 that follows the Petržalka dike south from the old town to Danubiana, a boat-shaped modern art museum on a Danube peninsula. Along the way kids pass pebble beaches, an abandoned BS-15 military bunker, houseboats, Rusovce Lake and the Hrušov reservoir.

A bike ferry from Čunovo crosses to Hamuliakovo for the ride back along the other bank.

GoEscape runs virtual reality escape rooms. A team of two to six puts on wireless headsets, controllers and backpacks, then walks barefoot through one shared virtual world, solving puzzles together against the clock. Missions include a space station, a sunken temple, a pirate plague, ninja trials and a dragon's tower. A game master watches every move and can give hints, and the games need almost no reading.

Another World is a free-roam virtual reality arena: players wear wireless headsets and move around the room together, with no cables. Groups of 2 to 18 pick from more than 20 games, from shooters and sci-fi missions to Ghost Tower: Fishing and Dance. A staff member watches every session and helps kids. A separate lounge with board and console games hosts birthday cakes and snacks.

The museum fills Bratislava's first pumping station, built in 1886 on the left bank of the Danube. Inside, four large models of the old waterworks, virtual reconstructions you can walk through, and short films show where the city's tap water comes from and where it goes.

Outside, the three-hectare grounds hold a garden with a cascade fountain, a playground, a small water tower with a lookout, and old pumps.

Mirbach Palace is a Rococo palace built in 1768 to 1770 and one of the two buildings of the Bratislava City Gallery. Its first floor keeps the original tiled stoves, wood paneling, mirrors and stucco ceilings.

On the ground floor, a drop-in studio has tables set with kinetic sand, pastels and a drawing guestbook, plus beanbags and a small library. Instructions are in Slovak and English.

Bratislava Castle sits on a hill 85 meters above the Danube and houses the Slovak National Museum's Museum of History. Inside are the History of Slovakia exhibition, the castle chapel, a treasury and the 13th-century Crown Tower, the oldest standing part of the castle, which looks out over Slovakia, Austria and Hungary. Outside, the castle grounds and a Baroque garden stay open long after the museum closes.

The Vienna Christmas Market fills Rathausplatz, the square in front of Vienna City Hall, and is considered one of Europe's biggest Christmas markets. Kids come for the lights, the stalls and Ice Dream, the ice rink set between the Burgtheater and City Hall.

It works well as a day trip from Bratislava: browse the market, then go skating.

A traditional St. Martin's lantern procession: families meet on a square and walk together.

It suits kids. Watching is enough to follow along, so it needs no Slovak.

VeDETSKÝ deň is a hands-on science day at the Aurelium science center, held during Slovakia's Science and Technology Week. Kids can try robotics, VR headsets and pyrography in the SmartLabs, see hydrogen cars and test the exhibits and activity stands.

On stage, Michal Figura's Kúzelná fyzika is a show of tricks built on physics, and Cirkuskus puts on a light show with juggling and acrobatics. The program is in Slovak.

The children's side of the ČSOB Bratislava Marathon weekend. Kids run their own short races while runners from more than 50 countries take on the longer distances.

It suits kids who like to run and want a race of their own, and parents who want a taste of race day without the long distances.

An indoor laser game center in the ePort building, with two laser tag arenas: Neon City, spread over 500 m², and the smaller Shape arena. Between games, kids can play nine themed holes of laser mini golf, work through the laser maze, jump into Pixel Games or try the arcade machines.

Billiards, darts, foosball and ping-pong fill the wait, and Laser Pizza feeds everyone after.

Zážitkoland is a 600 m² themed indoor world on the first floor of SportMall, built as a pirate jungle. Teams get a game and clues, then move through film-style sets with lights, sound and effects, solving tasks as they go.

It ends in three pirate escape rooms with a secret code to crack. A pirate exhibition with an audio guide adds replicas and artifacts, and costumes can be borrowed.

Sandberg is a hill of ancient sea sand on the western slopes of Devínska Kobyla, inside a national nature reserve. A sea covered the area 14 to 16 million years ago, and remains of more than 250 species have been found here, from sharks and whales to seals, mastodons and rhinos.

The summit plateau looks out over Devín Castle, the Morava river and the Danube.

Devínska Kobyla is the city's highest hill (514 m), a wooded limestone ridge with marked trails to Devín, Dúbravka and Karlova Ves. The E2 nature trail has five boards on its rare plants, wildlife and history.

On the summit sit the concrete silos and bunkers of an abandoned Cold War missile base, and an observation tower shaped like a praying mantis looks out over the Danube, the Morava and Austria.

Vajnory Lake, which locals call Bager, is a pair of former gravel pits turned swimming lakes: the larger Veľký bager and the smaller Malý bager, joined by a channel. Digging started around 1938 and stopped in 2001.

It is a natural bathing spot, not a pool, so kids swim in open lake water. Through the summer the regional public health office samples the water for bathing quality.

Nová scéna is a musical theater on Kollárovo námestie, running since 1946 in the former Alfa cinema. Its repertoire mixes international musicals such as Matilda (in a Slovak adaptation) and Mamma Mia! with original Slovak musicals, plus musical fairy tales for younger kids like Tom a Lola. Shows play with a live orchestra in the main hall or the smaller Štúdio Olympia.

A branch of the Slovak Technical Museum, set in two halls beside the main train station. One hall holds horse-drawn carriages, early bicycles (including a wooden one from 1922), vintage cars, motorcycles and real diesel and electric locomotives. The other traces Czechoslovak Škoda cars and prototypes built locally in the 1980s.

A playroom with transport toys, books and puzzles gives small kids a break.

The national art collection fills the Water Barracks (Vodné kasárne) and the Bridge (Premostenie) on Rázus Embankment. Galleries run from sacred art and early modern European painting to The Modern and Design Unpacked.

For kids, Professor Hamster's 15-minute interactive projection tells the story of art, with short animated films on Frida Kahlo and Picasso. The SNG Family Club runs workshops, and a children's studio sits on the ground floor.

Michael's Tower is the only one of the Old Town's four medieval gates still standing, and it is more than seven centuries old.

Since a 2021-2023 restoration, the tower itself is the exhibit. Kids climb floor by floor from its oldest section upward, through the story of its bells, tower clock, onion-shaped roof and Archangel Michael statue with its time capsule, to the view at the top.

The town hall grew from a 14th-century house with a tower, and since 1868 it has housed the Bratislava City Museum. Kids can climb the tower for a view over the old town, cross an arcaded Renaissance courtyard, and walk rooms on coronations, guilds, Danube trade and city life.

An interactive game with physical pieces tells how the building grew, and a short film closes the visit.

Devín Castle is a ruin spread across 6 hectares of rock high above the spot where the Morava flows into the Danube. Paths climb through the Lower, Middle and Upper Castle past Roman and Great Moravian remains, a 55-meter-deep well and a viewing platform. The small Maiden Tower stands on its own slender crag. Indoors, an exhibition shows more than 300 archaeological finds and fossil-rich sand from an ancient sea.

A traditional Christmas market on the Schloss Hof palace estate in Austria, built around crafts, festive food, brass and choir music, and a children's world.

Kids decorate gingerbread, make a Christmas keepsake, write a wish letter to the Christ Child and ride a pony, while the estate's animals act out the nativity. It suits younger kids more than teens.

An ice stadium that opens its rink to the public for skating sessions, with places capped per session. A rental desk runs during every public session with kids' and adult skates (figure and hockey styles), plus adjustable training frames and helmets for first-timers. Skates can also be sharpened on site.

Avion Ice Rink is an indoor rink inside Avion Shopping Park, the mall that also holds an IKEA store. Public skating shares the ice with kids' and youth hockey, and the rink closes to the public on tournament days.

The mall has more for kids under the same roof, including IKEA's Småland play area, a kids' train and outdoor playgrounds, so a skate fits into a longer rainy-day outing.

Divoká Voda is an artificial whitewater course on the Danube, with two linked channels about 460 m long that host world-level slalom and freestyle races. Teens can raft and kayak the rapids.

Younger kids use the calm return channel, which has no current, for paddleboards, kayaks and the aquaroller, an inflatable roller you run inside on the water. There's also an outdoor pool, archery and beach volleyball.

A public garden on the grounds of the Waterworks Museum, beside the Karloveské rameno river arm and the cycle route to Devín. Kids head for the playground and the Water Drop cascade fountain, then climb the small water tower for a view over the whole garden.

A lawn with the old Boy with a Heron fountain, a covered gazebo and an outdoor museum display fill the quieter side.

A falconry center and contact mini zoo with a collection of more than 100 bird species. Falconers fly falcons and other birds of prey in live demonstrations, with commentary in Slovak or English.

Between shows, kids can get close to rare birds and exotic animals in the contact zoo, use the playground, and try archery with an instructor. A falconry club teaches kids and adults the basics.

Slovakia's first summer bobsled track has run since 1996 on Cvičná lúka, the meadow below the Kamzík TV tower in the Koliba area, surrounded by the old forests of the Little Carpathians. Riders sit in a sled and run it down the track through the trees, holding the brake with both hands to set their own speed. Bufet BOBO, the snack bar at the track, covers food and drinks.

Horský Park is a 23-hectare forest park on the hillside by Slavín, laid out from 1870 across two valleys and the ridge between them. Paths wind under trees up to 35 meters tall, past a nature trail with information boards, old memorials and an outdoor gallery of contemporary Slovak sculpture.

The restored forest lodge at its center has a playground and a café.

The New Building of the Slovak National Theatre is the home stage of the national opera, ballet and drama companies, with three halls under one roof: the Opera and Ballet Stage, the Drama Stage and the Studio. Morning children's shows run here, such as the Peter Pan ballet and Mouflon Ancijáš, an original Slovak opera for kids. The lobby and halls often display theater costumes and exhibitions.

Pasienky has the city's only indoor 50-meter pool, opened in 1974, with spectator stands and a restaurant in the building. Next to it is a four-lane 25-meter teaching pool, 0.8 to 1.2 meters deep and kept at 28°C, rebuilt in 2023-2025 with heated floors, new showers and changing rooms.

The teaching pool is the one for children and beginners. Swim clubs and schools rent lanes in both.

A city-run ice rink, rebuilt in 2022-2023, shared by hockey clubs, schools and public skating sessions where anyone can drop in.

Skates can be rented and sharpened during public sessions, the changing rooms have an attendant, and the hall has a snack bar and a coffee machine. A free car park sits next to the stadium.

The oldest ice hockey hall in Slovakia, rebuilt in 2009-2011, with a 10,055-seat main arena and two training rinks. Families come for the public skating sessions, with skate rental and sharpening on site, plus helmets and skating aids for kids still finding their balance.

A buffet in the training halls, vending machines and restaurants inside the stadium cover snacks.

K2 is the largest climbing wall in Slovakia, with about 2,000 square meters of climbing surface and rope routes up to 15.5 meters high. A separate 200-square-meter bouldering area keeps climbing low and rope-free.

The hall has gear rental, climbing instructors, a shop, a cafe and a children's playground.

An air-conditioned trampoline hall of nearly 3,000 square meters with more than 13 courts. Kids can bounce in the free jump zone, play trampoline dodgeball and slam-dunk basketball, fly off a trapeze onto an airbag, and climb a rope-free wall above a sponge pool. A ninja course, battle beams, a wipe-out track with spinning bars and interactive light and video games round it out. There's a bistro on site.

SpacePark is a space-themed indoor play center in the SportMall building on Hodonínska. Inside are slides and tube slides, a climbing frame world, a trampoline arena and an adrenaline zone, plus separate play areas for the youngest kids.

An airport-themed café on site gives parents a place to sit, and the center also hosts birthday parties.

A school observatory on the roof of the Deutsche Schule Bratislava, opened to the public in 2024. Guides take small groups into the dome to look through a 40 cm mirror telescope at the night sky.

A separate solar telescope with a narrowband filter shows the Sun's surface, flares and prominences included, so daytime sessions are possible too.

Kamzík is a 194-meter TV tower and the city's tallest building, shaped like a wine bottle for the Little Carpathian vineyards. It was built from the top down and finished in 1975.

The Lookout in the Clouds, an unattended deck up to 110 meters high, looks out over the city, forests and vineyards. Below it, the restaurant at 101 meters turns a full circle in 45 minutes.

The UFO is the saucer-shaped pod on top of the pylon of Most SNP, the bridge over the Danube. An elevator inside the pylon rides up in 45 seconds to an observation terrace 95 m up, with a 360° view of Bratislava Castle, St. Martin's Cathedral, the old town and the river. On clear days the view reaches up to 100 km.

3D Land is a gallery of 3D paintings and optical illusions, with graffiti murals by a 3D spray artist. The painted scenes are made to be stepped into: kids pose in front of a shark, inside an underwater bubble or tugging a giant crab, and the camera makes it look real.

Aurelium is a hands-on science center run by CVTI SR, the Slovak state science information center. More than 100 interactive exhibits fill a 2,000 m² hall, covering mechanics, optics, magnetism, chemistry, math, robotics and the human senses, and kids are meant to touch every one. Guides on the floor explain how each exhibit works. The name honors the Slovak scientist Aurel Stodola.

The Primate's Palace is a classicist palace, once the winter residence of Archbishop Batthyány and now the seat of the city's mayor. Visitors walk through the Hall of Mirrors and a gallery holding six 17th-century tapestries woven at Mortlake near London, found hidden behind the hall's walls in 1903. The route ends in a glass-walled oratory that looks down into the Chapel of St. Ladislaus.

The museum fills the second and third floors of the Slovak National Museum's 1920s building on the Danube embankment. Kids find more than 700 fossils, a model of the dinosaur that left tracks in the High Tatras, a two-meter mammoth tusk and a woolly mammoth model. Other rooms hold forest and mountain dioramas, a nearly six-meter beluga sturgeon, coral reef and polar scenes, and over 1,100 minerals, including Kremnica gold.

A run of shows and sessions around Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince from BIBIANA, Bratislava's art house for children. In the new theater play, kids help repair a broken-down plane and meet the prince's neighbors from other planets.

Older kids can join creative reading hours with a guide who is the prince's friend, and the whole family can see the story as a ballet. Everything is led in Slovak.

PumpPark Petržalka is an asphalt pump track with nearly 600 m of track, which its builders call the largest of its kind in central Europe. Riders move by pumping their body over the bumps instead of pedaling, on bikes, scooters, skateboards or inline skates.

Separate zones suit beginners, intermediate and experienced riders. Volunteers from the cycling group OZ Pedál built it on a run-down BMX track.

Veľký Draždiak is a 13-hectare lake left by gravel digging, ringed by lawns, a stony shore and a small trial sand beach. Swimming is allowed at your own risk: it is a fishing ground, not an official bathing area, and a summer water rescue team watches the shore.

There is a playground with a drinking fountain, changing cabins, loungers, snack bars, and swans and ducks on the water.

A neighborhood playground built around a wooden castle with slides. Toddlers get safe swings and a sandpit, older kids a zip line, and there are courts for basketball, football and table tennis.

Plenty of trees and gazebos give shade on summer afternoons, and a drawing board waits for anyone who brings chalk.

ZOO Bratislava spreads over 96 hectares in Mlynská dolina, with about 1,300 animals of 194 species. Expect white rhinos, giraffes, zebras, pygmy hippos, a big cat house with lions and Sri Lankan leopards, and chimpanzees and orangutans in the primate house. The Carpathian Forest section holds wolves, lynx and European bison. Two playgrounds have a zip line, climbing frames and rope swings.

A two-seat chairlift that climbs almost a kilometer through the Bratislava Forest Park, rising 186 meters from the Železná studnička valley to Koliba, near the Kamzík TV tower. The ride takes about 15 minutes over the Little Carpathian woods.

Bikes and scooters ride along in summer, skis in winter. At the bottom there is space for ball games, grilling and fishing; at the top, a bobsled track and rope park.

Kamzík is a 439-meter hill in the Bratislava Forest Park, topped by the 200-meter TV tower with a revolving restaurant and a 15-meter wooden lookout tower.

Below it, the Cvičná lúka meadow is a sledding and practice ski slope with a lift in winter. A 360-meter bobsled track runs year-round, the Lanoland ropes course opens in the warmer months, and a chairlift links the hill to Železná studnička.

Partizánska lúka is the busiest meadow at Železná studnička, a recreation area in the Bratislava Forest Park. It has a large playground, an outdoor fitness set, table tennis, pétanque and space for soccer, basketball and volleyball.

Boats can be rented on the fourth lake just above the meadow, a 400-meter tree trail runs nearby, and a cable car climbs from Snežienka up to Kamzík.

Rusovce Manor Park is a 15-hectare English landscape park around a Neo-Gothic manor house on the right bank of the Danube. Open lawns alternate with tree groves, and a Neo-Gothic water tower stands at the south-east edge.

The manor grounds are run by the Government Office and are closed to the public while a restoration is planned. The forest beyond the Rusovce canal is used for walks.

Block Dock Rača is a bouldering gym: short climbs on low walls without ropes or harnesses, with soft crash mats underneath. More than 140 problems cover over 1,000 m², from easy routes for first-timers to a MoonBoard and a 45° spray wall, and one wall gets new problems each week.

Kids have their own small climbing wall, and the gym has a terrace and a café.

A water park beside the Slnečné jazerá lakes, with an indoor hall open all year and an outdoor zone in summer. Indoors, toddlers get a warm play pool with a water umbrella and a small slide, and bigger kids get an indoor slide, a bouncy castle and a kids' cinema. Hippo Paul's playground sits upstairs by the restaurant.

Summer adds a lazy river and nine more slides outside.

Kino Lumière is the Slovak Film Institute's own cinema, a four-screen film club on Špitálska that has shown films since 1976. Its program leans on Slovak, European and archive film, with a children's strand of animated films and family titles for toddlers through teens.

Tuesday-morning Baby kino screenings run with low sound and soft light for parents with babies, and monthly sensory-friendly kids' screenings keep the room to 50 seats.

A bouldering gym (climbing low walls without ropes, over soft landing mats) in the EINPARK building on Einsteinova. More than 100 problems suit first-timers through strong climbers, one wall is reset every week, and there is a Kilter Board. Kids get a large climbing zone of their own plus a play corner with toys, and parents can sit in the cafe. Climbing shoes and chalk are for rent.

Jump Fun by the Airport puts three attractions under one roof. Jump Arena is a trampoline park with open jumping zones and basketball hoops for dunk attempts mid-bounce. KidsHouse is an indoor play hall, and Laser Zone runs laser tag games.

It suits a cold or rainy afternoon, or a group of siblings who want different things.

Zlaté Piesky (Golden Sands) is the city's largest body of water, a lake with a beach that works as a natural swimming spot.

Around the shore sit children's playgrounds, a boat rental, tennis courts, beach volleyball, a football pitch, outdoor ping-pong tables, pétanque and a water-ski tow. There are places to eat, plus a campsite, bungalows and cabins for an overnight stay.

Bowlingové Národné Centrum is a bowling alley with 16 professional Brunswick lanes, each taking up to eight players. Eight of the lanes have retractable bumpers for kids, and lightweight balls are on hand for younger bowlers.

The building also holds a restaurant, a bar and a hotel, and the center hosts kids' birthday parties, school class sessions and tournaments.

Jump Fun Nivy combines a trampoline park with an indoor play center. Kids bounce on high-performance trampolines, run parkour obstacles and a walking wall, and try the rubber twister and interactive jump.

There are also 17-meter slides, climbing frames, water slides, a cannon shooter and sledding on artificial grass. It is built for kids through teens, and adults can jump too.

Danubiana is a modern art museum set out in the middle of the Danube, about 20 km south of central Bratislava. Around the building, a 12,000 m² sculpture park holds 60 works, including Danube Wings, an 11 m glass mosaic by Peter Pollág.

Inside, the galleries host changing exhibitions. A rooftop garden looks over the river, and cruise ships pass a few meters from the café terrace.

AHOY! Danube is a river kids follow on foot through BIBIANA's rooms. The route starts on the second floor and flows downward, past a boat deck, a tunnel of giant fish and stops along the Danube from Roman times to today.

Kids tie a sailor's knot, pass through a lock and solve tasks, and those who finish can earn the title of little Danube captain.

A hands-on crafting session at Ekocentrum Čunovo, built around nature themes. Tree Diaries looks at trees, and Magic of Night Butterflies turns to the moths that come out after dark.

It suits kids who like making things with their hands and are curious about the natural world, and it makes an easy indoor outing for a weekend in late fall.

A Little Fat Fairy, a Dwarf, a Little Fish with a cold, a Big Pig and a Dirty Rabbit make up a world of toys that gently pokes fun at very human quirks.

Their short stories ask how to tell someone an unpleasant truth without hurting them, and how to hear one. Told with a child's logic, it fits kids who are learning to handle anger and take criticism.