About Peabody
Peabody is a free reading and learning site for kids. Aaron, a dad in Colorado, makes it for his own children and for yours. This page says who is behind it, how its pages are made, what AI does in that, and where to write when something is wrong.
Who makes Peabody
Hi, I’m Aaron. I’m a dad in Colorado.
Like a lot of parents, I’ve walked out of a teacher conference and tried to fix everything in one weekend. Long sessions. It didn’t work. Kids can’t do long sessions. What they can do is a little, every day, and that turns out to be the hard part for a busy family.
So I built Peabody for my own kids. They tell it what the story should be about: a dragon, an ice monster, zombies, always zombies.
More about Aaron, and everything he has written for Peabody, is on his author page, and the story of why he built it is in I built Peabody for my own kids.
What Peabody is, and is not
- Stories written at a child's own reading level, learning games, printable reading passages and worksheets, and guides for parents and teachers.
- Free through the end of 2026, with no ads on the site. What other free kids' sites load is on the ad check, with Peabody measured the same way.
- A learning app, not an assessment, a diagnosis or medical advice. If you are worried about a child's reading or health, talk to their teacher or doctor.
How AI is used
Peabody uses AI to write stories at the right level, to help write and research its pages, and to answer a child's questions inside rules the code enforces. What it does with a child's words, rule by rule, is on how Peabody uses AI, and the research behind its practice rules is on the science page. When a page says “written with help from AI”, that is exactly what happened: a model drafted it from the sources listed, and the facts in it can still be wrong. The notes below say which kind of page is which.
How each kind of page is made
- Library stories
- Written by Peabody's story engine, an AI model, to this reading level's word and sentence limits. A sample of stories is read again by a second model against the same rules. Classics are retold from public-domain originals.
- Reading passages and worksheets
- The passage is a story from Peabody's library, written or retold to this reading level, and its questions and answer key come with it. Peabody is a learning app, not an assessment.
- Games
- Peabody built this game. The description was written with help from AI from the game's own code, and checked against it.
- The software directory
- Researched by Peabody with help from AI, from each maker's own pages, linked and dated. Peabody has no ads and no affiliate links, so no listing is paid for, and it does not score the products it lists.
- Lists and the Big Index
- Gathered by Peabody with help from AI from the sources each entry links to, using the rule stated at the top of the list. Competitors are listed with the rest.
- Book, song and classroom lists
- Titles, authors and years are copied from the sources named in the list's note, with prices read in October 2026. Written with help from AI. There are no affiliate links.
- The Kitchen
- Recipes and safety notes were written by Peabody with help from AI. The safety rules follow the guidance below. Sources: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (eatright.org), USDA Team Nutrition, American Academy of Pediatrics (healthychildren.org), FDA food safety, CDC.
- The Magic Shop
- The methods are classic, widely published effects, and the step-by-step wording is Peabody's, written with help from AI. Every number trick was run on every possible input to prove it works. Small parts and balloons follow pediatric choking guidance. Sources: American Academy of Pediatrics (healthychildren.org), U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- The Body
- Written by Peabody with help from AI for ages 5 to 12, with every number rounded and hedged and the figures checked against the hospital and health-agency pages below. Reproductive health and puberty are left out on purpose. Sources: KidsHealth, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, MedlinePlus (NIH), American Heart Association, American Red Cross.
- The Gym
- Written by Peabody with help from AI around national activity guidance for children, with no barbells. Peabody is not medical advice: ask a doctor before starting if a child has a health condition. Sources: Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (health.gov), CDC, NSCA youth resistance training position statement, SHAPE America.
- Space
- Numbers come from NASA's planetary fact sheets, and the explanations were written by Peabody with help from AI. Sources: NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, planetary fact sheets.
- Animals
- Every number comes from a named page: Wikidata (free to reuse) where its statement has a reference, then US government pages (NOAA Fisheries, the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service), then the Smithsonian's National Zoo; each was checked against the live page on the day shown. The words and the drawings are Peabody's own, written with help from AI. Sources: Wikidata, NOAA Fisheries species directory, National Park Service.
- The Workshop
- Written by Peabody with help from AI. Anything with magnets, balloons or small parts follows the safety guidance below, and a grown-up does the steps that need one. Sources: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, American Academy of Pediatrics (healthychildren.org).
- Science fair
- Written by Peabody with help from AI, over classic kitchen and backyard experiments nobody owns. The safety rules are summarised from the school rule sets below, and every project is checked against them in code before it can be shown. Sources: UNM STEM-H Center, K–5 research project rules, Society for Science, ISEF rules, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- Timers
- Built by Peabody. How other free web timers handle ads, tracking and features was checked in a browser on 29 October 2026.
- Questions
- Written for kids by Peabody with help from AI.
- Quizzes
- Written by Peabody with help from AI. Nothing you answer is stored, sent or tracked. The reading each result points to is linked below the quiz.
- Nature and science answers
- Written by Peabody with help from AI, from public science references and Peabody's own library.
- Pet care
- Written by Peabody with help from AI from veterinary and animal-welfare pages. Not a vet's advice: for a sick or hurt animal, call a vet. Sources: ASPCA, American Veterinary Medical Association, Merck Veterinary Manual.
- Book series in order
- Series order and titles are copied from the publisher's and the library's own lists, with help from AI, and dated.
- Words that start with
- The words come from Peabody's own stories and word banks at each reading level.
- Activity Book
- Built by Peabody. The description was written with help from AI from how the page actually works.
How products and companies are checked
Facts about another company come from that company's own pages, linked and dated on the page, and are not repeated from anywhere else. Peabody does not score the products it lists, does not rank itself, and lists competitors beside its own. The rubric is on the compare page. A browser check loads a site the way a child would see it and lists the ads and trackers that appear; the results are on the ad check. A browser check is not a hands-on test, and each page says which one it is.
Report a mistake
Write to aaron@peabody.kids with the page's address and what is wrong. Peabody checks the claim again against the source, fixes it as soon as it can, and changes the “checked” date on the page when it has. Privacy questions go to the same place; the policy is on the privacy page.