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Theseus & Romulus: A Plutarch Toddler Book
The two cities the whole world remembers, and the very first time your child meets the boys who built the boy who walked into a dark maze and beat the monster at its heart, and the baby who should have drowned in a river and was saved by a wolf.
These are two true-old stories, told as simply as a lap and a bedtime allow. A maze is so twisting that no one who walks in can find the way out, and one clever boy solves it with nothing but a ball of thread. Two helpless babies are left by a river, and a mother wolf lies down and keeps them warm as if they were her own. One boy is clever. One boy is brave and open-hearted. Your toddler does not need a single date or battle to feel the difference between them, and that felt difference is the whole point.
Your child meets Theseus and Romulus years before a classroom will, not as a lesson but as a story they already love by the time anyone asks them to study it. One found his way through the dark with a single thread. The other built a city and opened its gates to everyone. The names land early, the way the best names do, and they stay.
Ages 0 to 4 · 28 pages · about 340 words · a cut-paper collage illustration on every page · read-aloud.
A note for parents. Gentle by design. The Minotaur is a soft, storybook puzzle-creature, not a monster that frightens, and the wolf is a kind and motherly one. No danger lands at this age. The hard parts of these two lives wait for the older books in the series.
Part of the nüNERD Learning System. At 0–2, your child hears your voice, sees the pictures, and absorbs more than either of you realizes. At 2–4, they start catching the the brave boy, the kind wolf, the two great cities. Every Plutarch pair comes at four reading levels, each built for how children actually think at that stage.
Also available for Ages 3–7 (A Plutarch Picture Book), Ages 6–10 (A Plutarch Chapter Book), and Ages 10–14 (A Plutarch Prep Book).
These are two true-old stories, told as simply as a lap and a bedtime allow. A maze is so twisting that no one who walks in can find the way out, and one clever boy solves it with nothing but a ball of thread. Two helpless babies are left by a river, and a mother wolf lies down and keeps them warm as if they were her own. One boy is clever. One boy is brave and open-hearted. Your toddler does not need a single date or battle to feel the difference between them, and that felt difference is the whole point.
Your child meets Theseus and Romulus years before a classroom will, not as a lesson but as a story they already love by the time anyone asks them to study it. One found his way through the dark with a single thread. The other built a city and opened its gates to everyone. The names land early, the way the best names do, and they stay.
Ages 0 to 4 · 28 pages · about 340 words · a cut-paper collage illustration on every page · read-aloud.
A note for parents. Gentle by design. The Minotaur is a soft, storybook puzzle-creature, not a monster that frightens, and the wolf is a kind and motherly one. No danger lands at this age. The hard parts of these two lives wait for the older books in the series.
Part of the nüNERD Learning System. At 0–2, your child hears your voice, sees the pictures, and absorbs more than either of you realizes. At 2–4, they start catching the the brave boy, the kind wolf, the two great cities. Every Plutarch pair comes at four reading levels, each built for how children actually think at that stage.
Also available for Ages 3–7 (A Plutarch Picture Book), Ages 6–10 (A Plutarch Chapter Book), and Ages 10–14 (A Plutarch Prep Book).
28 pages, Paperback
Published June 27, 2026
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