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True and Bartleby are in the Nurture app. We've partnered with Guru Studio to bring True and the Rainbow Kingdom into the Nurtureverse as interactive stories your child can play.
For a lot of families, True is already a familiar face. Since launching on Netflix in 2017, the show has grown into three seasons and 29 episodes, earned a Daytime Emmy nomination, and built a following of families who tune in for a specific reason: True doesn't panic when something goes wrong. She looks closer. Based on the artwork of FriendsWithYou and executive produced by Pharrell Williams, the series follows True and her best friend Bartleby, a cat who panics first and figures it out second, as they help the citizens of the Rainbow Kingdom work through problems that start out looking impossible.
Her world runs on a single idea: any big, messy problem is really a handful of small ones waiting to be spotted. Kids learn by looking closer and trying a fix to see what happens.
That's why True fits Nurture's interactive stories so well. In the Nurture app, your child joins True and Bartleby inside the story. At key moments the story stops and asks them to put on their own trouble goggles alongside True and find each small problem before anyone fixes it.
Play True and the Rainbow Kingdom x Nurture Now
The games give kids practice at breaking a big problem into smaller parts and then choosing the right fix for each one, following the same three steps True uses every episode: see the big problem, break it into smaller problems, solve each one. Those are hard skills to sit down and teach directly, and a story your child is already invested in is a good place to practice them.
Open-ended and low-pressure, so kids figure things out by poking around rather than being told what to do. This is the first of several True and the Rainbow Kingdom adventures coming to Nurture.
"Problem-solving, critical thinking, and staying steady when things go wrong are the skills we hear caregivers worry about most, and there aren't many engaging ways for a four-year-old to practice them. That's what we built Nurture to do: give kids room to break down something complicated, work through a setback a step at a time, and come out of it trusting their own process." Roger Egan, Co-Founder and CEO of Nurture
"Our adventures build upon engaging storytelling with meaningful interactivity. Kids watch True and Bartleby run into a problem, then they're the ones who have to break it down and solve it," explains Nurture Co-Founders and Co-Chief Creative Officers Scott Stewart and Julie Stewart , known for creating global preschool shows for Disney and CBeebies, in addition to developing and producing kids' content for Sesame Workshop, LEGO, and Netflix. "Kids are invited right into the story. Their goal is not to be correct on the first try, but to see the big problem, break it into pieces, and solve each one, the best way to learn."
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True's World Was Already About This
Every character in True's world models a different skill:
- True stays calm and curious, and breaks big worries into small, manageable steps.
- Bartleby panics first, which shows kids it's okay to feel overwhelmed before you work out what to do.
- The Wishes (Glu-bu, Cu-biggly, Joiner, and friends) are each a specific solution suited to a specific kind of problem.
🌟 Meet the Adventure: Hino Tari Havoc!
The first adventure is Hino Tari Havoc! Kids join True and Bartleby as they ferry three rare Hino Tari eggs down the Rainbow Kingdom river to reunite them with their moms. The trip goes wrong fast. The boat hits a rock and springs a leak, the eggs bounce loose onto the roof, and the steering wheel snaps clean off.
With your child's help, True and Bartleby:
- Put on their trouble goggles to find the three small problems hiding inside one big mess
- Call on Glu-bu to seal the leak
- Call on Cu-biggly to rescue the eggs from the roof
- Call on Joiner to fix the broken steering wheel
- Steer the boat safely to shore with their Nurture Buddy (the player!)
- Reunite the Hino Tari eggs with their moms in a joyful finale
It's paced so kids can slow down and work through one piece at a time, with the gentle humor that's made the show a favorite with families worldwide.
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🧩 What Kids Learn in Hino Tari Havoc!
Problem decomposition. One big, overwhelming problem is usually a few smaller ones, and spotting them is the first step to solving them.
Critical thinking. Matching the right tool to each small problem, one at a time.
Calm under pressure. Meeting chaos with curiosity, and trusting that each piece can be handled in turn.
Kids also watch their own choices move the story forward, which does a lot for confidence.
The 3 Steps Kids Ages 4–7 Need to Solve Big Problems
Most advice for kids this age boils down to "encourage them to think it through," which isn't a method a four-year-old can actually use. True's trouble goggles moment is a simpler, age-appropriate version of the same idea, broken into three steps:
- See the big problem. Name what's wrong, out loud, without trying to fix it yet.
- Break it into smaller problems. Ask what's actually going on inside the big one. In Hino Tari Havoc!, that's the leak, the eggs, and the wheel.
- Solve each small problem one at a time. Pick one piece, fix it, then move to the next.
This isn't a Nurture-branded framework. It's the same approach child development researchers point to and the one True dramatizes every time something goes wrong in the Rainbow Kingdom. We just think she's the best worked example currently on a screen for this age group.
Telling your child what to do isn't the same as teaching them how to figure it out. The skill comes from practice, in a context that feels safe enough to try, fail, and try again. If you want a deeper walk-through of the same 3-step approach with everyday scenarios you can use at home tonight, we've written a full guide to teaching kids critical thinking skills.
Why These Skills Matter, and Why Play Teaches Them Well
Ages 4 to 7 is when kids start forming their problem-solving habits and building confidence in their own ideas. It's also when they can learn that a big problem stops being scary once you know how to take it apart. Growth mindset is the foundation for problem-solving at this age, since kids need to believe a hard problem is workable before they'll try to break it down at all.
Kids who get that practice tend to:
- Meet a challenge with openness instead of overwhelm
- Break something complicated into steps they can actually act on
Those habits hold up as kids get older. Knowing how to think through something unfamiliar outlasts knowing any particular fact. It also helps to have a plan for what to do when your child gets overwhelmed before they can even start thinking, since that's usually the real blocker, not the problem itself.
You have a part in this too. Sit next to your child and ask what they'd try first, or which Wish they'd call on. It turns the game into a conversation. Looking for more digital games that build this specific skill? We keep an updated list, with True's adventure alongside a few others worth trying.
🎮 Play Hino Tari Havoc! Today
Play the new True and the Rainbow Kingdom adventure in the Nurture app today, and stay tuned for more on the way.
