EP 123Ages 4-10

Lovalina and the Heart Shaped Road

A screen-free audio story about Lovalina, a Goop who loves everyone a little too fast. Set in Slovenia.

Cover art for Lovalina and the Heart Shaped Road
Play the story · 34:49
Read by Maria Calanchini

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The story

Lovalina loves everyone and everything a little too fast, and she never sees danger. On a walk up the mysterious step trail with Hissyfit, she presses a paper heart to a giant redwood, and a tiny door swallows her up.

A gust of wind drops her in a valley in Slovenia, where a flock of runaway sheep is being chased by brown bears. To reach the safety of the heart shaped road, she has to decide who she can trust.

The real place: Slovenia

Three things to tell your kid after the story.

  1. 1Slovenia has a real heart shaped road that curves through green vineyards in the hills of the northeast.
  2. 2Slovenia is home to many wild brown bears, which live in its thick forests.
  3. 3More than half of Slovenia is covered in forest, making it one of the greenest countries in Europe.

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