A bedtime story app, built differently

One story for your child.
One plan for you.

Luna the Ladybug is a bedtime story world for neurodivergent kids ages 3–7 — and, quietly attached to every story, real OT-informed strategies for the parent reading it. The fiction isn't just charming. It's how the help gets in.

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Luna, a warm coral ladybug with a flower crown, flies joyfully past glowing lanterns toward a garden party.
✨ Eureka moments, every night
◆ Every tip cited to published OT & SLP sources
◆ Reviewed by autistic & ADHD adults for tone
◆ Accommodation, never masking — always
◆ One-time purchase, no subscription trap
You already know these nights

The garden party wasn't the problem. It was too much, too loud, too fast.

Luna's stories don't teach your child to be different. They show a ladybug who feels everything intensely — same as your kid — finding her own way through.

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My son melts down at every birthday party ten minutes in, and I never know how to explain it to other parents — or to him.

A parent, on sensory overwhelm
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She goes completely still when a texture is wrong. It's not pickiness. I just wish I had the words for what's happening.

A parent, on food sensitivity
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Bedtime books either ignore this entirely or turn it into a lesson about being brave. I don't want brave. I want understood.

A parent, on why Luna felt different
How Luna actually works

Every story flips into a field guide.

Finish tonight's page, and the app shifts registers — from storybook to something closer to real field notes. Same night, same theme, a different kind of help.

Story Mode · Tuesday

Luna and the Loud Garden Party

Luna covers her ears, overwhelmed, as a loud garden party full of music and lanterns swirls around her.

The lanterns. The drums. The crowd. It's all too much — and Luna's antennae go flat, the story's own signal that she's overwhelmed.

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Parent Hub · Field Notes

Sensory Overwhelm

  • What Luna's stillness maps to in real sensory processing
  • Deep-pressure "heavy work" to steady an overwhelmed nervous system
  • Reading the early signs before a meltdown, not just after
Try tonightA firm, calm hug or weighted blanket for 60 seconds before the room gets loud — not after.
Luna stands upright and joyful as gold stars burst from her head above the word 'Eureka!', surrounded by delighted animal friends on lily pads.
The signature moment

The "Eureka!" is always Luna's own idea.

Gold stars burst from her head the instant she finds her own way through — never a fix an adult hands her. Kids learn to recognize the cue across every story; parents learn it means "this is the coping tool." Agency stays with Luna, always.

Luna, wings wrapped snugly around her, rests held close by Mama Ladybug under string lights and a quiet 'Shhh... Quiet Place' sign.
Never brave. Never alone.

Hard moments end in accommodation — not masking.

A triumphant "she pushed through and rejoined the party" ending is exactly what we won't write. Luna's stories resolve with the quiet log, the wrap, the count — the real thing that helps, not a performance of coping for everyone else's comfort.

Luna sits at a small round table with a bee friend in a cozy treehouse classroom, under a sign that reads 'Be Kind, Be Curious, Be You.'
Identity, not diagnosis

Luna is never a problem to fix.

She's written broadly neurodivergent — relatable across autism, ADHD, sensory processing, and anxiety — because the strategies that help are largely the same. Her traits are who she is, framed with warmth, never as something to correct.

Seven nights, one deliberate sequence

Luna's Week

Not a loose library — a designed rhythm, one theme per night, building toward Sunday's wind-down and handing off cleanly to Monday again.

Monday
New Environments

Luna's first day at leaf school — a fresh-week opener.

Tuesday
Sensory Overwhelm

A loud garden party asks too much, too fast.

Wednesday
Food Sensitivity

A curious, cautious relationship with a new texture.

Thursday
Communication

Luna finds another way to say what she means.

Friday
Transitions

One very last splash before it's time to go home.

Saturday
Big Emotions

A broken routine, a storm — and how it passes.

Sunday
Sleep

The Moon's lullaby, and a quiet close to the week.

Designed for the reader, not around them

The app models the calm it talks about.

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No ads, ever

No feed, no in-app purchases pushed at a five-year-old. Nothing competing for attention at 8pm.

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Big, calm touch targets

Uncluttered layouts, generous spacing, no flashing or strobing — sensory-safe by design, not by accident.

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Offline-first

Bedtime shouldn't depend on wifi. Every story and every tip lives on the device.

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Read-aloud narration

For pre-readers and pre-verbal kids alike — the emotion has to land without requiring words.

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Luna exists because of six years of learning, alongside our own daughter, how much a bedtime story can hold. We wanted something that didn't ask her to be less intense, less sensitive, less herself — just understood. This app is that, plus the practical help we wished someone had handed us at 8pm on a hard night.
— From the Luna team
Not just a cute story

Every strategy is sourced. Every tone is checked.

Two separate editorial passes run on every tip — because clinical accuracy and lived-experience authenticity are different lenses, and neither substitutes for the other.

Track A

Aggregated & cited

Every strategy adapts guidance from published, reputable sources — AOTA, established OT and SLP frameworks — rather than inventing clinical advice. Every tip carries its citation.

Track B

Lived-experience review

Autistic and ADHD adults, and neurodivergent parents, separately review every story and tip for tone — catching "fixing Luna" framing a citation check alone would miss.

Always

A companion, not a replacement

Luna supports — it never replaces — a professional diagnosis or OT/therapy services. We say so plainly, in the app and here.

AOTA Systematic Review of Sensory Interventions Butterfly Hug Protocol Sensory Diet / Sensory Snacks (Harkla) OT Approaches to Food Selectivity Neurodiversity-Affirming Parenting & Care
Tonight's story is waiting

Give tomorrow's you the plan tonight's you needed.

Luna the Ladybug — one story, one matched set of real strategies, every night of the week.

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