✦ Book One Out Now
Romeo and his best friend Buddy turn couch cushions into lava-crossing stepping stones and the coffee table into a pirate ship — no screen required.
🚩 There are countless ways to spend an afternoon. Only one of them ends with a sea monster.
Put the tablet down and look around. Any couch cushion can become a stepping stone over bubbling lava.
The coffee table becomes a pirate ship. The curtains become jungle vines. You decide the rules.
With Buddy tucked under one arm, Romeo faces down sea monsters and sails home in time for dinner.
✦ Publish Stress-Free Play
Every adventure in this book started the exact same way: a phone left on the counter, and a boy who decided the floor was lava instead. That's the whole trick.
✦ Meet the Explorer
I've got wild curly hair, a laugh that rattles the windows, and I ask "why" about absolutely everything. My best friend Buddy goes wherever I go — to school, to Grandma's, on car trips, and straight into the middle of every adventure I can dream up.
I used to spend my afternoons staring at a screen. Now I spend them crossing lava floors, sailing pirate ships, and staring down sea monsters. Wanna come?
✦ Meet the Sidekick
Floppy ears, a worn-out nose, and one thing I'm very good at: never leaving Romeo's side. I've been held so much my fur is flat on one side — Romeo's side, obviously.
I don't say much. But when the lava starts bubbling, I'm the first one Romeo grabs.
The Lava Floor
Cushion stepping-stones over bubbling carpet.
The Curtain Jungle
Vines, boulders, one suspicious houseplant.
The Deep Sea
A ten-tentacled monster, not so scary.
The Pirate Ship
Coffee table deck, captain's orders only.
★★★★★
"My son asked to 'play lava floor' every single day after we read this. He hasn't asked for the tablet once."
— A very happy parent
✦ Free Download
Not ready to buy the book yet? Grab our free printable and try your first screen-free adventure tonight.
✓ A printable "Floor is Lava" activity card
✓ A Romeo & Buddy coloring page
✓ 3 imagination prompts to use anywhere