A free tool from Distinction

Build a reading ladder

This gives you a prompt to paste into any AI assistant, plus search phrases for your own library and bookshop.

It does not recommend titles. Books go out of print and every publisher already has a list, so the useful thing here is the shape of the ladder, not our opinion of the books.

This is the free version, and it is generic on purpose. The paid version is a different thing entirely.

Step 1

About your child

How old are they?
Already good at

Pick as many as you like.

Wants to get better at

Pick as many as you like.

Step 2

How they read now

Reading confidence
Formats that work for them

Pick as many as you like.

Step 3

Where you are

How far can you go?

This tool forgets. Distinction remembers.

This is the simple version. It works from the six things you just clicked, it runs entirely inside your browser, and the moment you close this tab it is gone.

Distinction works from everything in your child's record rather than six buttons, and it keeps what you find. A year from now, the thing your child chose today is still there, dated, with what they actually did about it.

Nothing you type here is sent anywhere. No account, no cookies, no tracking. This page cannot save anything, which is rather the point.