Suggestions from readers

How a child proposes a fix to a book, and how you approve it.

A Reader cannot edit a book directly — but a child reading a page is often the first person to notice that its text is wrong. Suggest edit lets them propose the fix.

Making one

A child can suggest from two places: the Reading screen, where they spotted the problem, and the Book Editor — Suggest this page's text for the words on a page, Suggest book details for the title, author or summary. Both ask for the proposed wording and, optionally, a reason. On book details, anything left blank keeps its current value.

Approving one

Suggestions queue on the Suggestions inbox menu item, which opens a page headed Suggested edits. Family Managers and Parents see two lists — Page text and Book details — each with Approve and Reject. Approving applies the change to the book, and either way the child is told the outcome.

Whether that reaches you as a push notification is your own choice, under Settings → Notifications → Edit suggestions.

Following your own

The same screen has My suggestions, and everybody has it, including the parent who does the approving. Each one shows where it got to: Waiting for review, Approved, Declined, Withdrawn, or Superseded where the text moved on underneath it. A Reader can Withdraw one that is still waiting.

Asking to skip a word is somewhere else

A child tapping Ask to skip this word on a spelling or word-list word is not making a suggestion, and it will not appear here. Those are approved in place, on the Spelling and Word lists screens, under Skip requests. See Spelling practice and Word lists.