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Kids Stories

Twenty-one illustrated stories that read themselves aloud, page by page, and know when to stop.

Ages 2–7 · iPhone, iPad and Android

A picture book that reads itself aloud

Each story runs a few minutes, narrated page by page, with every word lighting up as it is read.

  • The library: The Animal Parade with a Listen button, age filters, and new stories this week

    The library, sorted by age, with something new each week.

  • A story page from Cinderella, with the word stepmother lit as it is read

    Every word lights up as it is spoken.

  • A dark screen with a moon and the words Goodnight. Stories are done for tonight

    At bedtime the screen fades to black and stays there.

How it reads

It ends on purpose

In the evening the app turns to bedtime on its own. When the last page is done the screen fades slowly to black and stays there. Nothing plays next.

Read along, word by word

A child who is not reading yet still follows the line, and a child who is starting to read has something to follow.

Some stories ask you to move

Thirteen of the twenty-one pause and ask your child to do something: lift your knees high, clap to turn on the light. The other eight play straight through.

A door for grown-ups

Settings, the subscription, and anything that leaves the app sit behind a parent gate a child cannot pass by accident.

One story at a time

We think a screen should earn its place. The app is built for one story at a time, ideally with you beside them.

There are no ads, no autoplay, no feed, and nothing designed to keep anybody watching.

Information

Ages
2–7
Works on
iPhone, iPad and Android
Available
On the App Store and Google Play
In the stores as
Montessori Stories: Read Aloud
Stories
21
Stories that ask your child to move
13
Made by
Lanse
Narrated in
Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese