The 12 Storytelling Apps That Will Read Books to Your Kids For You

Although Audible is a great audiobooks app for all, its extensive library of children's books makes it awesome for little listeners, too. The app has a curated selection of audiobooks for kids ages 13 and under, specifically.

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Additionally, Audible has launched Audible Stories, a completely free streaming site that offers content that's engaging, entertaining, and educational for kids, teens, and families.

Sparkle Stories has over 1,200 original stories for kids ages 3 through 12. Its kindness-centered stories are recorded slowly so that kids don't miss anything.

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Wonderscope is a different kind of storytelling app, as it uses augmented reality (AR) to transform your home (or whatever is in the space in front of your phone's camera) into an extraordinary story. According to its app page, "Through your Wonderscope, you can see the story take place all around you, whether you open the app in your room or outdoors. Read your lines aloud to engage with and talk to characters, and help them solve problems along the way." Plus, it's free until the end of the school year!

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With Bedtime Stories, your kids can actual listen to stories before bed, but its new feature also makes it so you and your kids can go through "Storytelling School" to learn how to become better storytellers.

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With Chatterpix, kids can make anything "chatter" by uploading a photo and drawing a mouth somewhere on the photo. Even though it's not exclusively a storytelling app, using it can be a fun way to have kids practice reading aloud by creating a recording of a favorite book.

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With the Dr. Seuss Treasury Kids Books app, kids can listen to Dr. Seuss's award-winning books narrated with music and sound effects.

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With Lipa Theater, kids can tell stories with puppets of different themes like the Wild West, a fairy tale castle, "Life on Mars," and pirates.

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With Novel Effect, kids and parents can read hundreds of books with custom audio that includes music, sound effects, and character voices that match each story.

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The Imagistory app allows you to bring your child's imagination to life through creating and recording stories. The app provides wordless picture books, and it's up to you and the kids to create the story that goes with the pages. Record them and play them back over and over, or share them with family and friends!

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One More Story wants to inspire a love of reading in all kids with its library of picture books that are read aloud through the app. Kids can listen to the books read out automatically or read themselves with its "I Can Read It" mode.

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Your kids' favorite books are all on Story Mouse, where they're read with tons of character and complemented by colorful illustrations.

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