Reading Apps

Listening to audio books is great for young readers, struggling readers and readers of all ages. Studies show that students can attain significantly higher reading achievement by adding a listening component to methods used for teaching reading. Specifically, listening is an effective and natural way to increase a child's vocabulary (i.e. oral language precedes written language), which provides a basis and context for comprehension. Alongside decoding, comprehension is critical to becoming a skilled reader. And, oh yeah, kids love listening to stories.

Over 500 Amazing Stories and New Stories Every Weekday means that Storytime has Never Been Easier!

Booksy is a learning-to-read platform for young kids. It is designed from the ground up to help young children, Pre-K through 2nd grade, practice and develop their reading skills.

One More Story is an interactive online library of the best children's illustrated literature. An engaging tool for pre-readers, emerging readers, and English language learners, One More Story empowers children and helps them develop their love of literacy through its unique scaffolding process. Students can listen and follow along with highlighted text as a story is read to them, or read it themselves in the I Can Read It mode, clicking on words to hear them read aloud.

Learn with Homer is designed by literacy experts for children ages 3–6. The program is based on the best scientific research on how children learn. Our award-winning program covers the key skills recommended by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonological processing, phonics for reading and spelling, fluency, and comprehension.

News-O-Matic covers relevant news of the day in an engaging way, exploring its many facets through images, maps, videos and games. Whether your interest is sports, science, world news, or wacky events, News-O-Matic delivers what’s making the news! It offers a window to the world and beyond helping our readers become global citizens!

In this sequel to the best-selling, chart-topping Monster at the End of This Book app, Grover invents giggle-worthy ways to prevent readers from getting closer to another monster hiding at the end of this story. But an ever-curious Elmo asks for your help to slip pastGrover every time.

Young readers will delight in the very funny push-and-pull dynamic of this interactive story. And parents will know thattheir little monsters are reading, laughing, and learning with trusted, beloved Sesame Street characters.

Built with groundbreaking technology and bursting with innovative activities woven right into the story, Another Monster at the End of This Book will provide hours of tap-happy fun for kids (and grown-ups!) of all ages.

The Monster at the End of This Book enhances the classic Sesame Street book with a completely immersive experience that draws children right into the story. Join lovable, furry old Grover as he tries his very hardest to tie down pages and build brick walls— all to keep readers away from the monster at the end of this book. The all-time favorite you loved as a child comes alive for today’s young readers with interactive play, plus touch-point animation.

The popular Milo series is back- this time on an adventure to the park in an interactive storybook. Milo and his friends, Melvin and Maggie, will keep any child interested in this book with interactive features on every page and the ability to record their own story. Created by the licensed Speech-Language Pathologist that brought you five other language apps, to build storytelling and narrative skills.

The National Geographic Kids Ultimate Dinopedia is the most complete, most beautiful, and most up-to-date look at the dinosaur world. It bursts with astonishing artwork. It amazes with fantastic facts. It captures the newest, coolest paleontology. Meet the smallest, largest, fastest, and slowest dinosaurs known. Find out the most famous dinosaur mistakes. Judge winners in the greatest dinosaur battles of all time, and discover much more!

Owney was a scruffy mutt who became a regular fixture at the Albany, New York, post office in 1888. Owney loved the mail! Owney began to ride with the bags on Railway Post Office (RPO) train cars across the state . . . and then the country! In 1895 Owney even made an around-the-world trip. Owney has been preserved and is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, DC.

"Nighty Night!" is the perfect App for a daily go-to-sleep ritual with sweet music and elegant narration. All around the house the lights go out, and even the animals in the barn are tired. But who puts them to bed? Who turns out the lights in their stalls? That is the task for small children aged 1-4. Watching all the animals go to sleep is a lovely way to set the mood for bedtime.

A cute animated story about a little girl named Bella and her dreams. Watch Bella flying through clouds, jumping like a frog and being a slippery, slimy slug as she talks us through the world of her imagination.

Help Bartleby in his journey to find new buttons for his collection! Flip switches, press buttons, slide sliders, rotate the ipad, turn in a circle, and carefully read along in this "digital pop-up book" adventure. Designed for parent-led reading for the young child and as a stand-alone story for the older child. This book is a short bed-time story that engages the child in following instructions through reinforced interaction and tactile response - just like a pop-up book!

Join Bartleby on his new adventure to find the Button at the Bottom of the Sea! Meet new characters and visit some old ones too! Like Volume 1, the Far Away Island, Bartleby is on a mission to add buttons to his growing collection. Push buttons, switch switches, tap tubes, turn knobs, rotate the iPad and iPhone to help Bartleby in his journey! Remember, every page is a puzzle that must be solved! So pay close attention to the text and hints Bartleby gives you!

“Don’t Let the Pigeon Run This App!” lets you create your own Pigeon stories with your pal, Mo Willems. Just follow as the Bus Driver asks you for your ideas—then shake the Pigeon. Your story is ready! Sit back and enjoy the show. Once you’re finished, try it again…and again. You can make as many silly stories as you want.

oin 8 year old Oliver T. Baker, as he shows you exactly why Trees are Best (and diggers are not), in this fully interactive picture book exploring the beauty and wonder of trees.

Take a trip through the jungle and meet all your favourite animals in this exciting new app with animations, sound effects and music. Choose to read the rollicking jungle romp yourself, or hear it read aloud. Little ones will love joining in with the animal sound effects and finding the touch-activated animations on each screen. This app comes complete with a simple puzzle game that reinforces learning. Guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment!

Join Douglas on his search for the perfect hug in this exciting new app with animations, sound effects and music.

JUST MOO IT! Sandra Boynton’s best-selling book of all time comes alive with sound and movement and gloriously unpredictable interactivity. The wryly inventive Moo, Baa, La La La! digital book app will intrigue and amuse little kids and big people alike, and perhaps even elicit an appreciative snort from the occasional uninvited rhinoceros.

Stomp your feet! Clap your hands! Everybody ready for a BARNYARD DANCE! Loud Crow Interactive and Boynton Moo Media proudly present a terrifically interactive musical version of Sandra Boynton’s much-adored board book. Cows and ducks and little kids rejoice!