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Reading

Reading games and read-along stories, in two languages

Letter shapes and the sounds they make, and real picture books read aloud with questions waiting at the end.

  • Free, with nothing to buy and no premium tier
  • No ads, no trackers, no analytics of any kind
  • No account needed to play
  • Works offline, built for the family iPad
  • Every line is spoken aloud, in English and Spanish

How it works

Real books, not filler text

Story Time does not generate stories. Every book in it is a published picture book by a named author and illustrator, licensed openly so it can be given away, and imported one at a time after somebody has actually read it. That is a slower way to build a library and a much better one: children can tell the difference between a story written by a person and a story assembled out of words.

Each book is read aloud page by page, at a pace a child can follow, and a few comprehension questions come afterward rather than interrupting. A child who cannot read yet can still finish a book and still answer questions about it.

Letter Hunt runs alongside it: the shape of a letter, the sound it makes, and the words that start with it, in whichever language your child is playing in.

The story reader on page one of The Rabbit Who Became a Chef, with the illustration above the sentence and the word being spoken highlighted.

The two reading activities

Letter Hunt

Preschool to 2nd grade

Letter shapes and the sounds they make, spoken aloud, in whichever language the child is playing in.

Story Time

Preschool to 5th grade

Real published picture books, read aloud page by page, with a few questions once the story is done.

Where the books come from

StoryWeaver, credited properly

The picture books come from StoryWeaver, an open library run by Pratham Books, and they are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. That license is why they can be here for free, and it comes with an obligation: credit the people who made them. So every book in Joya ends on its own credits page. Author, illustrator, translator, publisher, the license itself, and a link back to the original on StoryWeaver, before a single question is asked.

The Spanish story shelf, headed Biblioteca de cuentos, with two picture book covers.

Free to play, anywhere

No sign-up, no download, no card. Add your kids' first names and start.

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