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Teach Monster: Reading for Fun vs Little Stories: Bedtime Books Usage & Stats

From the charity behind the award-winning Teach Your Monster to Read comes Teach Monster – Reading For Fun, a brand new game that encourages kids to have fun and enjoy reading! Designed with experts from the UK’s Roehampton University to get kids reading more, Teach Monster – Reading For Fun inspires kids to explore a magical village full of fascinating facts and spellbinding stories. Customise your own monster, make friends with colourful characters and collect over 70 free ebooks courtesy of Usborne, Okido, Otter-Barry and more. The game encourages children of all ages to read for pleasure and is perfect to play at home or school, alongside Teach Your Monster to Read or on its own. There are hours of reading fun, from following signposts and reading aloud with Goldspear the librarian, to discovering books which help you bake delicious cakes and find treasure. It’s up to you to choose what to explore and when, but hurry, the villagers need your help. Your monster must use all its wisdom, skill and bravery to stop the book-eating goblin from causing chaos in the village and eating all the books! WHY READING FOR FUN? • Boost your child’s reading confidence • Develop your child’s empathy, as they put themselves in different characters’ shoes and develop an understanding of the wider world • Improve your child’s skills in reading for different purposes, from recipes, to signposts and instructions • Read books with friends. Choose brand new books, or re-read old favorites • Create positive screen time for children in a fun environment • Collect over 70 brilliant free ebooks from Usborne, Okido, Otter-Barry and more. Reading for pleasure is a proven method to transform literacy skills and academic performance in children. The pedagogy of reading for pleasure within this game has been developed in close collaboration with educational experts from the UK’s Roehampton University. BE PART OF A READING COMMUNITY • Make friends and help out the villagers with quests that require reading • Pop into the village library to read along with Goldspear, Coco and more • Read different kinds of texts, from signposts and instructions to entire fiction and non-fiction books • Complete jobs to get rewarded with books for your monster’s bookshelf • Solve challenges and follow the story as it unfolds, read recipes to make treats, or go on quests to overcome the book-eating goblin. • Discover new authors, poems, stories and a series of children’s books that you’ll love. Created by Teach Your Monster, Reading for Fun is part of The Usborne Foundation, a charity founded by children’s publisher, Peter Usborne MBE. Harnessing research, design and technology, Teach Your Monster is a non-profit organisation that creates playful media to address issues from literacy to health. What are you waiting for? Take your monster on an epic reading adventure today!

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Little Stories: Bedtime Books

The “Little Stories” series is a collection of fairy tales in which your kid plays the main role. It's quite simple – just enter your kid's name and gender into the settings window and enjoy reading fairy tales about your son or daughter. To make it even cooler, we've added beautiful melodies and wonderful pictures to help you raise your child by giving him or her only positive examples. Moreover, you can also make your own audiobooks! Just spend a few minutes to voice-over the story. Let love and kindness fill your family’s leisure time to make your life and the world around you happier! Why “Little Stories”? • 3000+ pictures • Gender determines the choice of illustrations • 70+ exciting fairy tales so far and more to come • Enchanting music accompanies each story • You can create audiobooks by recording your own voice! • 1st place in the “App For Kids” category of Golden App in 2016! We’d like to tell you more about the process behind creating stories for kids so that you have a better idea about the hard work we put into “Little Stories”. 1) It all begins with searching for an author. He/she can live in any country of the world, but the important thing is that he/she is able to create an interesting and insightful story. Before writing a bedtime story, the author has to read the conditions first. For example, the story may not contain more than 50 scenes (each of which can consist of 146 symbols max.) otherwise the text won’t fit into the app. Once the story has been completed, the next stage can begin. 2) It is now time to create the storyboard. A storyboard is a selection of simple sketches for each of the illustrations of the story. It gives us a better idea about the visual images of the children’s story. 3) Once the storyboard has been approved, we move on to searching for an illustrator. It should be noted that not all styles might be appropriate for a certain bedtime story and, therefore, it’s important to achieve a perfect fit between the story and the illustration style. 4) Meanwhile, the composer creates the melody. Both the story itself and the artist’s illustrations serve as inspiration for the creation of music. The composer also has conditions to meet: the melody must be soothing and prepare children for a good night’s sleep since most often stories are read for bedtime. 5) What’s more, we also translate our stories for kids into other languages. 6) But that’s not the end! It’s important to see how the book for kids looks inside the app. Line breaks should be checked to make sure the text looks nice and neat. This is done by two professionals: the programmer and the tester. 7) Only after this final step do we release the story for kids. This entire process might take anywhere from two to nine months. So, it’s a hard, but interesting, journey! We continuously add new fairy tales to our collection! Fairy tales are designed for kids aged 3+. Follow us on: facebook.com/diveomedia