If you go to App store, you will find out that the number of book apps for babies and toddlers are growing tremendously. It is overwhelming to look through the list, if there is a list. It is hard to decide which one to get, which one will worth the money… I had always hoped to have a place where I can just “borrow” the app for two days, and then decide if I want to buy it or not. Now, I find a place you can do something almost like “borrowing”. PlayTales is now offering a program called “PlayTales Gold”. With a $3.99 subscription, you can have access to hundreds of children’s books on iPAD for a whole month, with new titles every week.
PlayTales offers interactive books for kids 8 and younger. It contains a whole library of books in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese and Japanese. I checked a couple books they have. All books have 3 reading options: ‘Read by Myself’, ‘Read to Me’, and ‘Auto play’. Some books have individual word highlights when reading the book, some don’t. All books have music and simple animations.
Frankly speaking, I am more excited about the concept of “monthly renting” than the books themselves. Kids out-grow those baby books quickly. It is great for the parents to be able to get new books regularly, but do not have to pay for each single book. With $3.99, if you find 2 books you like in the month, it is worth it.
Initial download of the app is free. There are sample books come with the free download. Subscription can be purchased via In-App purchase.
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This looks like something worth looking into!
What a great resource! My daughter would love this.
I have been using this app for free with ads for a few weeks and my daughter loves the e-books but the ads are obnoxious. I think a subscription is looking more and more worth it.
This looks great and like something my children would love!
That is a great idea to borrow books for the month. It sounds like they have a great selection!
I like the “borrowing” idea too.
My daughters would enjoy this because they love to read books on the iPad
Daughter would love this
this is an amazing idea.. with multiple kids.. this makes for easy transition between age groups.
We would love to win this as my son is very into choosing many different books each night to read!
I would love to win because I like having books to read that she cant destroy! lol She does love us reading to her but shes 14 months so she still likes to rip pages or gnaw on them!
That is a fun age. Just make sure don’t let her drop your iPAD! 🙂
I would love to win because my kids (ages 4 and 2) love books. I read to them all the time but these would be great to give this momma a break! 🙂
I would love to win this. We homeschool and it would help us to have extra books at our fingertips. Thanks for the giveaway and review.
It has a lot books and also have several languages, so could be a good resource for a second language too.
I teach English as a Second Language and I’m always looking for good quality educational apps that will help me in teaching my students English.
It would be an interesting tool for the ESL students.
My kids would love this.
It has very diverse book choices. I think most kids will find some thing they like from the books the app offers.
Hi! My daughter is a beginning reader and I have a preschooler who is starting to show interest in reading too! I would love to have this for the iPad to help her out!
Thanks!
This is a perfect reader app for beginner readers. Hope you win.
Hi would love to win this as I work in a kindy room and also looking for quality digital books for the children, which I normally pay for out of my own money 🙂
Hope you win. I always admire teacher for doing that.
Hi.
I would like to win this because my daughter loves ebooks, she enjoyed our free trial of play tales and she would enjoy more a year subscription!
I like that we can read books in many languages even ours.
Thanks for bringing up the multi-language feature. I should really try the Spanish for my son.
I would like to suggest also the following interactive books:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fairy-tales-for-clever-kids/id541579085?l=ru&ls=1&mt=8
My kids love it very much.
My children read about 3 hours a week. Both of them like reading.
I am sure they do! 3 hours is a lot time.
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Thanks for continuing to educate children through current technology, it is the wave of the future. You make sense of it for parents everywhere!
Thanks Melinda. Missed you here. Hope to see you more. Have you downloaded any new apps?
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My child reads 2-3 hours a week, depends on the books.
My son is the same. If it is a book he is really interested in, he will be sitting there reading like a stone.
theses app things are still foreign to me, my son just got an ipod…is this what we’re talking about?
I have a 13, 11, 10, 7 and 4.5 year old and they all love reading…is this something I should be looking into?
Hi Cheri,
I totally understand. I did not get into this app thing long after we got our iPAD… But once I got into this, I realized there are so many good apps, they are really really good!
If you have a iPod, this app will work. Typically you have to pay for each book (count as one app). The neat thing about this app is, it lets you pay $3.99 (typical price for 1-2 book apps) to have access to hundreds books for a month!
If this app thing is new to you, this is the app for you – low cost, great access of hundreds apps to test them out. Now if you enter the Rafflecopter, you have a chance to win a month free accesss. This is an ideal opportunity for a new app user to try it out.
I have to say, the books in this app are for young kids, your 11 and 13 year olds won’t enjoy it, but your 4 and 7 year-olds will like it.
Hope this helps.
Hi, first, I’m glad you popped by my blog so I got to meet you–great info here!
My kids spend a min of 2 hours a week reading, but usually much much more. In summer the reading slows down, we’re outside. But come fall we begin to hibernate and curl up with books much more often. I have 2 children under 8, really like this borrowing app
Thanks for the note Jennifer. It is great your children like reading. You should try enter the Rafflecopter and see if you can win the month free pass! Since you have already left a comment, all you have to do is to enter Rafflecopter. The drawing will be automatic – run by the program in Rafflecopter, if you did not enter your name there, you won’t have a chance to win. Hope you will enter and win – there are 8 of them, and it is very likely you are one of them!
How did I enter the rafflecopter? Shows that I have zero entires….sorry thus system is new for me & not apparent….
See you name for this one. You are in! Hope you win!
my son is in 4th grade. He is required to read 2.5 hours per week as reading asignment. But he usually reads more than that.
Guess all school has certain reading assignment, my son’s school also has weekly reading assignments. I think this is good.
My kids spend at least 2 hours a week reading, many times it’s more than that. Great contest!
I feel the reading habit comes from childhood. It is great your kids read regularly. Mine likes reading too, but it has to be in his interest area. I am trying to get him branch out a little bit … 🙂
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