iStorytime iPhone App

Posted on Dec 7, 2010 by 4 Comments
iStorytime iPhone App

I’ve written before here on Smart Mom Picks about how amazed I am at how attached people are to their iPhones.

What’s more amazing to me is that we appear to be raising a generation of children that have iPhone addictions.

I see it a lot when I’m out and about at my children’s activities. Moms with young toddlers come in and, desperate for anything to amuse their child while the older sibling is playing baseball or taking a music lesson, throw the iPhone in the kid’s hands.

Kids love the things. And the kids are pretty darn adept at using the iPhones, too.

 A mom’s gotta do what a mom’s gotta do. Let’s just hope that whatever is on the iPhone when the kid gets it is something kid-friendly and not a video tutorial on sexting.

The iStorytime apps for iPhones and iPads looks like a good place to start.

There are a lot of story apps out there, I’m sure. This one is specifically designed for preschoolers.

iStorytime has a large range of illustrated stories to entertain a child for short or long periods. Navigation is automatic so it’s easy for a toddler to use. There are options to have no narration, kid’s voice narration or adult narration, which is pretty cool.

You can set options for the pages to turn manually or automatically, and the onscreen text assists with reading as well.

The selection of books is pretty decent. iStorytime has a range of classics, like Peter Pan and Robin Hood.

iStorytime also has books featuring current licensed characters, like Shrek and How to Train Your Dragon.

The stories range in price from .99 to $2.99. How much is a moment’s peace while you finish grocery shopping worth to a mom, anyway?

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Comments

  • Julie C.

    I love this, it’s like being able to magically pull out a library of book selections out of your purse. (Well I own a Kindle and that’s how it makes me feel, anyway.)

    I do worry that will the plethora of story-and-media applications rapidly becoming available everywhere that the quality of the literature may suffer. I don’t think kids should have to read crummy stories just because they are kids — in fact, I think it’s most important for children to get the best quality to stimulate and encourage them to become life-long readers.

    What do you think?

  • Pinchus Rose.

    Why are kids stories crummy at all? Kids do get to read kids stories, just because they are kids, in my (very humble :) ) opinion. As they grow, they get the better stuff, and it’s thier choice to grow as fast as they can. I advanced pretty fast for the sole reason of wanting to read ‘big books’ already.
    These apps are cool. they are not all that defferent than kindle, are they?

  • Julie C.

    Well, I could argue about the quality of children`s literature for days. I don`t think authors should pander to the lucrative children`s market with poorly-developed stories that show a lack of respect for the intelligence and imaginations and growing vocabularies of children who deserve better than a story written simply to make a buck.

    P.S. I`m not arguing with anybody, I`ve just got strong opinions about the topic. :)

  • Natalie

    I like the idea of not just giving my child an iPhone storybook, but rather an educational app to play with that they can work on math, reading, word recognition, etc. I love this site for reviews and ideas for how to appropriately use the iPhone and iPad as a learning tool.
    http://www.iphoneandkids.com