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Speakaboos Stories: 150+ Interactive Children's Books, Read Along Videos & Educational Songs for Preschool & Kindergarten Kids App Review

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App review by Dana Anderson, Common Sense Media

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age 4+

Engaging library app with songs, fun interactive games.

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What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Speakaboos Stories is a narrated storybook and song app that includes some titles with game-like interactivity. Three free books come with the app's initial download. For access to the other more than 150 titles, parents must subscribe (from $4.99/month to $39.99/year). The stories and songs are grouped into categories (such as Family & Friends, Animals, Monsters, and Sports) and are geared toward preschool- and kindergarten-age kids. Titles range from classic tales such as The Tortoise and the Hare to original, interactive stories, such as Find It: A Halloween Party, featuring real photos of kids and seek-and-find games. Options for story playback include "Read To Me," "Read & Play," or "Read It Myself," but not all stories include all three options. Parents can tap the "i" button to view a synopsis of each story.

Community Reviews

mlbaker1991 Adult

November 12, 2022

age 6+

lashey278 Adult

August 14, 2014

age 7+

give to best friends ..

i wish play witha game and friends..

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Easy to play/use

What’s It About?

Try the three free stories before deciding whether to subscribe to SPEAKABOOS STORIES. Subscribers can view categories for stories, songs, and main characters on two home pages. Tap on a category, view the story titles within that category, and then tap on one to select it. Wait for the story to download. Choose from the play options for the story (icons will show which ones are available for each story), then listen or read. Listen to and follow the directions for the interactive games.

Is It Any Good?

Speakaboos Stories can enhance kids' early experiences with digital books through quality stories and songs, as well as simple, interactive games. With the purchase of a subscription,  Speakaboos Stories gives young kids access to more than 150 stories and songs on this well-organized, easy-to-use app. For parents who are looking for a narrated-book library app with visually creative, often animated storybooks that young kids likely will be able to navigate on their own, the subscription is well worth it. Kids will have access to hours of content, even more if they play the interactive games in some of the stories. There's a lot of educational content here, including bilingual stories with Little Pim. If all three options (Read To Me, Read & Play, or Read It Myself) were available for all stories, Speakaboos Stories could be even more engaging. 

Talk to Your Kids About .

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  • Read 6 Skills Every Kid Should Know Before Kindergarten, and use this app as one of many ways to get your preschooler or kindergarten-age kid listening to stories and maybe reading a bit, too. 

  • Check out the story-based songs as well as the storybooks. Singing while reading the highlighted words is great for rhythm and word retention.

  • If your kid enjoys the seek-and-find game found in some of the books on Speakaboos, play a game of real-world I Spy together.

App Details

  • Device: iPad
  • Subjects: Language & Reading: following directions, letter or word recognition, reading, reading comprehension, storytelling, Science: animals
  • Skills: Thinking & Reasoning: solving puzzles
  • Pricing structure: Free to try (subscription $4. 99/1 mo., $24.99/6 mo., $39.99/12 mo.)
  • Release date: March 25, 2014
  • Category: Books
  • Topics: Magic and Fantasy, Princesses, Fairies, Mermaids, and More, Sports and Martial Arts, Adventures, Book Characters, Bugs, Friendship, Holidays, Horses and Farm Animals, Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires
  • Publisher: Speakaboos
  • Version: 1.2.0
  • Minimum software requirements: iOS 6. 0 or later
  • Last updated: September 16, 2021

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TOP books for children about economics and finance.

Part 1

The cultural code of people is always interesting. And the books that people read in childhood are an integral part of it. The more common references, the better and faster you can understand a person.

1️⃣ A.S. Pushkin. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish. Pushkin, with his precise and clear language, did not bypass economic relations either. In a fairy tale, one can see not only greed and its consequences, but the need to create an airbag, insure risks, and diversify. Relying on only one fish in solving all problems, you can really stay “at the trough”.
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2️⃣ S.Ya. Marshak. Cat house. This tale in verse is about the fact that not only property and money are important in life. Everything in this world is absolutely personal. If Pushkin opened the Russian language to us, then Marshak is a guide to world literature. He passed through a lot of cultural codes and filtered out the most kind and valuable. By the way, according to the fairy tale there is a very good cartoon.
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3️⃣ A.N. Tolstoy. The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio
Instead of literary processing of the overly instructive Italian Pinocchio, Tolstoy got his own adventurous story. From the very beginning, Pinocchio plunges into commodity-money relations, sells a jacket, buys the alphabet; then he sells it too… As a result, he has 5 gold coins and real adventures begin. The Land of Fools and the Field of Miracles have been in our cultural code for a long time. Assess the risks before "burying" your hard-earned soldos.
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4️⃣ Nikolai Nosov. Dunno on the Moon.
A book for younger students, while it describes in simple terms such economic phenomena as trading in securities, the functioning of joint-stock companies, product placement and many others. Now it would be called edutainment, that is, education and entertainment “in one bottle”.
6+

5️⃣ Enid Blyton. Noddy's adventures in a toy city
Principles of economics for the little ones. Simple language, great for getting to know the basics. The child will think about where dad and mom got a house, a car and other benefits. Noddy is also a good example for children, not like Dunno or Pinocchio, but also without cloying edification. The writer also has a well-known fairy tale about Tim the adventurer duck.
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6️⃣ Eduard Uspensky. Three from Prostokvashino
This is a storehouse of economic literacy. The boy-uncle Fyodor begins an independent life. Together with Matroskin and Sharik, he has to solve many household issues: Where to get money? Do you borrow? How to manage money wisely? Save or not? Including those relating to relations with the state (the story of a cow and a calf). Everyone remembers the quote “to sell something you don’t need, you must first buy something you don’t need”. And also that not every boy gets a bike. There are many different financial strategies here and you can sort them out with your children.
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7️⃣ John R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins' habit of sticking his nose in everything leads him to the fact that an interesting deal is tucked into the hobbit. But on the way to its implementation there are many obstacles and you need to show not only courage, but also ingenuity, negotiate, maintain a reputation and make innovative decisions. At the end of the journey, Bilbo has to settle legal issues. But let's not spoil.
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How the editors of LJ support content theft: bioplant — LiveJournal

? Bioplant / bioplant / biopont support service:

Why are the posts of user kukmor constantly in the top (currently at the 47th place in the rating), although they are copy-paste posts from Pikabu, incl. and photos, no links? When the "repost" function was removed from LiveJournal, this was argued by the struggle for copyright. Why the fight for copyright does not affect the blogger kukmor ? After all, such posts should be sent by editors to Other, and not hang in the top for days.
link to a post with proofs
link to a question in support

Please note that the question was not so much about blogger Aksan Niyazov (what can you take from a copy-paste), but about the work of the LJ editorial. For example, I feel sorry for the time spent scrolling in the top LJ, if there is a post through the post that I read on Peekaboo a week ago. Why then go to the top LJ at all, let's immediately go to Pikabu and sit.

Result:
1. On the support request, they put a sign "This is a confidential request. It is not public." - let as few people as possible know about thieves.
2. There has been no answer to the request for three weeks - it's clear that you can answer here. Here is the main page on LiveJournal nely_snork encourages her to ask questions about blogs, LiveJournal, texts and popularity. I asked a question, but they don't want to answer.
3. Copy-paste with Peekaboo from Niyazov continues to hang constantly in the top. Yesterday there were two posts, today here is one.
4. In some new posts and in some old ones, Niyazov began to do this: "put the text in quotation marks" and put the tag spikabu (but not the link) - i.e. it seems that someone from support leaked my "confidential" question to him (in the statistics of "My guests" I don't have any kukmor).
5. Aksanov secretly banned my journal - a typical policy of thieves caught by the hand.
6. LJ-goat lies to users, putting the category "Lytbydr" on Aksanov's copy-paste. But neither in the previous, nor in this post, the goat with the categories did not come. So, it has been done in such a way that, again, fewer people see these posts, and more people see Niyazov's.
7. How do Aksanov's posts get into the top at all? Maybe cause heated discussions? On the example of the last post, you can clearly see how (link): cheating visits with likes and comments about nothing from a couple of letters. Someone has time even before the automatic goat! The fact that the photo was stolen from Pikabu without authorship and links, I think, is not even necessary to mention.

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