My Living Stories
My oldest daughter has her own iPod touch now, so I’m always looking for fun new apps to download. My Living Stories apps offer adorable animated storybooks that contain beautiful artwork and narration and are a great solution for entertaining on-the-go or as an aid for teaching children to read at home. Classic My Living Stories include Princess & the Pea, King Midas, The Tortoise & the Hare, Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. These apps allow for your child to read along with English narration or read the stories themselves, while sounds and animation bring stories to life.
We recently tried out 3 of the 5 My Living Stories apps and my daughters have enjoyed them quite a bit, especially the Princess & the Pea story. The illustrations are sweet, the animation is subtle, and the stories are familiar, but still entertaining.
The controls are simple enough for even my 3-year-old to understand. Just touch the arrows to go backward or forward in the story, and the X to quit. A great feature of these apps is the ability to record your own voice to go along with the story. There are slots for up to four recordings, so in addition to mommy, daddy can “read” a book to the kids when he’s away on a business trip, or a child can record themselves reading and play it back. We weren’t able to test this feature out, however, because Maya has a first generation iPod touch, and you need an iPhone or iPod Touch with microphone capabilities. It sounds neat, though!
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Visit the My Living Stories page on iTunes to purchase these apps, at $1.99 each.
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Giveaway is closed. Winner has been contacted and is listed here.
Enter to win a $25 iTunes card by leaving me a comment telling me which My Living Stories story you think you’d like the most.
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- Subscribe to my feed by feed reader or email (or let me know if you already do).
- Follow me on Twitter (@OhMariana) and tweet about this giveaway (one time): iTunes #giveaway! Enter to win a $25 iTunes giftcard from #MyLivingStories – http://thedomesticbuzz.com/?p=10942
- Blog about this giveaway, linking to this post.
Contest ends August 5th, 2010 11:59 pm EST. US and Canadian entries only, one person per household. Leave a separate comment per entry & a valid email address. Winner, chosen at random, has 24 hours to claim their prize. Readers may enter the contest on multiple blogs but are only eligible to win one iTunes gift card as part of the My Living Stories contest.
Disclosure: I am participating in the My Living Stories program by Mom Central on behalf of Decode Entertainment. I received 3 free apps and a gift card as a thank you for my participation.
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I think I would like the story The Tortoise & the Hare.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears, I’ve always liked that story. Thanks!
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I like The Tortoise and the Hare. I like the meaning behind the story. thank you!
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Goldilocks is a long-time favorite story of mine.
I would get the Princess and the Pea
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We would like the Tortoise and the Hare.
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I would like The Tortoise & the Hare the most!
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I would get King Midas. Thanks.
The Tortoise and the Hare
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We’d choose the King Midas .
Thanks for the giveaway!
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I’d like The Princess and the Pea
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I like Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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The Princess and the Pea
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King Midas was always a favorite story of mine as a kid, and I still love its central moral, so that would be the app from My Living Stories I’d try first. Thanks!
I’m already an email subscriber: gkaufmanss@yahoo.com
I’m following you on twitter (@guettel78) and I tweeted: http://twitter.com/guettel78/status/20410485807
I blogged about the giveaway: http://slavetoacademia.blogspot.com/2010/08/win-25-itunes-gc-from-my-living-stories_951.html
I think I would like the King Midas story the best.
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i would like little red riding hood
I like The Tortoise and the Hare!
The Prince And The Pea
I subscribe through Google Reader.
The Princess and the Pea.
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I like King Midas.
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Princess and the Pea
It would definitely have to be Goldilocks and the Three Bears, which is a book that I read quite often to my granddaughters. They would love it if I had this app on my iPhone when we’re “on the go!”
I think for sure, The Tortoise and the Hare, my son loves that one
i subscribe thanks
Thanks for the giveaway…my kids love the tale of The Tortoise and the Hare, I think they would enjoy that app.
Subscribed via RSS.
Goldilocks and the three bears r the princess and the pea. Thanks.