Every parent can be a storyteller.
All 106 stories in this app are read aloud in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Estonian and English. Not a sample and not a handful: every story, in all six, in a cheerful reading voice and a gentler sleep voice.
So if one of those is the language spoken at home, your child can hear the whole library in it tonight. Nothing is shortened in the other languages and nothing is missing from them.
START WITH 14 STORIES, FREE
Fourteen stories are free forever, one from each shelf, with nothing held back on them. Every voice, every language, the word meanings, the bedtime shelf. Read them as long as you like before you decide anything.
ONE PAYMENT FOR THE REST
The other 92 stories open with a single purchase, and so does every story we add to the app later, at no further cost. There is no subscription, no packs to collect and nothing else to buy. One purchase covers your Family Sharing group.
CANTONESE, PROPERLY
Cantonese comes two ways: read as the text is written, or in natural spoken Cantonese. No other app carries a narrated Cantonese story library of this size, in either reading.
READ, LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Three separate settings, not one. Your child can read in one language, hear a second, and get word meanings in a third.
Read: English, Traditional Chinese, Estonian, Japanese, Korean.
Listen: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Estonian, Japanese, Korean.
EVERY WORD EXPLAINED
Tap any word in any title or caption. A small card shows what it means, written for a child in one short sentence, with a button to hear it said aloud, in every one of the five reading languages.
A SHELF THAT READS ITSELF
Add favorites to the bedtime shelf, then choose Read them all to me. The calm voice carries the whole shelf, moving from story to story on its own while the screen fades gently to black. One tap brings it back.
WHAT IS INSIDE
Japanese folktales, Grimm, Nordic tales, Hans Christian Andersen, Estonian legends, Korean folktales, Chinese chengyu stories, Greek fables and myths, Hong Kong folktales, Taiwanese folktales, and the Arabian Nights. Every page is drawn as full color comic art.
Gentle retellings throughout. Nobody is eaten in Little Red Riding Hood, Icarus is caught before the water closes over him, and Snow White simply wakes up.
MADE FOR CHILDREN
Kid mode hides the settings a child should not change, and buying sits behind a question only a grown-up can answer.
No advertising, no subscriptions and no accounts. No data collection of any kind. Every story plays without an internet connection, and nothing links out of the app.
IF YOUR LANGUAGE IS NOT HERE YET
The interface and all 106 stories are currently in English, Traditional Chinese, Estonian, Japanese and Korean. If you would like to read these stories with your child in another language, write to kl@carrythestory.com and tell us which one. Japanese and Korean are here because families asked for them.
Because every illustration and every recording is included in the app, the download is large. We suggest installing over Wi-Fi.
