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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.

Princess and the Pea

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!

Record a Story

BUY IT!
Visit the My Living Stories page on iTunes to purchase these apps, at $1.99 each.

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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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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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  1. I’d like to try out King Midas – it’s always been one of my favorite stories!

  38. I like The Princess and the Pea story the most especially since my 4 yr old granddaughter is fascinated by all the Disney princesses 🙂

  45. Goldilocks & the Three Bears would be my pick.
    Thanks so much.
    rickpeggysmith(at)aol(dot)com

  55. My children love the princess and the pew story. We encourage them to read everyday and this would be a great addition to their ipod touch!!

  65. The Cat in the Hat! My nephew loves Dr. Seuss.

    Thank you for the giveaway. 🙂

    anthy_stl [ATT] yahoo [DOTT] com

  69. I think my son would like The Tortoise and the Hare the most, since he’s already familiar with that story.

  84. My childhood favorite was always “The Princess and The Pea” and I still like the story today, many years later.

  104. Shrek is my sons favorite. So I would download the Shrek Forever After.
    Thank you so much for the giveaway.

    jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com

  109. Gotta go with the Princess and the Pea, since it’s the princess one and my girls are all about the princesses!

  116. I’m guessing the story of King Midas would be my favorite.
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  124. I’ve always found that King Midas was an extremely valuable parable for children to learn from. That would definitely be the one that I download first to my iPod Touch. Thanks.

  138. I would choose The Princess and the Pea as we all love Pricesses! Thank you for the lovely giveaway.

    sewmuchstuff at ymail dot com

  179. 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!

  195. 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!”

  198. Thanks for the giveaway…my kids love the tale of The Tortoise and the Hare, I think they would enjoy that app.

  209. I think my kids would like The Tortoise and the Hare. I always loved that one as a kid. Maybe it will make them realize they don’t always have to be going 100 miles an hour.