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Every parent can be a storyteller.

106 illustrated folktales, every one read aloud in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Estonian and English. Fourteen are free forever. You bring your presence. We bring the story.

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The Carry the Story mark: two open pages joined by a flowing gold story line

Read, listen, understand

Reading language, listening language, and the language word meanings appear in are three separate choices. Read English, hear Cantonese, understand in Chinese.

Every word explained

Tap any word in any title or caption for a meaning written for a child, and a button to hear it said aloud.

A shelf that reads itself

Add favourites to the bedtime shelf and let the calm voice carry them through, fading the screen gently to black.

Start free, then one payment

Fourteen stories are free forever, one from every shelf. One purchase opens the other 92 and every story added later. No subscription, no advertising, no accounts, and no data collection of any kind.

Eleven cultures on one shelf

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 colour comic art.

Available in five languages today

The interface and all 106 stories are in English, 正體中文, Eesti, 日本語 and 한국어. Narration is recorded in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Estonian, Japanese and Korean. Want these stories in your family's language? Tell us which one.