Audio Stories for Traveling Families
An iPhone app that puts thousands of kids’ audio stories at your fingertips
When I think of family road trips, I tend to romanticize them. I flip through a big deck of vintage postcards in my mind. Here we’re exploring national parks. Here we’re frolicking in the hotel swimming pool. Here we’re happily gazing out the car window as the miles fly by.
That last one is particularly delusional because—like most kids—mine hate long days in the car. But if you’ve got an iPhone, I’ve got the antidote.
All-you-can-eat stories on demand
Tales2Go is an app that puts an enormous library of children’s audio stories at your fingertips for a very reasonable subscription price of $24.99/year. Play them over your car’s speakers or pass the phone on back. You can browse by age, grade, genre, most listened to, or highest rated. They offer a 30-day free trial too.
Win a free subscription
Are you heading off on a road trip this Labor Day? Or in desperate need of a new carpool tool this school year? Travel Savvy Mom is giving away one free annual Tales2Go subscription to one lucky reader. Just leave a comment below by August 30th for a chance to win (U.S. only please).
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August 23rd, 2010 | by travelsavvymom 10 comments
1. Julie C. on August 23rd, 2010
We love audiobooks at bedtime and in the car. It’s a great way to keep my emerging reader interested in chapter books.
2. Diana on August 23rd, 2010
Audio books from the library have saved our road trips. I would love to try Tales2Go–what a perfect app. I especially like that it doesn’t require an extra trip to the library, something I usually forget about until 5 minutes before closing time!
3. Kay Green on August 23rd, 2010
My daughter loved the Tales2Go trial. We would love to win it. And how appropriate since August 30th is my birthday
4. Seana on August 23rd, 2010
I have been using my kindle and audio.com for our 1/2 hour commute to school, but Tales2Go sounds much more economical!
5. Body Language on August 24th, 2010
My kids love to listen to audiobooks too! This is useful in my case for I don’t how much time to spend reading with them some books. I’d love to have a copy of Tales2Go as well!
6. CrazyCurl on August 24th, 2010
I love Tails2Go. My dd is hooked on Judy Moody. Our free trial is almost over and we’d love to win this!
7. BeijingWithKids on August 24th, 2010
We are American and have an USA iTunes account, but live in Beijing China. My kids, 4.5 an 3.5, go to a local all Mandarin Chinese preschool. Their only English input is from me! Having ‘discovered’ the free podcasts of storynory and a few others, in the past few months, it has been amazing!
We listen to stories in the car and sometimes on airplanes and at home, and the kids memorize them and request them over and over. It’s a nice change from always hearing me read books to them, and also allows me to concentrate on driving in the crazy Beijing traffic!!
Finally, I have a great tool in which to increase the English my kids hear!!
This summer, I brought them to the USA for 6 weeks (we are still here) to attend the local YMCA daycamp and the counsellors commented that the kids tell great stories and hold very advanced conversations. I am sure this is partly due to our ‘lots of audio stories’ lifestyle!
We also visited our library a lot this summer, but their online resources do not include audio books for kids, so when we get on that plane back to Beijing in a few days… we need to find more English audio stories for kids, and Tails2Go would be perfect for that! With the limited resources available to us, it would double my kids options for great age appropriate audio stories in English.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to enter this contest :)
8. Boutique Hotels on August 25th, 2010
This is COOL !!!!!
9. Syd on October 27th, 2010
Road trip is exciting specially that I have a 3 year old son who whines after more than half an hour doin nothing but gazing through the car window…I really need to get him engaged on something. Thanks to this antidote, I’ll try Tales2go! Great that it has 30 day free trial period. I can’t imagine how odd it is without iPhones! My Intuition app (www.iconapps.com) helps me be on top of my tasks and schedules and a few more kid apps keep my son behaved while I do the chores. Apps are life savers for me. :P
10. Vancouver Island Dodge on May 11th, 2011
Might as well recommend this to my aunt who has two really hyperactive kids ages 5 and 7. Tales2go is a great iPhone app, especially during travel time with kids tagging along. Children have wild imaginations, so this audio story-telling remedy may let them “behave” for awhile on the backseats. Thanks for the information, I really appreciated it!
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