Free App – Just Me and My Mom
Join Little Critter in this interactive book app as he spends the day in the city with his mom. Explore pictures, learn new vocabulary, and personalize the story with your own narration. From the train station to the museum, how will Little Critter do in the big city? iTunes Preview
App Features:
- Free
- Made for Ages 5 and Under
- Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5
- Highlighted narration
- Learn new vocabulary with tappable words and pictures
- Record yourself reading
- Play two find-the-creature mini games! Can you can find all of the spiders and grasshoppers within the story?
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Free App – Cinderella
Cinderella - A Princess Storybook for iPad and iPhone from One Hundred Robots on Vimeo.
Turn a pumpkin into a coach, change 3 mice into horses, transform a ragged dress into a magnificent gown, and help an old pair of shoes become glass slippers! Touch objects on each page to discover hidden sounds. You will feel like Cinderella — being graced by a fairy godmother, transforming into the radiant beauty of the ball, and becoming a princess! This interactive book includes 40 storybook scenes. iTunes Preview
App Features:
- Free
- Rated 4+
- Compatible with iPad
- Option to read to self, or read to me
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Free App – Toy Story Read Along
Meet Woody, a cowboy doll that comes to life when humans aren’t around. When his owner Andy receives a Buzz Lightyear space ranger for his birthday, Woody and the other toys fear they’ll be replaced. Woody’s plan to get rid of Buzz backfires and he ends up lost outside the world of Andy’s room, with Buzz as his only companion! The toys work together to find their way back to Andy and discover the meaning of true friendship along the way. iTunes Preview
App Features:
- Free
- Rated 4+
- Compatible with iPad
- Words light up as each is read
- Record your own voice reading the story! (Great for Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa!)
- Additional games and activities
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Free App – Spatter & Spark
Starring Spark an inventor fox and her friend Spatter an artistic porcupine, Spatter & Spark invites children to invent, learn, and create. iTunes Preview
App Features:
- Free
- Made for Ages 5 and Under
- Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5
- "Read Alone" or "Read to Me" Option
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Free App – Goodnight Safari
Help the giraffe eat her dinner, the monkey climb to bed, and the elephant kiss goodnight. iTunes Preview
App Features:
- Free
- Made for Ages 5 and Under
- Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5
- Help the animals prepare for bedtime through seven interactive scenes.
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Free App – The Curious Reader
Enjoy this classic story of the newly-captured monkey who gets himself into considerable trouble! George is taken from the jungle by the man in the yellow hat to live in a new home, and though trying to be good, George is still very curious and takes a swim in the ocean, escapes from jail, and goes for a flying ride on a bunch of balloons. iTunes Preview
App Features:
- The book "Curious George" is Free. Several other Curious George titles are available for in app purchase
- Compatible with iPad
- Rated 4+
- "Read to Me" or "Read to Myself" Options
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Free App – Little Red Riding Hood
Enjoy the classic story "Little Red Riding Hood" in this FREE app by Mundomono. iTunes Preview
App Features:
- Free
- Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
- Made for Ages 5 and Under
- Read to Me, Read it Myself and Autoplay mode
- Word highlighting to help beginning reader skills
- English and Spanish Narrations
- Puzzles
- Also available for purchase: Pinocchio
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Read Right Now! BIRDS Take a Closer Look: Birds & When the Sun Comes Up
The Read Right Now! books below you can read online, right now, with no waiting! Also don't miss the Early Readers Club - your child can pick up a free book at participating IndyPL branches from Sep. - May each year until age six. Really! Books to Keep! Details.
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Read Take a Closer Look: Birds - Fly with amazing birds over deserts, seas, woodlands, and lush rainforests. From pink flamingos to chattering parrots and racing roadrunners, there are lots of feathered friends to meet. Try these activities at home:
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Read Tinga Tinga Tales: When the Sun Comes Up The start of each new day in Tinga Tinga Tales is very busy -- Hen welcomes her chicks, Elephant wakes up tortoise, and Tickbird makes sure Hippo is clean. And you can't miss the Tinga birds singing their loud dawn chorus! |
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Read Right Now! FROGS See How They Grow: Frogs & The Princess & The Frog
The Read Right Now! books below you can read online, right now, with no waiting! Also don't miss the Early Readers Club - your child can pick up a free book at participating IndyPL branches from Sep. - May each year until age six. Really! Books to Keep! Details.
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Read See How They Grow: Frog Follow a tadpole on its journey to become a frog in this fun and informative picture book. See How They Grow is a photographic paperback series designed to introduce the fascinating world of animals and how they develop, step-by-step. Try these at home:
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Read Tale of a TadpoleThis book follows the life of a newborn tadpole as it grows up into a frog, facing the dangers of the pond along the way. |
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Read The Princess and the Frog - In this fairy tale with a twist, Tiana knows that her dreams will come true through hard work -- not by wishing on a star or kissing frogs. When she finds herself caught up in a magic-filled adventure, Tiana befriends a jazz-playing alligator, a lovesick firefly, and some other unexpected guests. As Tiana continues to work for her dream, she learns to understand the difference between what she wants and what she really needs. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Right Now! JUNGLE Why Elephant Has a Trunk & Jungle Friends
The Read Right Now! books below you can read online, right now, with no waiting! Also don't miss the Early Readers Club - your child can pick up a free book at participating IndyPL branches from Sep. - May each year until age six. Really! Books to Keep! Details.
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Read Why Elephant Has a Trunk - Brilliantly colorful story of Elephant's transformation from a smelly, dirty beast with a short stubby nose into his glorious Tinga Tinga persona. Featuring the colorful cast of Tinga Tinga Tales animals, when Elephant's nose gets 'snapped' by grumpy Crocodile it is stretched and stretched until it is a very useful long wiggly nose indeed! TERRUMPETT! |
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Read Jungle Friends - Easy-to-read text introduces a number of Mowgli's friends from the animated Disney version of The Jungle Book. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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