WonderBooks: Read & Listen

WonderBooks turns classic tales, adventures and curious questions into illustrated stories worth reading — narrated aloud in English, free to read, for every age. YOU ARE NOT JUST READING THIS LIBRARY. YOU ARE BUILDING IT. Most apps ask you for a star rating. This one asks you what to make next — and then makes it. Nothing in this library is ever finished, and that is the point. An illustration you flag can be repainted. A story that is not working can be rewritten. A mistake can be corrected in days rather than waiting for a new edition. No printed book and no ordinary app can do that. So we are going to keep asking you things: • Which tale or subject should we take on next? • Which illustration style do you want more of? • Which part of the library do you actually use? • Later: which characters do you want to follow, so we can build a series around them? Always a tap, never a form. We do not ask you to type — you pick an option and get back to reading. To be straight with you about how it works: nothing changes because one person said so, and nothing changes overnight. But when the same signal arrives from enough readers, that becomes the plan, and it gets built. Come back in a few weeks and look for the thing you asked for. That is the whole idea. HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF IT • Press play once and put the phone down. Narration continues page after page, hands-free, words lighting up as they are spoken — good for commutes, bedtime and reluctant readers. • Switch language any time from the reader. The story and the interface follow. • Tap the download icon before you travel. The text stays readable with no connection. • Flag anything that looks wrong. That is not a complaint box — it is how the next version gets written. • Choose the Kids or Adults shelf. They are separate collections built for different readers — not the same stories relabelled. A FREE LIBRARY YOU CAN READ WITHOUT PAYING Every story opens without an account and without payment. No ads. No in-app purchases. Sections we add later may be paid. READ IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE The app works in English, Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish and Chinese — so more people can read the way they read best. Stories are narrated in English, with more narration languages on the way. THE TALES EVERYONE SHOULD MEET Peter Pan, Sindbad the Sailor, The Blue Fairy, The Queen of Hearts, Anansi the Spider's Trick — classics and myths retold page by page, painted the whole way through. AND THE ADVENTURES AND QUESTIONS BEYOND THEM The Sky Pirates, The Clockmaker's Secret, A Day in Ancient Rome, The Warrior Kings of Ashanti, The Banishment of Napoleon to Elba, How Refugees Reshaped Europe After World War II — from playful adventures to stories grown readers pick for themselves. More than 150 stories open today, and new ones keep arriving. FOR CLASSROOMS AND HOME LEARNING Read-along narration supports developing and second-language readers. Offline downloads mean a lesson never depends on the connection. No account, no ads, no data harvesting — hand it to a class or a child directly. Reading never requires an account. Sign in only if you want your favourites, streaks and reading progress synced across your devices. IT STARTED IN 2016 WonderBooks was one small reading app then: 4.9 stars from 977 readers, and top 10 of roughly 155 startups invited to pitch at Harvard Arab Weekend 2016. What it could not do was grow — not to every subject, and not into thirteen languages. It can now. Each subject has become a library of its own, illustrated and narrated throughout, and what readers ask for is what gets built next.