Wonder People: Read & Listen

Wonder People turns real lives into illustrated stories worth reading — narrated in English from start to finish, free to read, and working in more than ten languages. YOU ARE NOT JUST READING THIS LIBRARY. YOU ARE BUILDING IT. Most apps ask you for a star rating. This one asks you whose life to tell next — and then tells 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: • Whose life should we tell next? • Which era do you want more of? • Which illustration style do you want more of? • Later: which figures 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, 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. No interruptions. 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, in more places, can read remarkable lives the way they read best. Every story is narrated in English, start to finish, with more narration languages on the way. THE NAMES YOU KNOW Leonardo da Vinci, Cleopatra, William Shakespeare, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Frida Kahlo, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Martin Luther King Jr — told as stories about the person behind the name, not as a list of dates. More than 120 life stories open today. AND THE LIVES YOU DID NOT EXPECT Hedy Lamarr, the film star whose invention is in your Wi-Fi. Josephine Cochrane, who invented the dishwasher. Wangari Maathai, who answered a crisis by planting trees. Hatshepsut, pharaoh of Egypt. Grace Hopper, Rumi — lives you meet and never forget. 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. A LIBRARY WITH A LONGER HISTORY THAN IT LOOKS Wonder People is one shelf of WonderBooks, which began in 2016 as a small reading app — 4.9 stars from 977 readers, and top 10 of roughly 155 startups invited to pitch at Harvard Arab Weekend. Reaching every subject and every language was impossible then. Each subject now has its own library, illustrated and narrated, shaped by what readers ask for.