Wonder Tales: Read & Listen

Wonder Tales retells the world's fairy tales as illustrated stories worth reading — narrated aloud, 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 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 retelling that is not working can be rewritten. A mistake can be corrected in days rather than waiting for a new edition. No printed book can do that. So we are going to keep asking you things: • Which tale, or which country's tradition, should we retell next? • Which illustration style do you want more of? • Which part of the library do you actually use? • Later: which tales to grow into a series. 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: 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. 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 the world's tales the way they read best. Nearly every story is narrated in English, and more narration languages are on the way. THE TALES EVERYONE GREW UP WITH Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Rumpelstiltskin, The Little Mermaid — retold page by page and illustrated the whole way through, faithful to the story you remember. More than 160 stories are open today. AND THE TALES THE WORLD KEPT The Seven Voyages of Sinbad from the Arabian Nights. The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa from the Russian snow, and The Black Bull of Norroway from the Scottish hills. Grimm and Andersen sit beside the versions most apps never reach — because fairy tales were never told only to children. 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. THE LIBRARY BEHIND THIS ONE Wonder Tales is one shelf of WonderBooks, which began in 2016 as a small reading app with 4.9 stars from 977 readers and a top-10 place among roughly 155 startups at Harvard Arab Weekend. Reaching every subject in every language was beyond it then. Now each subject has a library of its own, illustrated and read aloud, and readers shape what comes next.