Books for Kids and Students
From picture books to graphic novels, fantasy to family fun, here you’ll find books for kids and students to amuse and amaze, to offer first experiences and to fire young imaginations.
Picture books help children develop a sense of self. The theatrical aspect of picture books helps to keep all your students engaged and interested. They play a critical role in learning, helping students develop self-awareness and teaching them how to make inferences, among other things.
We all know that reading is one of the most important fundamental skills children (or anyone) must master to succeed - to succeed in school and to succeed in life. Reading expands a child's vocabulary, develops their critical thinking skills, and improves their communication skills, amongst many other benefits. There are several reading apps that are designed to help children develop their literacy skills.
Most of these children's book apps are appropriate for beginning readers (or those learning how to read), but a few are still applicable for proficient readers as well (especially the apps focusing on comprehension).
Achievable teaches adults and teens to study in a streamlined manner by increasing memory retention. Achievable does this by tracking your pace of learning and providing reviews of previously learned content to avoid forgetting information or remembering information incorrectly by utilizing AI. Device compatibility includes iOS and Android web browsers. The age of typical users is 13+ and is a great tool for studying for many academic and professional exams. There is a free trial to view the first few chapters of any test prep course that allows one to get a better idea of their content and how to navigate the site before a subscription is purchased.
Devices: Web
Smart Tales helps kids aged 2 to 6 learn about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) topics. It weaves the learning around child-friendly stories and builds in games and activities to encourage kids' engagement. Smart Tales is available on iOS devices with apps that respond well to the screen sizes of iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV. You can also download the app on Android devices. The app is free to download and has a seven-day free trial.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Nubba app is a Spanish audio service, directed at children, which gives you an alternative to managing screen abuse and addiction among minors. You can listen through hundreds of authentic Spanish audio content, from fairy tales to story series to radio broadcasts running twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and three-hundred sixty-five days a year. The visuals complement the lovely, endearing stories that will keep you and your children enraptured and enthralled for hours upon end. You can select tracks to relax to, to stir the imagination, to help you learn, and to sing and dance the day and night away with your loved ones. Give Nubba a download to bring a little real-world Spanish fun into your home.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
"We Can Books" app is a good resource to create leveled books for beginning readers and special needs learners. It allows user's to easily make a customized book with either pictures from the user's device or pictures on the app. This is a great way to increase comprehension of sight words across 3 different levels and would be a useful supplement to any reading program or curriculum.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Headway is a book reading platform that provides you with a summarized version of books that empowers readers with knowledge. You are given the option of reading or listening to the summary of the available books. Headway app is available for free to download on iOS and Android devices.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
SmartDreams Bedtime Stories uses AI to create unique, personalised bedtime stories accompanied by vivid illustrations. Children’s love for reading will grow through this app which has endless story possibilities. The app is safe and uses only the child’s first name to start the personalised story. They can then choose from a wide selection of fun characters, fantastical worlds and foods to generate an individualised tale to read. Each story delivers valuable morals and lessons that your child can learn from through customised, colourful artwork and animal noises. Created stories can then be easily saved and shared with family and friends for everyone to enjoy! Children can be read to from the app by a parent or can easily navigate the app themselves due to SmartDreams Bedtime Stories simple, intuitive design.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Pinna is an audio streaming service for kids aged between three and twelve. Thousands of podcast episodes, audiobooks, and songs cover entertainment and education. The educational topics cover history, art, music, and literacy. The entertainment includes popular computer games and sports. Kids can listen to the audio content using a downloadable app on iOS, Android, and Amazon devices or through a web browser on desktops and laptops. A limited amount of free content is available to assess Pinna, with a subscription providing much more extra listening material and resources, such as printable teaching and learning packs.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
MyZone is a content-packed app which teaches kids about many topics by naturally linking between them. It allows kids to grow their subject and general knowledge while developing analytical, problem-solving, and cross-curricular understanding. Parents create MyZone accounts for kids on the website, and kids use downloadable apps on iOS and Android for their learning. The current content for MyZone is suitable for kids aged between 10 and 12. At the time of this review, MyZone is in beta and offers five substantial themes for kids to explore at no cost to their parents.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
BOOKVO is an app aimed at users wanting to learn the English language through real access to books and reading over a sustained period of time by practising a set amount each day. The app provides a library of content with lots of support throughout to engage learners and to encourage them to read regularly.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
The bekids Academy app is crammed with minigames, activities, songs, and books for preschoolers to learn about letters, words, science, art, music and more. Its variety, high quality, and excellent design place it among the top preschool apps. You can download bekids Academy on iOS devices for free and play for a limited time each day. A free trial removes the time limit for seven days and a very well-priced subscription keeps the app available.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Dolphin EasyReader gives its users easy access to printed content, including newspapers, magazines and books. It is designed to make reading accessible to anybody who might find it challenging to access the printed word. The features support those who find reading difficult due to dyslexia, visual impairment, neurodivergence, etc. Dolphin EasyReader is compatible with many commonly used text formats. It can also link with many popular libraries and newspaper services worldwide. There is a Dolphin EasyReader app for PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and Kindle. Dolphin EasyReader is a free app with premium personal or education versions that offer extra features such as device synchronisation and extra features. The library services you use may also require a separate subscription.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad , Windows
Storytime Sam is a generative artificial intelligence app for creating kids' stories. The app constructs brand-new child-friendly stories from characters and prompts entered by the user. You can download Storytime Sam for free on iOS devices. Every day you will get ten coins to spend on generating stories or asking the app questions. A low-cost in-app purchase adds 100 coins to your account should you want more and will likely last you a long time.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
HOMER is an early learning and reading app aimed at kids 2 to 8. HOMER Learning is an affordable way for younger kids to learn reading, math and social and emotional skills. HOMER app is available for free to download on iOS and Android devices. Kids can use the web-based version on computers or tablets.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Voice Reader Speech Central is a text-to-speech app that can read out loud any text that you copy or paste into the app. Voice Reader Speech Central has the best PDF support in the text to speech apps. Your reading flow will not be interrupted by footers, headers, footnotes, in-text citations and long web links as they are detected by advanced artificial intelligence in most cases. Speech Central is an app that can be used as assistive technology and helper for people with visual impairments or eyesight problems and disabilities like dyslexia.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
12min: Book Summaries & Ideas is an audiobook app that helps lazy readers to get the summary of the book or story through short audiobooks or short summaries. It contains different categories of books and they are available in both text and audio formats. Consists of books by writers and authors from worldwide and the app turn them into short stories and summaries. It's a very useful app for readers with no time.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
BookBuddy is a powerful book management app that gives you access to your entire book catalog, anywhere. Using BookBuddy is fun and easy, allowing you to quickly find any book in your library, share your favorite books, and keep track of borrowed and lent books. It offers a free version with a 50 book limit and a Pro version with unlimited book storage.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
The Ultimate Dinopedia iPad app is an introduction to the world of dinosaurs, and highlights numerous species. Although it's geared toward children, it's fascinating for dino enthusiasts of any age. Ultimate Dinopedia is a fascinating look at a huge selection of dinosaur species, some of them well known and others obscure. The text is informative and at a reading level suitable for the children for whom the app is intended. A good overview of paleontology, illustrated with useful color diagrams, is included. The illustrations of dinosaurs, and how their long-ago world may have looked, are stunning.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
This interactive app takes you on a 30 page journey that starts at dimension zero and works towards the fourth dimension. It explains what how a fourth spatial dimension would interact with ours, and how we would see it in a three-dimensional context, by partially comparing it to how objects can appear three-dimensional in a two-dimensional plane (like any 3D video game, or just a drawing of a cube on a piece of paper), and expanding it out to a fourth-dimensional object's projection into three-dimensions. Each page includes detailed yet engaging text and interactive models that will help you grasp the concept.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Disney Storytime includes huge selection of different all-time favorite stories featuring Disney Characters.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Play games with Pip and Posy, the lovable friends inside Axel Scheffler’s popular picture book series about the dramas of toddler life.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
This interactive storybook's main character is a robot named Bobo who helps kids learn all about light.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
The Scholastic Book Wizard app also allows users to create an inventory of all titles in classroom library. You can also designate how many copies of the book you own and additional notes. The app allows you to manually search (by typing the name of a title, author, or keyword). Most importantly, the app has a scanner that allows you to simply scan the bar code to quickly search the database for book information.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Farfaria Storybooks - Library of Children's Books and Read Along With Me Stories is a digital library of over 1,000 ebooks for kids, with new books added each week.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS app is a fact-filled, fast-paced magazine created especially for ages 6 and up. With an award-winning combination of photos, facts, and fun, Nat Geo Kids has captivated its more than one million readers for over 35 years. Articles and departments entertain and inspire readers to learn about their world with amazing information about animals, science, technology, archaeology, geography, and pop culture, plus jokes, games, activities in every issue. Your children can explore ancient civilizations on one page, come face-to-face with exotic wildlife on another, and turn the next page to a make and do project, which is often perfect for homework. There are always plenty of gross/interesting facts about animals that your children are certain to share with you, or they can turn to the page that gives them the low-down on their favorite star. Regular competitions are sure to keep your kids involved too.
Devices: iPhone, iPad