Reading Your eBooks? Now Your Kids Can Too

You tuck your Kindle or Reader into your backpack, or you download the newest books to your iPad so you can take your books along with you. Now you can encourage your children to read electronically too.

Disney Digital Books was created for this purpose – it’s like reading a book, only it’s on the screen with many enhanced features. They’ve loaded up over 600 Disney favorites online at www.DisneyDigitalBooks.com for your kids to enjoy. Kids can read either on a computer or you can download several choices to the iPad, including the Toy Story trilogy and The Princess and the Frog.

Some of the features of the digital books include:

• More than 600 books offering children of all ages, reading levels and interests a broad selection of books.
• A variety of Look and Listen titles that allow children to hear the story read aloud.

• Children can click with the help of a Magic Pen to turn pages, highlight words to hear them aloud, see definitions.

• A “My Place” area that children can personalize and a virtual bookshelf.
• An age-appropriate dictionary that lets children select unfamiliar words and read the definitions.
• Fun trivia challenges based off of what the child has read are interspersed throughout the stories to promote reading comprehension.
• Reading certificates to encourage budding readers.
• A Story Builder feature, so kids can create and share their own Disney-inspired stories.

DDB offers 5 levels of reading

•  Pre Readers – using pictures and short simple sentences
• Early Readers – featuring less than 5 short sentences per page
• Beginning to Read on My Own – with short paragraphs
• Reading On My Own – including longer paragraphs and beginning chapter books
• Chapter Books and Junior Novels – these are longer and more challenging

Titles include new stories, like The Princess and the Frog as well as the classics like Peter Pan, Brother Bear, Finding Nemo and The Lion King. Disney Channel titles include Wizards of Waverly Place and That’s So Raven.  Kids can also read movie stories from High School Musical 3 as well as Lizzie McGuire Mysteries.

Parents can control all activity and can have up to 3 different kids as part of their account. Extra features include a mailbox for sending and receiving pre-written messages, a Friends feature for adding friends, and an incentive program that gives points and rewards for accomplishments and answering trivia questions. With membership, members also have access to content on ABC.com and ESPN.com as well.

Check out www.disneydigitalbooks.com for more information and to start your membership now. Your kids will thank you.