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Story Time for Me

Eva and I have been reading stories through the online site called http://StoryTimeForMe.com. It is a really unique site that has interactive storybooks for children. There are cute characters who have different adventures. There is Ben the Mouse, Fern the Fox and Flame the Dragon. Each of these characters is part of their own storyline. Each storyline is for different age levels.

Fern the fox is a series about a fox named Fern and is intended from children from 1-4. The pages have few words and the stories are read quickly. There are also highlighted words that are hyperlinked to images to explain what the words mean. You can read the book to your child or you can have the book read to them automatically. Eva and I have done both of them. I’ve read some books and I’ve let the books be read to us together. There are 27 books in the series so far.

Ben the Mouse is a series that Eva enjoys most. This is about Ben, a little mouse who goes to school and has lots of friends. This series is for children from 4-8 years old. As the book is read aloud by the narrator each word that is read is highlighted. This allows the child to associate the word they are hearing with the word they are seeing on the screen. There are 24 books in this series so far.

Flame the dragon is a new series that is for children from ages 1-4. The series has one story so far all about how a young girl named Mimi finds a little baby dragon. There is one book in the series so far.

Pricing for the books is really decent too especially if you buy 50 of them. For $59 you can get 50 of the books in your library. The animated illustrations are cute, the stories are nice and both Eva and I have enjoyed them very much. Go Check out http://StoryTimeForMe.com for more info.

Disclosure: I was given credits to build my own library of books to read with Eva. The opinions are my own.

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I Am Not Weird – A Read To Me, Dad Review

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My friend Kevin Metzger, whom I just met yesterday in real life for the first time but whom I have talked to numerous times online in the past year or so, sent me two copies of his daughter Haley’s book, “I Am Not Weird”. I decided that I would review the book here on BenSpark.com rather than on Read To Me, Dad because eventually I am going to pull that blog and the content there over here and do more view reviews with Eva and books for Children here. I’m going to stop spreading myself and my content across the web and off you content here in one place. So if you want to just read the Read To Me Dad stuff then that is cool you can still go to http://readtomedad.com but it will point here to the Read To Me Dad category. Here is the view review of the book.

Haley’s book is a wonderful one written by a strong intelligent courageous child. As a father I am blown away by this book and how much self confidence and self awareness Haley must have at such a young age. I also enjoyed that She signed Eva’s copy. Here is the link to purchase the book – http://myspellingsucks.com/weird/

Oh yes, the second copy. I am giving that away to a lucky reader.

How to Enter this Giveaway

(Please read the rules. entries not following the rules will not be counted and will be deleted)Contest open to US Residents Only.

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The contest will run for one week. I will choose the winner through Random.org on September 18. I will not respond to any comments so that I can run the Random.org numbers correctly. The winner will be notified via e-mail and will have 48 hours to reply so that we can send the winner their prize. Contest is open to US Only.

Disclosure: – I received my copies of I Am Not Weird for free however all opinions on the book and the reactions as we read the book are 100% authentic and our own.

The video was shot on the versatile Kodak PlaySport camera that I received for free to film the Roger Williams Paddle back in July. I’ve quickly made it my favorite video camera and in a pinch still camera.