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The site is intended to be a resource for parents, teachers and children to easily and simply listen to a great collection of children's books.
Check out more articles on the power of reading as a social and educational tool.
"Suprise Me" option will randomly pick a book from the page you're on. On a computer, it will continue to pick books from this page until it is stopped. Note, the home page picks from a larger selection of books than shown.
General access to the site with access to all the books is free. Membership provides addtional features including:
This website only uses 'cookies' to make log in automatic for members. If you're not a member, no 'cookies' are used with this site. If you're a member, a 'cookie' is set to record your username and will automatically log you in.
Early on we were contacted by a visually impaired mother who wanted to use this with her son. We worked together to make it compatible with the JAWS screen reader.
Please contact us if there are other adjustments that we can make to tailor to other disabilities.
Youtube has a feature to turn subtitles on for the videos. The subtitling feature is a youtube software algorithm and is not recommended for the site as the interpretations of the narrators is completely in the hands of this highly error prone algorithm. Listening to books read aloud is an excellent way to increase exposure to a wide variety of books. It works to increase reading comprehension, to increase vocabulary exposure, to improve next word anticipation skills which are all such important elements in improved reading skills. However, this site is not intended to be used with children reading along to the erroneous subtitles.
Listening to books is a great way to build the listener's vocabulary, familiarity and fluency in a language, whether in your native language or a foreign language. Children's picture books are particularly good for language learners of all ages with the pictures and shorter sentence structures.
Books have also been added in Other Languages. The tab with the globe icon labeled "Other Languages" ("Otras idiomas",
"Altre Lingue", "Autres Langues", "Anderen Sprachen") acts as a
portal between the site in different languages. Following the links will take you to a new site entirely
in the target language.It's great fun to see schools adding the site to their resource pages. Some of the Schools/Libraries/Foundations we know of referring parents:
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Children LOVE to be read to but we don't always have time to do it. iPad apps irritated us in that they continually make reading about buying another substandard book. Reading internet sites are difficult to navigate for my little ones and seem more full of games and animation than just books. We wanted to instill a love of reading books - not a love of watching pseudo television and online shopping. So we compiled this group of videos to appease our voracious "readers". We hope your little ones enjoy.
We get other interesting uses of the site all the time.
We have received multiple requests for easy links to buy the books the children have heard on the site for family home libraries. As we all know, there is no replacing holding a book in your own hands and hearing a familiar voice read it. As such, I've added hopefully a discrete yet convenient link on the side to make it easy to find the book and purchase. This makes JustBooksReadAloud a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. Proceeds will help support and promote children's literacy efforts. Buy a Hard Copy
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