Reading or listening to short stories for kids in French is a great way to share a unique moment with your children and learn French simultaneously. Choose from hundreds and hundreds of books for kids age 3 and over and start reading and listening to French!
What better way to learn French at any age than enjoying a good story? Reading and listening to short stories simultaneously is a great way to improve your— and your kids’— French skills. That's why Storyplay'r offers an audio version of each story in the library, read by a native storyteller. For anyone learning to speak or read French, these French short stories for beginners and their audio versions are a great way to improve their skills.
Storyplay'r is an online library of more than 1,000 French books with audio versions and a fantastic platform for kids and beginners to learn French. Storyplay'r offers all kinds of stories: tales and classics from here and elsewhere, picture stories, documentaries, animal stories, nursery rhymes and songs, and hero stories (Mimi Cracra, Gudule, or Caillou...). On top of that, you can choose if you want to read the book, or if you want it to be read to you or your kid. You can also choose the Karaoke version, highlighting the terms that are read —a great way to improve your French skills.
Browse the different themes below and choose the right children’s story for you or your family.
Digital technology makes it possible to efficiently combine written and audio text, digital technology makes it possible to display text in a personalized way that is adapted to each reader, digital technology makes it possible to colorize complicated phonemes and silent letters, digital technology makes it possible to have an entire library in one's pocket, digital technology makes it possible to practice reading by recording and replaying the text. Storyplay'r takes advantage of all these possibilities to make reading more accessible and easier.
We see digital as a complement to the paper book. The on-screen reading experiences we offer are meant to complement paper reading. For our partner publishers, often small independents, Storyplay'r is an opportunity to make themselves and their paper publications known.
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