The BookShelf download store provides fantastic audio resources for children to listen to on their StoryPhones MP3 players. We have just added two great new titles from Starshine Music: a delightful story and songs about a very unusual scarecrow and lively songs involving three very curious characters!

Tattybogle

Tattybogle is a scarecrow with a head full of straw and cheerful thoughts. The rain is Tattybogle’s music and the wind is his dancing partner. One day, the wind blows too hard, and all that is left of Tattybogle is an old stick. But this is only the start of a glorious adventure.

This warm, delightful story written by Sandra Horn not only takes children on a journey through the seasons but also through Tattybogle’s changing fortunes. This is a story full of hope and change and made for sharing.

The audio story, narrated by Sandra Horn, is accompanied by catchy songs and dances produced by Starshine Music. Children can join Tattybogle as he dances in the wind and moves among the raindrops.

Tattybogle audio story and songs are now available from the BookShelf download store, price £8.98.

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You can also buy the accompanying book, available to order from the Bookshelf download store, price £7.49

Zippety Zappy Zee

Zippety the mouse, Zappy the zebra and Zee the bee are three delightful characters who introduce this set of lively new songs for young children. There are songs for occasions and themes, fast ones, slow ones, and dance and clap along one! Great songs for energetic, music loving children!

You can buy the download collection of 25 songs for £9.59.

Also available, the accompanying song book, price £10.98 and a set of finger puppets, price £6.60.

Clickety Books create wonderfully humorous children’s stories based on eighteen quirky animal characters. The imaginative choice of words and rhymes encourage children to develop their knowledge of speech sounds, the essential building blocks for spoken communication and reading. These stories can be enjoyed by all children and used to support children with speech, language and early literacy difficulties.

Introduce your children to Jake the Achy Snake, Lucky the Plucky Duck and all their Clickety friends! These colourful characters, delightfully illustrated, form the basis of each story, full of rhyme, word play and alliteration. You can meet all the characters and find out more about the stories by watching these animated introductions on the Clickety Book website.

All of the stories are accompanied by beautifully produced audio stories brought to life by the brilliant narration of Rik Mayall, Roni Ancona and Catherine Tate. Listening to these audio stories not only breaths life into all the Clickety Book characters but also encourage children’s listening, attention and comprehension skills.

Clickety Books are the result of a of creative team of writers, illustrators and speech and language therapists. You can find our more about this award winning team here. No wonder Clickety Books were winners of a 2012 Gold Practical Pre-School Award and 2012 Silver Primary Teacher Award.

We are very pleased that our customers now can buy all nine Clickety Book audio titles from our download store and order the hard copies to accompany them.

Barefoot Books offer children a bright, colourful world of stories, rhymes, sing-along songs, and dance-along dances. Children’s imaginations can wander through a world of traditional tales and new stories written especially for Barefoot Books and bounce along to songs and rhymes. These lovely stories and rhymes are a delight to share, read and listen along too.

At the heart of all Barefoot Books is the love of traditional oral story telling which is reflected in the audio stories which accompany their books. Many of the stories draw on traditional tales from around the world, using words, music and song to give children a sense of the rich, diverse world they are growing up in.

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of 36 Barefoot Books titles into our download store. If you own a StoryPhones MP3 audio system or Little Listener, you can now download a treasure trove of audio stories from Barefoot Books!

Your children can listen to traditional tales such as Little Red Riding Hood and The Gigantic Turnip or enjoy stories from around the world. There is a huge selection of sing along stories to join in with and new stories to explore. Download prices start from £2.99 and include permission for use throughout your school, nursery or setting on your StoryPhones systems and players.

Different styles of music can have a profound effect on the mood and behaviour of babies and young children.

Ami Tomake is an exquisite set of tracks composed especially with babies and young children in mind and based on the melody of an ancient traditional Bengali lullaby.

Award winning composer, Steve Luck has written Ami Tomake in accordance with current research into the effect that music has on the human body. Slow tempos can actually alter the brainwaves, promoting a calm, meditative state which in turn slows the breathing and heart rate.

Steve has produced two versions of Ami Tomake. The first track has vocals which translate as ‘I love you dear baby’ and the soothing lullaby vocal melody is accompanied by lush orchestral strings, harp and solo flute. The tempo matches that of the resting human heart rate and the music is arranged in a gently lilting ¾ time signature. The orchestration was chosen to provide natural sounding instruments which most closely resemble some of the sounds a baby hears in the womb. The track features sublime vocals from acclaimed singers Eloise Hodder and Lesley Roley.

The second track, ‘The Ami Tomake Suite’ has been produced in response to demand for a purely instrumental version of the original composition. It features the beautiful flute work of Tom Lovatt, more to the fore playing the melody of the lullaby as well as an extended arrangement containing new musical material not included in the original Ami Tomake.

Ami Tomake relaxation music is ideal for babies and children when you want to create a time of quiet, calm and stillness and perfect for settling babies and little ones at nap time.

We are delighted that this lovely, gentle music is now available for our StoryPhones settings to buy from our BookShelf download store. You can listen here to a clip of Ami Tomake here.

Ami Tomake relaxation music with vocals: download cost £10.00

Ami Tomake Suite, instrumental relaxation music: download cost £10.00

Ami Tomake Delux Edition including vocal and instrumental version: download cost £16.00

Don’t forget your purchase includes a site license giving you permission to play Ami Tomake throughout your setting on your StoryPhones system!

We have added 5 new titles by the wonderful storyteller and author, Neil Griffiths. Neil’s stories have an appealing quality and humour which are a delight to share with children or to listen to as an audio book.

Neil narrates all of his stories and with Red Robin books has added extra tracks to his audio stories. Your children can now take part in listening games and quizzes and hear how Neil finds his ideas for all his stories.

New titles include:

Ringo the Flamingo
Fatou, Fetch the Water
Florence Was No Ordinary Fairy
There’s a Spider in the Bath
Sam’s Sack From Santa

Eleanor Johnson recently contributed an article to the Innovate My School website where she describes her experience of sharing one of Neil’s story’s, ‘Albert’s Tuneful Trunk’ with a group of young children in the Early Years Foundation Stage. You can read her article here.

Audio stories from Red Robin Books cost between £3.49 and £4.49, you can also order hard copies of the books to accompany the audio stories.

Little Tiger Press are renowned for creating appealing stories with beautifully recorded accompanying audio stories. We have now added 5 new titles to the download store including:

The Very Noisy Night
Shaggy Dog and the Terrible Itch
Pooh, Is That You  Bertie?
Quiet!!
Smiley Shark

This means that there are now 15 Little Tiger Press titles to choose from in the StoryPhones download store. All of these audio downloads include two versions of the story. The listen along version has accompanying music and sound effects and is a brilliant way to enjoy a story together. The read along version includes page turn prompts and gives children an opportunity to listen independently with the book. The stories are read by celebrities such as Jamie Theakston and Helen Lederer.

You can also visit our Facebook page and read Eleanor Johnson’s post in May about using The Bad Tempered Ladybird audio story with a group of EYFS children.

All audio downloads cost £5.00 and include a listen along and read along version of the story. Price includes a site license for the story to be played through out your setting.

JaJaJa Books have a wonderful way of introducing children to a new language! The author, Genevieve Yusuf, with a degree in Linguistics and Spanish and several years experience of tutored children in Spanish, has put her knowledge of teaching languages to children into the creation of a lovely set of story books.

The story of Lucy and Lucia Play Hide and Seek is centred on a little girl called Lucy who goes on holiday to Spain and makes a new friend, Lucia. JaJaJa Books have cleverly woven common Spanish words and phrases, such as ‘thank you’, ‘friends’ and numbers to 10 within the English text beneath bright, colourful illustrations by Suzanne Wilson. The Spanish words are integrated into the story in such a way that children to learn a new language without even realising it! There’s also a really useful word list at the back of the book to help those of us ‘non Spanish speakers’ with the correct pronunciation.

Lucy and Lucia Play Hide and Seek is the first of JaJaJa’s books to have an accompanying audio story and we were so pleased when JaJaJa Books agreed to make their audio story and book available for our StoryPhones customers to buy via our download store.

The Lucy and Lucia Play Hide and Seek audio story is available from the BookShelf download store priced at £1.99, you can buy the book to accompany this for £5.99 or buy both for £7.99.

JaJaJa Books were Winner of the year in Jacqueline Gold’s WOW business competition (2011) and are now an approved Learning Destination with the Children’s University. Lucy and Lucia Play Hide and Seek was voted book of the month by Prima Baby magazine and voted Resource of the week by the Times Educational Supplement.

The Lucy and Lucia stories are part of a series of books written by Genevieve and you can find out more about these stories by visiting the JaJaJa Books website here.

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Bug Club is the brilliant new, award winning whole school reading programme from Pearson Education. Bug Club connects printed books with online ebooks so that children can read the printed book then log onto the school Bug Club site and read the books online, at school or at home. The banded books come in various formats and sizes covering different genres such as fiction, non fiction and comics. Many of the stories are based on popular characters from fiction and TV such as Ben 10 and Angelina Ballerina, which will be very appealing to children.

The ebooks have accompanying audio tracks and StoryPhones have been working in collaboration with Pearson to make these audio tracks available as stand alone MP3 audio stories via the BookShelf download store. We have  thoroughly enjoyed working with all the wonderful people at Pearson Education to make these titles available to our StoryPhones customers. These MP3 audio titles from The Bug Club reading programme are currently only available from the StoryPhones download store.

Now Available in the BookShelf Download Store

Bug Club Readers are available in sets (number of titles may vary), or as individual titles. Prices include a site license for use through out your school. Download our BookShelf Resources catalogue for more information.

You can list to a clip of Pete’s Peculiar Pet Shop The Very Smelly Dragon here.

In January we added the Jolly Songs and Spoken Guide to our download store. These audio resources support the synthetic phonics programme produced by Jolly Learning. Jolly Phonics is used in schools around the world and is highly successful way of teaching young children to read.

Jolly Phonics is a structured, multi sensory approach to teaching reading and as part of the available resources, has a set of graded, decodeable reading books to support new readers.

We are thrilled that Jolly Learning have made the audio tracks to accompany these readers available for our customers through our download store, BookShelf.

The Jolly Readers are available in three sets, Red, Yellow and Green level. Each level consists of 18 books and includes stories about Inky, Snake and Bee, general fiction and non fiction. Each book is written with decodeable text and introduces tricky words as appropriate. As children progress through the levels, the sentences lengthen and more tricky words are introduced. All of these titles are now available to download from the BookShelf download store.

Each audio book is carefully recorded to make it easy for children to follow the text. Generous timing between each page gives children time to move from page to page, and page turns are clearly signaled. Children will easily follow the stories supporting their emerging reading skills and giving them confidence to become independent readers.

The audio stories are available to purchase and download in sets of 6 titles priced from £4.00 a set, or you can download a whole level of 18 tracks from £11.95. All audio titles include the site license for use throughout the school on your StoryPhones systems or MP3 players.

Why not listen to a sample from the Jolly Readers Red Level.