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A simple parent guide to the reading check, personalized phonics books, Practice Den teaching and revision, and progress dashboards.
Sit with your child and choose either a story idea or a school topic. Story ideas become matched books; school topics become short lessons with checks and review.
Type the idea, or use voice input when available. Families can create storybooks in multiple languages, including right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Urdu.
The app creates an illustrated storybook matched to the reader, or a Practice Den lesson with a quiz, worksheet, and revision.
Your story opens like a real book. Flip through pages, use narration if you want it, and talk about the story together.
Your child's idea becomes an illustrated phonics book matched to their age and reading stage.
Try: “A penguin who learns to fly” or “Omar and his cat find a treasure map”
Turn a school topic into a scripted lesson you can teach at home, plus a quiz, worksheet, and review. Homeschool families build their week on it; school families use it for revision. The app chooses the right teaching style for history, science, geography, vocabulary, or other concepts.
Try: “Teach me about Ancient Egypt” or “How do circuits work?”
How to switch: On the creator, choose Storybook for a personalized book or School topic for Practice Den-style revision. The app handles the right teaching style.
Once your story is ready, it opens like a real storybook. Here's what you can do:
Use the left/right arrows or swipe. You'll hear a gentle page-turn sound — kids love it.
Tap the play button to have Mama Bear or Papa Bear read the page aloud. Words highlight one by one.
Tap the auto-play button and the story reads itself, page by page. Perfect for bedtime.
Toggle ambient sounds on/off with the music icon. Soft sounds create a cozy reading atmosphere.
Each story includes a vocabulary word with a kid-friendly definition at the bottom of the page.
The last page has a discussion question. Talk about it together — great for building comprehension.
Pick from two voices:
As the narrator reads, each word lights up in real time. This helps your child:
Tip: For non-English stories, the narration automatically switches to a native speaker in that language (Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, French, Spanish, Chinese).
The 49-lesson Reading Journey is the guided phonics path for Level 1-3 readers. Each step becomes a storybook at your child's level, and your feedback helps decide when to repeat, review, or move on. Older readers can use storybooks and Practice Den for fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and school-topic revision.
Available inside the guided reading path during beta.
For early readers, you'll see the current phonics focus, a fun action to do together, and a parent guide telling you exactly what to say.
Choose "Tell your own story" to narrate an idea together, or "Auto-generate" for a quick story. Either way, the phonics focus is built into the book.
The narrator reads aloud while each word lights up. Point to the words and ask your child to spot the target sound. "Can you find all the S words?"
After the book, one quick tap: got it, or found it tricky? Tricky days simply repeat the sound with a fresh story. After every 6 sounds there's a "blending party" combining sounds into real words. By lesson 49, your child can sound out and read simple sentences on their own.
Every book your child makes stands on their shelf. Re-read them anytime, download a printable PDF, or print at home. Shipped hardcover ordering is coming soon. Find the shelf by clicking “Home” in the top navigation.
Every story can be downloaded as a beautifully formatted PDF. Print it at home, email it to grandparents, or save it to read offline. Tap the download icon in the story viewer.
Every story can already be downloaded as a printable PDF for home printing. We're preparing shipped hardcover books so families can turn favourite stories into keepsakes.
For now, use PDF downloads if you want to print at home.
Little Story Bear supports 20+ languages. Here's how it works:
Bilingual families: Families can use English for the 49-lesson Reading Journey and their home language for Story mode. This offers reading and conversation practice in both languages; it does not measure bilingual literacy growth.
A short, repeatable session is often easier for a family to sustain. Try making it part of your routine — after dinner, before bed, or during breakfast.
Let your child choose the story idea. Ownership helps them care about the book, especially when the reading is hard.
Point to words as they light up. Ask: “What sound does this word start with?” or “Can you find the word 'big' on this page?”
Every sound practised, every word attempted, every story finished. High fives, stickers, or just a “I'm so proud of you!” goes a long way.
Ask open questions: “What was your favourite part?”, “What do you think happens next?”, “How did the character feel?” This gives them a chance to practise explaining and inferring.
This works best as shared reading with a digital book. Sit together, read together, and talk together.
Stories pass through automated safety layers before your child sees them. We filter inappropriate content, block harmful prompts, keep adults in control of child accounts, and do not offer open child chat. AI can still make mistakes, so adults should review generated books.
Create your first story for free — no credit card needed.