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Raising Kids Who Love to Read with Disney Story Central App

By Kira Lewis 7 Comments

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Raising Kids Who Love to Read – Disney Story Central App

Looking for a way to help kids develop a passion for reading at an early age? There are so many tools at our disposal, especially with today's technology. Kids love Disney and they love to play on the iPad or iPhone. Combine the two and you've got  Disney Story Central, a new app that has over 175 Disney stories with all of your kids favorite characters. For beginning readers, the app will read the story for them and more advanced readers can read on their own and earn stars and badges for their reading accomplishments. Raising Kids who Love to Read with Disney's Story Central App. SunshineandHurricanes.com

Michelle and I are both HUGE readers. We are always exchanging our favorite reads and talking about what books we want to read next.   Last year, we even formed a book club to help carve out time in our busy lives to support our passion. This is why as moms, it is important to both of us that our children develop their own passion for reading.

I recently discovered Disney’s Story Central and after we downloaded the app to our iPad my daughter immediately sat down and read a half dozen books in an hour. I knew we’d found a winner! She actually squealed with excitement when she discovered there were books from the latest Cinderella movie. Plus, she found many of her other favorite characters too like Anna and Elsa from Frozen and Sofia the First.

Raising Kids Who Love to Read - Disney Story Central App. SunshineandHurricanes.com

Of course, we couldn’t wait to share our new find with friends, and so the next time we got together with Michelle and her kids, we told them all about Disney Story Central and our three girls spent half the afternoon reading books together on the app. One of their favorites was a Big Hero Six digital book.

Raising Kids Who Love to Read with Disney Story Central App Big Hero Six

It shouldn’t be surprising that Disney Story Central would appeal to our Disney loving kiddos. It has the largest collection of Disney digital stories with hundreds of titles featuring all the Disney characters that kids know and love. If you have multiple children in your family who will be using the app, there is a variety of content for pre-readers, speed readers and everything in between. You can even create customizable bookshelves for each child’s selection with a Disney character avatar they select, which will also provide personalized reading recommendations.

Raising Kids Who Love to Read. Disney Story Central App. SunshineandHurricanes.com
My daughter liked the  “Browse By Character” feature that allowed her to easily find books with all her favorite characters. But, by far, her favorite part about the app was that she could earn stars, trophies and even special badges as she read more books. She’s a pretty competitive little thing, and her desire to reach the next level and earn a new reward was VERY motivating.  She couldn’t wait to come show me each time she’d accomplished something new in the app.

Raising Kids Who Love to Read with Disney Story Central App. SunshineandHurricanes.com

There are two ways to access books on Disney Story Central; you can either sign-up for an annual subscription at $7.99 a month or select a-la-carte options, using Disney Book Tokens.

  • The subscription service gives kids unlimited access to Disney Story Central’s expansive library of books
  • The tokens work like currency with each token being worth one book download

Also, now that it is is summer, we definitely don’t want our kids to fall into the summer slide and lose some of those reading skills they’ve worked so hard on all school year. Once you have the app, your kids will be eligible to participate in Disney Story Central’s ‘Mid-Summer Light Reads’ Campaign. The program promotes weekly Disney reading themes and gives young readers a chance to earn badges and unlock free books. There is even a  sweepstakes you can enter! The campaign launches on June 11 and will run through August 13.

Raising Kids Who Love to Read with Disney Story Central App. SunshineandHurricanes.com

Overall, I loved that Disney Story Central is designed to support parents in their efforts to encourage kids to develop a lifetime love of reading. The cross-platform experience is available via iPhone and iPad app, tablet-optimized website and Video on Demand (AT&T U-Verse) making it accessible at home and on the go. This makes it a GREAT option for educational entertainment when traveling with kids.

To learn more about this new reading tool for your family visit the Disney Story Central website or head right on over and download the app in the iTunes store.

Raising Kids Who Love to Read with Disney's Story Central App. SunshineandHurricanes.com

I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.

Filed Under: Apps, Technology Tagged With: Disney, Disney Apps, Disney Books, Disney Movie Books, Disney Princess Books, Disney Story Central, Disney TV books

About Kira Lewis

Kira Lewis is a mom to a strong and sassy 8 year old girl and a funny, soccer playing teen boy.  Her career has included everything from corporate ladder climbing to teaching yoga. She's settled for now on free-lance writing and blogging where she covers topics like motherhood, parenting, technology, Florida travel and raising tweens and teens.Keep up with her parental musings by subscribing to sunshine and hurricane's weekly newsletter HERE.

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Comments

  1. Aleshea Dominique says

    June 16, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    This is great. As a kid all I wanted to do was read. You don’t find that as much anymore

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  2. Erica @ The Crumby Cupcake says

    June 15, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    I was big into reading as a child thanks to my Papa reading to me every night, and I plan to teach my children the same way, and to instill how important it is in them. Leave it to Disney to think of everything – I’m also a huge Disney fan, and I imagine that will carry over to my children, so this will be a great supplement to their reading careers!

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  3. Sue Lau says

    June 15, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    Looks like something I would have bought when my daughter was young. She grew up before they had things like this in app form. I used to get the talking books. If they would have had these at the time I would much preferred them, as she always enjoyed their products.

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  4. Brenda @Schooling a Monkey says

    June 15, 2015 at 11:14 am

    I love that your kids are reading a Big Hero 6 story. My girls love that series.

    Reply
    • Michelle Myers says

      June 15, 2015 at 2:00 pm

      Yes! While are girls are fairly interested in books regardless of gender stereotypes, I can’t quite say the same thing about my son…princesses are not on his reading list!

      Reply
  5. Joyce Brewer (@MommyTalkShow) says

    June 15, 2015 at 9:30 am

    Love this. Our 5 year old is a voracious reader. Getting this app TODAY!

    Reply

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