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The books are separated by sections \u2013 Bedtime Stories, Winter + Winter Holidays, New Releases, Award Winners and more!<\/p>\n
A selection of favorites:<\/strong> I’ve enjoyed watching the app grow and spoke with Melody Furze, Director of Educational Development at Novel Effect, Inc. to hear more.<\/p>\n How many children\u2019s books do you have currently and will you continue to add more books?<\/strong> What is the next Novel Effect phase?<\/strong> You mentioned a recording feature and sharing within the app?\u00a0 Will children have the opportunity to record their own sounds?<\/strong> Will you add books for older readers – theater scripts?<\/strong> Are you going to be at ALA Midwinter in Denver?\u00a0<\/strong> Yes! We will be featured in the Mobile Applications Pavilion. Visitors to our booth will be able to demo the app, check out our titles and chat with staff to see how they can use Novel Effect to enhance their storytimes and programs. The app is free to download in the App Store.\u00a0 We are very excited to be at ALA. Librarians are some of our biggest fans and to be able to network with the literary world and demo our app to new users is a great opportunity. Do you have a favorite book app?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":17251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[703],"tags":[801,523,883,117],"class_list":["post-17252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogger-paige-bentley-flannery","tag-apps","tag-digital-content","tag-library-programs","tag-storytime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWolfie The Bunny<\/em> by Ame Dyckman<\/a>
\nThe Snowy Day<\/em> by Ezra Jack Keats<\/a>
\nBe Who You Are<\/em> by Todd Parr<\/a>
\nDuck! Rabbit!<\/em>\u00a0by Amy Krouse Rosenthal<\/a>
\nBear Snores On<\/em> by Karma Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n
\nOur goal right now is ten titles per week. We started two years ago with a few titles and now we have over 80<\/a>!\u00a0 We want to add books that children enjoy and titles that storytellers love to read. We are always open to suggestions for titles. We aim to offer classics – new, exciting, titles and everything in between.<\/p>\n
\nYes!\u00a0 We are very excited about expanding our offering as a groundbreaking startup in voice technology. In the coming months, we will be releasing our studio product which will allow anyone; users, and authors to create a voice interactive soundtrack for a story. We are also developing features that will ask users to record specific sound effects (i.e., a lion\u2019s roar, a cow\u2019s moo, a race car) and those will be populated into a soundscape as a sort of audio MadLibs and the sounds they provide will serve as the soundscape for the story. We also plan to let users create story playlists that teachers and parents can share with one another. So if you\u2019re an educator and there\u2019s a specific theme or lesson you\u2019re working on, you can keep all those titles in one, easily accessible list and you can share it with other educators or even parents and really strengthen those home\/school connections that we know are so important for young learners.<\/p>\n
\nYes, the expansion of content comes with the roll out of the studio which will really increase what we\u2019re able to do with our soundscapes. Be on the lookout for its release in the coming months.<\/p>\n
\nThank you Melody!\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to hearing more about Novel Effect at ALA, talking with your staff,and hearing about your expansion for older reader\u2019s theater and the ability for children to record their owns sounds.\u00a0 Quack! Moo! Beep! Beep!
\nExplore more at www.noveleffect.com<\/a> or contact Melody, Director of Educational Development at melody@noveleffect.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"