We really love books at our house.
The big kids read alone and aloud.
The little kids ‘read’ out LOUD.
Actually as I type, Lydia is reading “Miss Nelson is Missing” to Alden.
(I could listen to her sweet voice reading forever, I think.)
Typically my girls are story buddies and my boys are story buddies.
But we recently had a chance to invite Cooper, one of Hallmark’s Story Buddies, to our house.
We all absolutely love Cooper.
We’ve been reading with him for a few weeks and the kids all still giggle when he responds.
The only downside is that sometimes Cooper has a hard time understanding Lydia.
Her reading voice is so small that I think he just can’t hear her all the time.
(The packaging does tell you that
Listen to this adorableness.
(Theirs, not mine.)
(And ignore the snapping.)
(And the disinterested toddler.)
(And the less-than-stellar videography.)
And as I was writing this, I discovered that there was a Cooper iPhone app!
We just uploaded it and WOW!
You can have the book read aloud by the pre-recorded voice and Cooper talks back to it
OR you can record your own voice (or maybe even a grand parent’s voice) and have it read the story!
Check it out:
Lydia’s already asked if we could get more books in the series!
Off to Hallmark!
I was once again able to work with Hallmark and they did send Cooper and his first book to our house for us to enjoy and review. However, the opinions above are 100% mine (well…ours). We super-duper love him and I know you’ll have fun with the whole line of their Interactive Story Buddies.
