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Storybooks Canada
Storybooks Canada offers illustrated stories with text and audio in English, French and many immigrant and refugee languages.
The stories come from African Storybook and are grouped by reading level, from short level-one tales to longer narratives. Since each story exists in many languages, a child can hear it in a home language and then again in a language they are learning. Animal characters, folktales and everyday scenes all turn up.
- Ages
- Early readers and multilingual families
- Works on
- Web browser
- Topics
- Reading, Languages
- Languages
- English, French, Multilingual immigrant and refugee languages
- Listed
- 2026-10-11
What kids do
- Pick a story by level
- Listen to the narration
- Compare two language versions
- Read an African folktale
Who it suits
Meant for early readers and multilingual families. The levels describe the text rather than an age, so an older child new to a language might start low.
Notes for parents
Text and audio sit side by side on every story. Some of the longer ones touch on bigger topics a family may want to talk through.
In these guides
- Children’s books in your family’s language: online libraries from isiZulu to ASL: Online libraries of children’s picture books in Hindi, Kiswahili, isiZulu, French, Indigenous languages, American Sign Language and many more.
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- Reading.com: A parent and child go through scripted phonics lessons together, followed by decodable stories and practice games.
- Reading Eggs: Pre-reading, first reading, systematic phonics and later comprehension are split into separate programs aimed at different ages.
- Teach Your Monster to Read: Children design a monster and take it through games that match letters to sounds, blend words and read sentences.
- Hooked on Phonics Learning: Guided reading activities come with an ebook library meant to go alongside the lessons.
- Teach Monster: Reading for Fun: Recipes, signs and instructions are the reading material in a village adventure where helping characters earns books for a monster’s shelf.
- Vooks: Animated storybooks with narration, where each word is highlighted as it is read aloud.
- Endless Reader: Animated words are built letter by letter, dropped into short sentence puzzles and then acted out in a little scene.