Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books Review

Novel Effect is an award-winning Android app that brings a magical experience to reading time. The app follows your voice as you read out loud from a children’s storybook and responds at just the right moment with interactive music, sound effects, and character voices. It promotes literacy, imagination, and fun for kids 12 & under.

Novel Effect offers three versions of the service, including Free, Premium, and Classroom. The Free version offers hundreds of soundscapes for a library of children’s books curated for teachers, librarians, kids, and families. The Premium version offers unlimited access to a library of kid-friendly content, including soundscapes for popular children’s books and exclusive members-only content. The Classroom version offers unlimited access to premium features and content for one teacher and up to 30 students in a safe and secure environment.

Novel Effect‘s service follows along as you read out loud, playing interactive music, sound effects, and character voices in response to your voice. The library includes a wide variety of high-quality soundscapes for carefully selected family-friendly books to engage and promote imagination and learning, updated weekly with new titles. Novel Effect is a Parents’ Choice and Mom’s Choice app, a Webby and Cynopsis Award winner for best interactive experience, and an AASL Best Digital Tools winner.