PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 29, 2010 – Seattle, Washington, USA – iReadandLearn.com, a company dedicated to creating quality iPhone applications of narrated children’s books and learning tools is collaborating with two literacy organizations to financially support reading programs and help at-risk children with tools for learning how to read.
A portion of iPhone application sales from iReadandLearn.com children's series of titles, iMotherGoose will be supporting two Seattle, Washington based non-profit literacy organizations, Page Ahead and Team Read. Page Ahead provides literacy programs that empower at-risk children, and have placed almost 1.7 million new books into the hands of 550,000 kids through collaboration with schools, social service agencies, preschools, and early childhood centers. Team Read is an innovative after-school tutoring program of the Seattle Public Schools that develops reading skills of at-risk 2nd and 3rd grade students through year-long tutoring by teen tutors.
Executive Director for Page Ahead, Susan Dibble, is excited to collaborate with iReadandLearn.com and affirms, “Reading is the skill on which all others are based, and giving at-risk children the tools and inspiration to read is our mission here at Page Ahead”. Dibble adds, “Being a part of iMotherGoose is so exciting for us because parents are buying an application that gives their kids a portable library while ultimately helping to put a book in the hands of a child who needs one.”
iReadandLearn.com develops iPhone applications for children and has over 20 titles that are both entertaining and educational, priced at .99 cents each. Robin Klein, founder and creator of iReadandLearn.com explains, “Our stories and educational tools are narrated so it makes learning interactive and interesting and we find that kids really like to engage with this format.” She adds, “We support other charitable organizations as well and are excited to collaborate with Page Ahead and Team Read because these organizations align with iReadandLearn’s vision to encourage children to read.”
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iReadandLearn.com Brings Children’s Classic Storytelling Applications to iPhone Users
First product line iMotherGoose with narrated storytelling titles, announces the release of several children’s classic stories, nursery rhymes, original stories and educational apps on the iPhone
Folsom, CA (PRWEB) January 13, 2010 -- iReadandLearn.com, a company dedicated to creating quality iPhone applications for children launched its first product line of children’s titles called iMotherGoose that includes classic stories, educational apps, original stories, and nursery rhymes. Each application is illustrated with original art from local artists and narrated for children to enjoy, featuring easy, self-paced touch screen for little hands to navigate.
iMotherGoose is a product line of iReadandLearn.com, a company owned and created by Robin Klein to create quality children’s applications for the iPhone parent. Foreman says, “I hope to offer parents apps that are both entertaining and educational for their children, it is a great way to sit and read with your children, or keep them busy when you are traveling, shopping or in the car together – they are interactive and entertaining.”
Current titles available include Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Three Little Pigs, Tiggers Makes Breakfast, and children’s holiday favorites, The Night Before Christmas, and Buttons, the Gingerbread Boy and the Christmas Wish. Educational apps include iMotherGoose’s Counting Book: 0 to 100, iDoggie, iBugs, and the Dolch Sight Words Flash Card Series. Each application is .99 cents available through the Apple iTunes App Store with more released and available in the coming months, including some original stories.
A portion of the revenue generated from the iMotherGoose applications will benefit charities chosen by each of the artists and include Page Ahead, a non-profit children’s literacy program that collaborates with families, schools, and social service agencies to inspire a love of reading for at-risk children; Sacramento Children’s Home, an organization committed to helping build strong families and ending the cycle of child abuse; Angel Tree, a ministry that reaches out to children of inmates and their families; Eureka School Foundation (ESF) to fund art, music and sports programs for kids in Eureka Unified Public School District; Friends of NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit), a non-profit dedicated to providing a helping hand to needy families with babies in the NICU; Sweet Dreams Foundation, a non-profit that designs dream bedrooms for children who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease; Buckland Equine Rescue Inc., a non- profit charity that rescues and rehabilitates horses; and Team Read, a program dedicated to help at risk children learn to read.
About iReadandLearn.com
iReadandLearn.com is dedicated to creating quality iPhone applications for children with its first product line, iMotherGoose which includes both classic children stories, educational apps and original children stories. Each app is illustrated with original art and lovingly narrated for children with a portion of the proceeds benefitting select charities. For more information about the company please visit www.ireadandlearn.com.
