Each of our stories has been formatted with this patent-pending design. The words appear on your device at reading pace, keeping you in the story.
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Directions:
1. Have the child watch and listen to the first step. Each is approximately sixty seconds long and highlights selected sight words. They should repeat this as many times as they need, until they know the story. They are ready to move on once they begin reciting it.
2. When the child is ready, have them move on to the second step book. Second step books are no longer narrated, but the child does not need it–this patent-pending program utilizes music to trigger memory, enabling the child to recall the sight words from the first step book that they had been enjoying.
3. Each of the books in this program comes with a free downloadable sight words worksheet to test the child’s progress, should you chose to do so.
First Step
Second Step
Sight Words Worksheet
Hickory Dickory Dock
Directions:
1. Have the child watch and listen to the first step. Each is approximately sixty seconds long and highlights selected sight words. They should repeat this as many times as they need, until they know the story. They are ready to move on once they begin reciting it.
2. When the child is ready, have them move on to the second step book. Second step books are no longer narrated, but the child does not need it–this patent-pending program utilizes music to trigger memory, enabling the child to recall the sight words from the first step book that they had been enjoying.
3. Each of the books in this program comes with a free downloadable sight words worksheet to test the child’s progress, should you chose to do so.
First Step
Second Step
Sight Words Worksheet
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Directions:
1. Have the child watch and listen to the first step. Each is approximately sixty seconds long and highlights selected sight words. They should repeat this as many times as they need, until they know the story. They are ready to move on once they begin reciting it.
2. When the child is ready, have them move on to the second step book. Second step books are no longer narrated, but the child does not need it–this patent-pending program utilizes music to trigger memory, enabling the child to recall the sight words from the first step book that they had been enjoying.
3. Each of the books in this program comes with a free downloadable sight words worksheet to test the child’s progress, should you chose to do so.
First Step
Second Step
Sight Words Worksheet:
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Music moves us. It drives our emotions. It breathes life into stories. Why would you read books any other way?
The Farmer and His Wife
A whimsically told tale of a Farmer and his Wife as they find and settle their Farm.
“You see, they are Farmers already. Have been for forever so long. A Farmer isn’t something you become. It’s something you are. Just like you don’t become a Baker or a Candlestick Maker. You are born one. And they were born Farmers.”
Full length novel.
The Newstead Project
Joel Cranston’s the luckiest guy ever. He’s just been scouted by Newstead, a blue-chip private school in Vermont. He’s just what they’re looking for: tall, athletic, trainable. He’ll fit right in with the hundred or so other guys already there–and he should. He’s their genetic match. But will that be enough for Joel to survive what is The Newstead Project? Full length novel.
Sisters Grimm
An ongoing collection of parables, fables, and fairy tales anonymously told from todays most influential women. A new tale to be added weekly until all the tales we have to tell are complete. Online, musically enhanced edition. *a portion of the proceeds to be given to CompassCare, a nonprofit that helps women in crisis.
2084
Society has evolved. Peace abounds. Disease is a thing of the past. Precipitation does not exist–it is not needed—in the regulated atmosphere, plant life receives its nourishment from the ground, resulting in extensive yields. Each member of Society is properly utilized–having gone through a series of gene testing to best determine the roles suited to them–to determine their traits. Their abilities. All is well. Until…
Cinderella
Charles Perrault’s beloved classic brilliantly retold in this masterpiece. Featuring an original musical score by Nathan Moran and artwork by Jessica Gadra. Narrated by Melanie Schulz.
The Reader
Strange things happen to Liz Brown. Buildings fall down. Libraries start on fire. But the strangest of all is him–the phoenix who expects her to drop everything and follow him. Book one of a Novella trilogy.
The Writer
With Adam gone, Liz is faced with the truth that a Reader is useless without a Book. Determined to find him again, she comes out of hiding only to discover another truth: every Book has a Writer. Second book in a Novella trilogy.
The Open Book
Liz has called and The Open Book has responded. Now only two questions remain: Was it a good idea for the three of them to be in one place? And what if Liz wasn’t the one who planned it that way? Third book in Novella trilogy.
A Glowworm
The world at war is over.
Ilse is left in the rubble that Germany has become. Childhood and it’s dreams are things of the past; and with it’s passing comes life’s hardest lesson: survival takes sacrifice.
Haunted
This parallel universe themed short story by Melanie Schulz, first featured in the anthology Parallels: Felix Was Here, is sure to haunt you.
Shifting Sands
Shifting Sands is a prequel to Past Due, the first book in the Coulter Men series. In the series, each of the three Coulter brothers has his chance to tell his story and find his happily ever after. In this story, Angel, the broken girl who sets the stage for her sister’s tragedy, gets a chance to tell hers.
Just Leave
A Craigslist sale gone wrong.
A Creature Stirring
Alfie loves to tell stories to his sister–until the worst one of all comes true.
When Tommorow Comes
The end of the world has come with a shutter and a roar, and out of the ashes will rise a new generation.
Suburban Legend
Turns out not all suburban legends are real, but some of them are, and some of them can happen to you.
Scuttle
I never thought that buying a gallon of milk would prove to be fatal–begins this haunting tale by Milo James Fowler.
Breathe
Big sisters can be a pain, and so can their boyfriends. But sometimes little brothers can surprise you.
Grandpa's Bluetooth
Visiting Grandpa isn’t what it used to be in this Flash Fiction by Milo James Fowler. Freed Books edition
In Lord Shadow's House
Jarius Knigglesby has a problem, besides his unfortunate name. He wants something and will give anything to have it. And he does. A Halloween Tale.
Alphabet Soup
A collection of dark flash fiction by Melanie Schulz, each lasting approximately two minutes, and each corresponding with a letter in the alphabet.
Books for children ages 2-5