Why families read with Wonder Teller

A library that grows with your reader

Wonder Teller’s library holds more than 150 illustrated books, and it keeps growing. There are tiny phonics readers that practice one sound at a time, picture books from gentle first stories to longer adventures, and first chapter books for children ready for bigger journeys.

Some books are Wonder Teller originals. Many are careful retellings of public-domain classics, from Aesop’s fables and fairy tales to The Velveteen Rabbit and The Secret Garden, rewritten in clear language for each age and newly illustrated. There are biographies and science explainers, too.

Every book has a reading level, from phonics through level 7, and an age band, so the right next book is easy to find. You can browse the whole library and read the first pages of any book for free, without an account.

Read-along you can steer

Press play and a warm reading voice reads the page while each sentence lights up (a long sentence lights up a phrase at a time), so a child’s eyes and ears stay on the same words.

You set the pace. Read one sentence at a time for practice, a page at a time for a bedtime routine, or let the whole book play on its own. Slow the voice down for a new reader, or play a sentence again.

Books through level 6 come with a reading voice. Level 7 chapter books are made for children ready to read on their own.

A shelf for each child

Each child profile has its own shelf, so an older sibling’s chapter books never crowd out a younger one’s phonics readers.

Parent mode sits behind a grown-up check, a quick question a child can’t guess their way past. From there you choose the books on each shelf, set each child’s reading age, pick the language their words are explained in, and look over the words they saved while reading.

And there are no ads, ever.

Full screen, nothing else

Tap full screen and the reader fills the display. The controls step aside while your child reads, so all that’s left is the picture and the words, and a tap brings them back.

It works on a tablet, a phone, or a computer, with large, clear type you can make bigger or smaller.

Bring your own books

Have a favorite book at home, a school reader, or a story your child wrote? Take photos of the pages or import a PDF. Wonder Teller recognizes the words and reads them aloud, with the same read-along and word explanations as the library.

You can fix any recognized text, and add or remove pages, at any time.

When the words on a photo can be located, Page Focus lets your child read the original page itself: the sentence being read is outlined right on the photo, so a familiar book looks just like it does on the shelf.

Tap a word, a phrase, or a whole sentence

Young readers meet new words on every page. With Wonder Explorer, a child taps a word, or selects a phrase or a whole sentence, and gets a short explanation written for young children and read aloud, without leaving the page.

Explanations use the story itself, so a word like “discover” is explained the way it’s used on that page, not as a dictionary entry.

Save word keeps a new favorite on the child’s word list, so you can look back at it together later.

Reading and listening, together

Following the words while hearing a story read well helps children connect the sounds they know to the letters on the page, pick up new vocabulary, and hear what fluent, expressive reading sounds like. That’s true for every young reader, including children who speak English at home.

Because the reading voice is always there, a child can enjoy a book a little above what they can read alone, then come back and read it again with less help.

For bilingual families there’s a bonus: each child’s word explanations can be in English, Español, or 中文. A child reading an English story can hear what a word means in the language spoken at home.