For the grown-ups who read aloud

Children's books are deeper than they look.

Turn children's books into real conversations.

Identity, courage, forgiveness, belonging: the ideas in a children's book are as substantial as anything on a high school reading list, only at a lower reading level. Storytime Guru helps you see that depth and talk it through with your child.

The Storytime Guru Reading Guide for Last Stop on Market Street, showing a question to ask, the answer for the reader, and a Go Deeper link.

How it works

Open the book, ask the questions, keep going.

  1. Step 01

    Find a book

    Browse by theme, or search a title you already own.

    Finding books filtered by the Friendship theme.
  2. Step 02

    Add it to your shelf

    See what the book explores before you read it.

    A book page for Chrysanthemum showing what the book explores.
  3. Step 03

    Read the guide aloud

    Ask the questions as you go. Tap Go Deeper for the fuller answer, for you.

    A Reading Guide question with the answer underneath and a Go Deeper link.
  4. Step 04

    Mark it read

    Your shelf shows every book you have shared.

    My Bookshelf, with books grouped into To Read and Finished.

What's inside

A library built for reading aloud.

102
children's books
700+
Reading Guide questions
  • Every book in the library
  • The full Reading Guide for every book
  • Read/Unread tracking across the whole library
  • New books added throughout the year

Six books are free for everyone. A subscription opens the rest of the library.

The full Storytime Guru library, listed A to Z, showing 102 books.
The Storytime Guru launch screen with a quotation from Nelson Mandela.

Made for the grown-up, not the child

The book stays the artifact. You stay the narrator.

Storytime Guru is not a digital reader. The physical children's book stays in your hands and the story stays in your voice; the app sits beside the two of you, never between you.

There are no accounts and no ads, nothing about your child is collected, and what you do in the app stays on your device.

Get the app

Start with six books, free.

Storytime Guru is available for iPhone and Android.