The material is mainly suitable for primary school children, though there is enough stuff to get a middle-school teacher excited. It’s designed for a teacher and a classroom, where you set up readers inside your online reading “classroom,” though you can import students from Google Classroom.
The child will then presumably pressure the parents to pay for the out-of-hours experience….
#Epic books my account free#
Who should be interested in this? Parents are the primary target - whereby Epic will get a standing order for roughly US$7/month and children get 24/7 access to 25,000 “high-quality kids’ books, videos & more!” But teachers get a sweet deal via free educational accounts which allow them to set up student logins for their online “classroom” - which is free and available for children to access during school hours 5 days a week (where “school hours” seems to mean not after 5pm at night). It’s a fathomless source of both schlock and gold with an interface that insists on being in control of the browsing experience. Overall, this app is very well-put-together, and if you are interested in paying a monthly subscription fee for your child to get books every month, $4.99 is less than the price of one book.Īs long as you commit to read more than one book a month with your child, and would buy it otherwise, this app will pay for itself and you will be bonding with your child through his or her education.Epic Books has rightly been called the Netflix of children’s ebooks & audio books. If I could view a list of suggested books prior to registering, than I could at least take the list to the library, but as it is, I can’t access anything but the sign-up portion.
#Epic books my account registration#
The books available cover a great range of interests, and are selected for you children based on the interests that they select in the registration process. Reading journal for tracking previous books read and how your child is improvingĮPIC! - Books for Kids is an iPad subscription library service that includes many popular titles, many new titles, and many classic titles.While I appreciate that the company is trying to get a subscription service going, local libraries need to be used too, even if it is just for the free digital downloads. I can get a library card for free, and most libraries have digital downloads too that are also free.
If you don’t remember to cancel you are automatically charged $4.99 every month.
See our best book apps list for more options.ĮPIC! - Books for Kids, as mentioned above, does not let you try the app without committing to automatic renewal following the free month. The app creates a reading journal that your child can personalize with their name, an avatar, frame, color, and more. Epic also now includes Spanish books and Chinese books. The library contains everything from picture books to chapter books, early readers, audiobooks, graphic novels, non-fiction titles, educational books, videos and more.
#Epic books my account series#
Some titles that are advertised are Scaredy Squirrel, Olivia, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Berenstain Bears, as well as many classicsĪnd well-known story books for kids and series that include Fancy Nancy, Flat Stanley, Warriors, Biscuit, National Geographic Kids, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Batman, Goosebumps, Clifford, Goodnight Moon, Big Nate, and many more. This app has a great selection of books but as mentioned above, you can’t try even one without committing to a $4.99 renewal following your free month. Thankfully, kids also still love the tactile feel of a book in their hands too, as exhibited by my two-year-old who has had technology her whole life. EPIC! - Books for Kids brings reading to the tablet, and kids love playing with tablets.