Today Apple launched a new Apple TV app named iBooks StoryTime:
iBooks StoryTime gives your family a different way to experience classic kids’ books and discover new favorites. With Read-Aloud narration and beautiful illustrations, every handpicked title in the app transforms Apple TV into an engaging place for young readers to enjoy the stories they love.
As the Read-Aloud narration completes a page, it automatically turns to the next one. The narration comes complete with different character voices, sound effects, and is made word-for-word so kids can follow along.
The narration can be disabled, allowing a parent or teacher to read the on-screen text and advance the pages via the Siri Remote. I can see this being in use not only in homes, but in schools as well.
While I like that this app will be able to read to my kids, I love that I’ll be able to turn that off and read to them with the big screen over my shoulder for them to follow along.