What's New

- We've fixed the audio/microphone issue with iOS8.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

If you are still experiencing difficulties with your app, please contact us at [email protected].

App Description

**A Parents’ Choice Recommended Award Winner!**
Get your child ready to learn how to read with Curious George!
Based on Margret Rey and H. A. Rey’s children’s book and the hit PBS KIDS TV series, this animated story featuring Curious George is part of iRead With, a new read-aloud program created to foster language development and help preschoolers get ready to read.

When the man with the yellow hat tells George that he is planning a surprise, of course George is curious. Before long George finds a hat, noisemakers, decorations, and games. It must be a birthday! But whose birthday is it? That’s the surprise!

“Tribal Nova has a recipe for success with their shared-reading method. Following the successful launches of their previous iRead With apps (Curious George: Goes Camping and the Firefighters), Curious George and the Birthday Surprise will surely win the hearts of young and young-at-heart readers." - Fun Educational Apps

“This delightful and engaging ebook version of a classic Curious George tale is perfect for young readers. Brought to you by the developers at Tribal Nova, this “iRead With” ebook has many features that make it an excellent option to support literacy learning using mobile technology." - Smart Apps For Kids

iRead With animated stories encourage a participative reading experience engaging both child and parent. This new shared-reading method was created in conjunction with University of McGill University Child Phonology Lab, where extensive research shows that the most effective read-alouds are those where children are actively involved.


READ AND TALK
Narrative sequences are punctuated by prompts and conversation starters, inviting parent and child to talk about the story and the world around us.

PRIMARY SKILLS DEVELOPED
Foundational literacy skills, speech and oral language, vocabulary, phonological awareness, emergent literacy concepts, narrative skills and comprehension strategies.

TAP WORDS
Touch Living Words to trigger sounds and animations!

ENGAGING ANIMATIONS
Animations are tied to the story to create a meaningful experience. Tap them to find a surprise!

PERSONALIZE YOUR READING EXPERIENCE
Choose the characters for your avatars, select the level of difficulty for the prompts and set your reading options.

RECORD YOUR OWN VOICE
Important words can be recorded. Children can also create and record their own dialogue lines.

STORYTELLING ACTIVITY
Play with Curious George and his friends and create your own animated stories in the Story Theater. This activity develops storytelling and narrative skills, and is also a lot of fun!

PROFESSIONAL NARRATION
Choose to have the story automatically narrated, always after a first shared-reading experience.

READ THE STORY AGAIN!
There are three reading levels with more living words to discover, and new prompts to engage conversation.

Find out more on www.ireadwith.com.

Need Help?
Have questions, suggestions or concerns? Please email us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help!


Copyright © 2015 by Tribal Nova Inc. All rights reserved. iReadWith and its logo are trademarks of Tribal Nova Inc.

Curious George ®, created by Margret and H. A. Rey, is a registered trademark and the Curious George logo is a trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and used under license. All rights reserved.

iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • August 21, 2014 Initial release
  • September 13, 2014 New version 1.0.1
  • October 10, 2014 New version 1.0.2