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Pass this one up!
First, these aren't really stories - they're text/chat conversations that are "overheard" by the reader/listener. The majority of these conversations seem to be vapid, passive aggressive, and often insulting arguments that sound exactly like the way I DON'T want my kids to talk to each other or to me. The whiny banter and chat format make it seem like this is intended for a teenage or at least middle grade audience, but Amazon is clearly marketing this to the elementary crowd. As other reviewers have noted, there is some graphic violence and name calling here that really isn't appropriate for early readers or sensitive kids. Not to mention that the whole thing is read with no inflection in a truly terrible robot voice. It's a bizarre app. We missed the cancellation deadline and paid for the year by mistake. We deleted the app, anyway.
Ways to vastly improve upon this concept:
1. Replace the ridiculous robot with a human
2. Replace the Cartoon Network teenage drama with something age appropriate for the younger kids.
January 2017 · Unknown · verified purchase