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Classic stories, gently animated.

Fairy tales and fables to watch, hear or read along, hosted by three very good dogs. For kids 2 to 9. No ads.

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Oliver, Lindsay and Daryl lean over a giant glowing storybook in a castle library

Every story starts in the castle library.

Three dogs, one very old book, and whatever happens when it opens.

Open it.

Once upon a time…

Pick a story.

Fables, fairy tales and animal tales, each one drawn in the same gentle house style and timed to the narrator's voice.

Buster Bear sits by a forest pool holding a fish

Buster Bear Goes Fishing

By
Thornton W. Burgess, 1916
Length
4 minutes
Ages
4 to 8
Lesson
Don't take what isn't yours
The miller and his son walk their donkey down a village lane while townspeople watch

The Miller, His Son and Their Donkey

By
Aesop
Length
3 minutes
Ages
3 to 7
Lesson
You can't please everyone
A king and a messenger outside a storybook castle

Briar Rose

By
The Brothers Grimm
Length
7 minutes
Ages
4 to 8
Lesson
Include everyone
Children walk along the Selfish Giant's garden wall

The Selfish Giant

By
Oscar Wilde, 1888
Length
9 minutes
Ages
5 to 9
Lesson
Sharing and saying sorry

Meet your hosts.

Oliver, Lindsay and Daryl are real dogs, and the first three letters of the name. They open every story and they never skip the good part.

Oliver, a chocolate Labrador, sitting and waving one paw

Oliver

A chocolate Lab with a gray snout and floppy ears. First to every story, and first to wander off in the middle of one.

Excitable. Mischievous.
Lindsay, a fawn pit bull with a purple collar, sitting and waving one paw

Lindsay

A fawn pit bull with a big round head and a purple collar. She laughs at the funny bits before anybody else does.

Joyful. Goofy. Tongue out.
Daryl, a liver-brown pit bull in a red checked handkerchief, sitting and waving one paw

Daryl

A dark brown pit bull in a red checked handkerchief. Proud, protective, and much braver from far away. He's in the corner of this page. Go and say hello.

Tough. Then not.

Slow on purpose.

Most cartoons today are built on fast cuts and nonstop noise. Our stories move at the pace of a book read aloud, with gentle motion and scenes that stay on screen long enough to look around. It keeps young minds working and makes reading the classics fun.

  • Time to think. Children follow the words, notice the details and guess what happens next.
  • Reading is part of the fun. Each word lights up as it's spoken, and kids can tap any word to hear it again.
  • Something to talk about. Every story ends with its lesson, a question to talk over and a quick quiz with the dogs.
  • A calm finish. Nothing plays next on its own, and Bedtime mode winds down by itself.
Buster Bear sits by the forest pool holding a trout while Little Joe Otter swims nearby
Buster Bear Goes Fishing, from the OLD's Storytime library

Made for small hands.

Big pictures and no reading needed. Tap a picture and the story starts. Grown-up settings stay behind a grown-ups gate.

A library that teaches.

Search any word, lesson or topic across every story. Filter by age, grade and reading level, and keep a list of words to learn.

Color, play, rest.

Real-feel crayons, markers and glitter pens. Word games, letter tracing and counting, each built on a story. Then doggy breathwork to help your child calm down.

Then, bedtime.

Bedtime mode slows the story, dims the picture, finishes as audio, then stops. Sleep sounds and a timer take it from there. No ads, no autoplay.

The OLD's Storytime home screen with a featured story and a reading tracker The library screen with lesson builder and word search The coloring screen with crayons and a donkey to color The home screen in bedtime mode, on a navy night sky

Coming soon to iPhone and iPad

When the story ends, the fun doesn't.

Every activity in the app is built from a story your child just heard, so the words and the characters are already friends.

The coloring screen in the app: Oliver colored brown, Lindsay colored yellow, Daryl still white, with crayons, markers and a paint bucket
Coloring, half done. Crayon, marker, paintbrush, glitter pen and paint bucket.
Letter tracing: a capital A half traced in dark crayon next to a dotted lowercase a
Tracing letters with a finger or Apple Pencil.
A word search with words from Buster Bear Goes Fishing; the word otter has been found
Word search, with words from the story.
Fill in the word: a sentence from Buster Bear with a missing word and three choices
Fill in the word.
Unscramble: letter tiles to rearrange into a word from the story
Unscramble.
  • ColoringPaint bucket, crayon, marker, brush, glitter pen. Stays inside the lines if you want it to.
  • Reading and wordsFill in the word, word search, unscramble, Silly Stories.
  • WritingTrace letters and words with a finger or Apple Pencil.
  • MathCounting, adding and taking away, and puzzles.
  • Doggy breathworkSlow, gentle breathing with the dogs to help your child calm down at the end of the day.

Free to print

The same pages kids color in the app. Print them for the fridge, the car or a rainy afternoon.

Take the stories off the screen.

Printed books and art supplies with Oliver, Lindsay and Daryl on them. Annual members get 10% off. Sold online only.

Cover of OLD's Storytime Classics, Volume 1: the miller's son rides the donkey while Buster Bear holds a fish

OLD's Storytime Classics, Volume 1

Format
Picture book, 36 pages, 8.5 x 8.5 in
Inside
The Miller and Buster Bear, illustrated
Where
Amazon Coming soon
Cover of the OLD's Storytime Classics Coloring Book, Volume 1, half colored in

Classics Coloring Book, Volume 1

Format
20 pictures, 8.5 x 11 in, one-sided pages
Inside
Scenes from both stories
Where
Amazon Coming soon

Art supplies Coming soon

  • Crayons8 bright crayons in a box with Oliver, Lindsay and Daryl
  • Colored pencils12 pencils with the OLD's logo on every one
  • Markers8 washable markers
  • Coloring KitColoring book, crayons and markers
  • Bedtime BundlePicture book, coloring book and colored pencils
Animated scene from The Miller, His Son and Their Donkey

Animation services

Have a story of your own?

Send us photos, a drawing, a sketch or just an idea. We animate it and voice it, and you can add your own voices too. For schools, homeschool lessons, churches and personal use.

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Choose a plan.

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Best value

Annual

$49.99 a year

About $4.17 a month. 7 days free first.

  • Every story, in Daytime and Bedtime moods
  • Read-Along, Story only and Words only
  • All activities and sleep sounds
  • All drawings and stories saved, and stories for offline
  • Share drawings with family and loved ones
  • Request new stories
  • A birthday card and a holiday card of your choice from Eva, Oliver, Lindsay and Daryl
  • 10% off the OLD's Storytime online shop

Monthly

$6.99 a month

  • Every story, activity and sleep sound
  • All drawings and stories saved
  • Share drawings with family and loved ones
  • Request new stories

Free

$0

  • Every story, free on YouTube
  • No early access to new stories
  • Nothing is saved: no favorites or progress
  • No offline mode

Family annual Coming soon

Everything in Annual, plus record a story in your own voice for up to six family narrators.

Give a year · $49.99 once

A year of stories for grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Lovely for birthdays and holidays.

Prices in US dollars.

The End. Sleep tight.

Every story is free on YouTube. The full app is seven days away.

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