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Welcome to Novel Effect — an award-winning app that follows your voice as you read out loud from a children’s story book and responds at just the right moment with interactive music, sound effects, and character voices.  Free Novel Effect offers hundreds of soundscapes for a library of children’s books curated for teachers, librarians, kids and families.  Enjoy soundscapes for popular children’s books when you bring your own copy of the book, or read aloud from hundreds of in-app eBooks, including non-fiction and early reader chapter books, as well as exclusive members-only content.  Novel Effect’s service follows along as you read out loud, playing interactive music, sound effects, and character voices in response to your voice.  For families and individual educators, Novel Effect Premium offers unlimited access to a library of kid friendly content.  For educators, Novel Effect Premium Classroom offers unlimited access to Premium features and content for one teacher and up to 30 students in a safe and secure environment.  "I think this is cool as cool can be… I love it, I love it! - Novel Effect requires access to the device's microphone to perform voice-recognition. - The privacy of kids and their grown-ups is our top priority.  In the classroom or at home, see why parents and teachers alike say Novel Effect “…turns reading time into a magical experience". - App Store Review.  Overwhelmingly, educators say reading with Novel Effect is more engaging, creating motivated, confident, and empowered readers.  Our library includes a wide variety of high-quality soundscapes for carefully selected family friendly books to engage and promote imagination and learning, updated weekly with new titles!  Novel Effect was featured on Shark Tank, The TODAY Show, and in Forbes, Variety, Lifehacker, and more. “I felt like a real audiobook narrator.  I about fell out of my chair because he never wants to read aloud... and he has asked to go to the library to check out books that he can read along with NovelEffect ".  Add a little magic to story time with Novel Effect.  Enjoy limited access to soundscapes for free when you bring your own copy of the print book or ebook!  Hundreds of titles are available as in-app eBooks, some titles may require you to read aloud from your own copy.  My five-year-old tried reading a book on her own… and amazingly, the system picked up her little voice and played the effects at all the right moments.