A mother and daughter on the sofa reading Fern and the Sleepy Star together on their tablet in WonderCast. A family on the couch as the WonderCast reader fills the living-room TV - story art, read-along text and what-happens-next choices. A father and child by the fire, opening Fern and the Sleepy Star in WonderCast on his phone. A parent and child following a WonderCast story on an open laptop, choices glowing on screen.

Read it, star in it, sing it.

Wondy the owl's stories help your child learn to read: every word lights up as it's read. Some nights, it becomes a song.

Six free stories — no account No ads, ever Ages 3–8 · App Store age rating 4+

Three ways to start tonight.

Read one that's already here, dream up a brand-new one with Wondy & friends, or put your own child at the heart of the story. Every one of them works tonight.

Read one now

Six Wondy stories are already in the library — press play and read along. No account, no setup. The gentlest way in.

Start tonight's story

Make one with Wondy & friends

Dream up a brand-new story starring the whole Wonderwood cast — no photo, no setup. Just an idea, and about a minute.

Make one free

Make it your family

Add your child once, and every story can star them — their name, their face, their world. That's the part they never forget.

Put your child in a story

Every word lights up as it's read.

Before it's ever a song, it's a story that helps your child learn to read. Any word that gets hard is one tap from sounding itself out. No quizzes, no levels, just the story doing the teaching.

from “Fern and the Sleepy Star

Made for more than one night.

Six stories tonight is only the start — the library grows with your reader, and a story can even star them.

Cover of Fern and the Sleepy Star

Pick-a-path adventure

Pick-a-path adventures ask your reader what happens next — their call, a different story every time.

Cover of Fern and the Missing Wonderwood Acorn

Chapter books, for one-more nights

Longer stories in gentle chapters, for the reader who is not ready to stop at short.

Wondy at a gentle fork in the moonlit Wonderwood - one path lit by warm lanterns, the other by blue fireflies, a small stack of storybooks beside her.

Start tonight's story

And some nights...

...it turns into a real song.

Every song comes apart like a real recording: turn each instrument on or off to hear how it's built, drop the voice out and sing it karaoke-style as the words light up in time, or follow the tune below, note by note.

“Hush now, little star, the night is soft and wide.”

The words light up as they're sung.

The read-along, singing. A child who can't read yet still follows along.

Cover art for The Wonderwood Lullaby
The Wonderwood Lullaby From the free library · the opening line

This is the real karaoke and notation, exactly as a WonderCast song plays.

Six full stories are waiting — free, no sign-up, and one opens in seconds.

Start tonight's story

Browse the shelf

Six stories are already unlocked.

You don't have to make anything to start. Six are waiting right now — to read, watch, hear or sing — no account, nothing to buy. Here are three for tonight; the rest are on the shelf in the library.

Families have already made over 700 stories of their own here — more than 100 in the last month (as of Aug 2026). New stories are made here every night.

See all six in the free library

She's not just on the page.

Talk to Wondy. She's really listening.

The little owl who's been walking you down this page is right there in the app — and she talks back. Read to her out loud and she follows along; ask her anything and she shows the way.

Wondy, what does “lantern” mean?
A little light you can carry! Fern lights one on the very next page. Want me to read it with you?
Find me a dragon story!
I know just the one. Tap it and I'll read along.

Read to her

Your child reads out loud; Wondy listens along. When a word gets hard she leans in — “take your time, I’m not worried.” No grades, no buzzers.

Ask out loud

“What’s this word?” “Play the song again.” She hears them and shows the way — no reading needed to get around.

Only ever kind & safe

Wondy only points to things already made for your family — no open internet, no strangers. Just a friend who knows the whole Wonderwood.

A cozy night living room lit by its screens: the night's story fills the TV, the music mixer with its colorful instrument buttons glows on a tablet on the sofa arm, and a phone by a mug of cocoa shows the story's two glowing choices.

On the screens you already have.

WonderCast is on iPhone and iPad, and on the big screen with Apple TV — all in the App Store — and in any browser, tonight.

Safe by design.

No ads, nothing a child makes is ever public, and photos or voice are always optional — always in a parent's hands. How we keep it safe

“And just like that, Mia realized that saying sorry didn’t make her smaller — it made her braver.”
From Mia’s Story

Families have already made over 700 stories here — more than 100 in the last month. WonderCast Storybooks on the App Store — age rating 4+.

Wondy the plush owl curled up fast asleep on a crescent moon in a deep starry sky.

Read it, star in it, sing it. Then sleep.

Six stories are waiting — to read, to hear, to watch, to sing. Each one lights up every word as it's read, and some nights turns into a song. Dim the room, press play, and let the last one do the rest.

Start tonight's story

Pick one and it opens in seconds — free, no account. Families made 100+ new stories here last month (as of Aug 2026).

Free, no account to start. Personal stories are always optional — never the price of admission.

Not tonight? We’ll email you the six free stories — and one new free story a month.

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