The Kids Tales Is Now Free for Schools (Here's How to Get It for Your Child's Classroom)
Big news: schools now get The Kids Tales free for the whole school year 120+ stories with audio, no student data, nothing to install.
Today we get to announce something we've wanted to do for a long time.
The Kids Tales is now free for schools for the whole school year.
Every teacher who signs up gets our complete library of 120+ original illustrated stories for ages 3–8, plus all the premium features: narrated audio, read-along highlighting, playlists and printables.
No student accounts. No child data. Nothing to install. And genuinely nothing to cancel later there's no card and no catch.
Here's what's included, why we built it this way, and how to bring it to your school or your child's.
What Teachers Get
Everything in the library, plus the features built for reading together:
Read-along highlighting.
Karaoke-style: every word lights up the moment it's spoken, so early readers follow the text with their eyes while they listen.
It's one tap to turn on and quietly,
it's word-recognition practice every single story time. Three reading speeds. Slow, medium, normal pick the pace that fits the room. There's also a voice-off mode where pages keep turning while you read aloud.
A story for every gap in the day. Stories are sorted by reading time from 1–2 minute fillers to 13-minute quiet-time reads so a four-minute gap before lunch always has a four-minute tale.
A skill inside every story. Kindness, courage, honesty, problem-solving every story lists what it teaches, with talking points for after. Browse the whole library by skill to match a story to whatever your class is working through this week.
ESL / EAL support. Hearing, seeing and following the same words together slow speed plus the read-along highlight is a small language lesson in itself, and any sentence repeats with one tap.
The same stories at home. Send families a link to the story you read in class free to read at home, no account needed along with printable activities and our free bedtime routine planner.
Why There's No Catch
We built this offer around the three things teachers told us they worry about most with classroom tools:
Student data. One teacher account covers the whole classroom. Children never log in, and we collect nothing about individual children no names, no profiles, nothing. There is simply no student data to worry about, because there is no student data.
Ads. There are no ads anywhere on The Kids Tales, for anyone, and no external links inside stories. It's safe on a classroom screen, full stop.
IT overhead. It works in any browser on any device nothing to install, nothing on your school's systems, nothing to uninstall if you stop. "Stopping" just means not using it. Free for the school year means exactly that. Every story on The Kids Tales is already free for anyone to read; schools additionally get the premium features audio narration, playlists, printables at no cost, all year.
How to Get Access
If you're a teacher, it takes one email. Write to hello@thekidstales.com from your school address with:
Your school's name and country
Your name
The age group you teach
That's all we ever need, and access is usually set up within a couple of days. Everything else including a ready-made resource block for your school's website is on our For Schools page.
If You're a Parent Reading This
You're actually the person we most hoped would see this post.
Teachers rarely hear about free resources their inboxes are full of things that only say they're free. But a quick note from a parent lands differently.
So if your child is between 3 and 8, consider forwarding this post or just the For Schools link to their teacher with a one-line note: "This is free for schools, no student accounts, thought of your class."
That's it. You might have just upgraded story time for twenty kids.
The Bottom Line: The Kids Tales is now free for schools for the whole school year 120+ stories with audio, read-along highlighting, printables and playlists, with no student data, no ads and nothing to install. Teachers: one email gets you in. Parents: one forward gets your child's classroom in. Story time just got easier for everyone.
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