Story Something is a new site that lets children personalize stories. Then, parents and their children are supposed to read them together. There is no audio or animation.
It’s in “beta” now, and I do hope they make a number of the upgrades they’re talking about doing. I’m not particularly impressed with the site as it is now. Just having the ability to put your name in the story and personalize it a couple of other ways is not a big deal.
The site does, however, have a nice “Choose Your Own Adventure” story called A Puzzling Winter Adventure!. This one is a bit more interactive, and I hope they produce more of them. I’ve added this story to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories.
Thanks to TechCrunch for the tip.
December 23, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Hi Larry:
Thanks for the write up. The site’s definitely still in beta, and we’ll be adding more interactivity and narrative choices to the stories going forward. Personalization and choose-your-own-adventure is the tip of the narrative iceberg so to speak, and we’d love to hear what parents would like to see next.
Thanks again and happy holidays,
Jim Rose
CEO
Story Something, Inc.