Description
Buy The Palace
Give your children an entire Palace of Stories
What if you had an abundant source of audio stories that your kids loved and that you felt really good about?
That’s what you get when you Buy the Palace
- Over one hundred stories, grouped by age group and theme.
- High quality mp3 files.
- 35+ hours of listening time.
Just ‘Bought The Palace’ on Leo Sofer’s Palace of Stories website – really beautiful with loads of stories for download. Can’t recommend it highly enough to all parents. And especially for those who – like me – get to the end of the day and have very little left for reading out loud.This should be available far and wide – so many people would soak it up. In a world where we’re always trying to negotiate our children away from violence and addiction (screens, games etc) it’s like a voice of sanity.
Julia Laly
London, England
The stories come as high quality mp3 files. That’s the same format as most downloadable music and spoken word. They will play on your computer, tablet and phone.
Thirty five hours of high quality audio takes up roughly the same amount of space on your hard drive as a single feature length movie. Children love listening to stories again and again, so it’s likely these 100+ stories will be in use for months, or even years, to come.
“We’ve been listening for several years now to the stories we bought from your site, my son often goes to sleep with them. With many, many repetitions they have become like old friends.I have a feeling of safety leaving him with your stories, knowing that you are supporting the values we want to transmit to him: emphasising the inner life, rather than the consumerism of so much mainstream input.”
Natasha Wilson
Gloucestershire, England.
You’ll receive the stories grouped according to age range, so it’s easy to find stories appropriate for ages 3+, 5+ and 7+. You can also use the All Stories page to find stories on a particular theme that you’d like to share with your child.
“But my child is already seven. Won’t she be too old for most of the stories?”
Even if your child is in the 7+ age bracket, you will very likely find that they also enjoy the stories for ages 5+. Together, those two categories make up 30 hours of listening time. That’s over 85% of what you get when you buy the palace. Who knows, they may even enjoy listening to the 3+ stories a few times too!
Ways to listen
- While drawing: give your kids some paper and pencils and put the stories on
- While playing… or resting: play the stories while your kids are playing with their toys…. or when they want a break from doing anything at all
- At times of transition: after school, returning from a trip, calming down after an argument. Stories can ease such transitions
- In bed: if you don’t have the juice for telling stories or reading a book, snuggle in with your kids and listen to the story together!
- In the car: audio stories can be a fun way of shortening any journey
“Yippieeo!” Neo screamed when I just told him of your latest stories. He is listening to your stories again and again – has an old iPod that is filled with them and I’m so grateful – his understanding of English is growing, he hears good stories – everything a mum´s heart needs to relax. So THANK YOU!!!!!
Liv Larsson,
Sweden
Here’s how it works
When you Buy the Palace you can download and keep all the stories forever. You can also stream all the stories online, indefinitely.
You will receive a download link in the completed checkout screen as well as via email. You will also receive a separate email with login details. (Once logged in you can also find the download links on your My Account page.)
Click the download link to download 3 zip files containing all the mp3 audio files, grouped according to age group (3+, 5+ and 7+). Unzip the folders using the software on your device. (To listen on some devices, such as iPads and iPhones, you will need to
unzip the files on a desktop or laptop before copying them over.)
To stream any story, log in to Palace of Stories and go to the All Stories page, where you will find all the stories, searchable by age and theme. From each story’s page, you will be able to stream it or download it individually.