Chameleon Reader Review: Turn Any Book Into an Audio Book!

This post is sponsored by Chameleon Reader. All thoughts and opinions shared are my own.

I am beyond excited to share this product with you! In fact, it’s been a while since I was this excited about a product. We are pretty much obsessed over here. It’s called Chameleon Reader and it is a kit/tool that allows you to turn any book into an audio book. Actually, it even goes above and beyond that! Let me explain.

The kit comes with: a Chameleon Reader pen, notepads to organize audio books and music, specialized stickers, the bookmark activator tabs, a little book to keep the notepad pages, a charging cord and an instruction manual. You can get started immediately with turning your books into audio books. All you do is prep your book with stickers by the text then use the pen tool to record your voice and assign it to each sticker. It’s seriously that easy.

After you record your voice for each page/section of the book you can string them all together to make a playlist which is a cohesive audio book. (So your child can hear all the text together as a whole story.) Then, if you want, you can list/connect it on your library notepad and they can play the full audio book whenever they want wherever they want. Even if the actual book isn’t there!

I was so excited to get started and my enthusiasm only grew when I realized how amazingly simple it was to use and how quickly the process went. My voice recording came out crystal clear and I was so pleased. I did about a dozen books to start (and still had TONS of stickers left for many more books!) and then introduced Chameleon Reader to my daughter.

In order to read it all she had to do was turn on the “pen” and then tap each sticker with the point. That’s it! To say she was thrilled may be an understatement. She happily listened to each and every completed book, then started again. Later, I shared them with my son and he was just as excited! He quickly requested that I turn a few of his favorite books into Chameleon Reader books for him to listen too. Of course I said “yes”!

I love Chameleon Reader. I love that in-between the story times that I do with my children, they can sit down with a book or two and have them “read” to them by me. I love that it’s completely screen free and I love that they are holding an actual book and turning actual pages. I love that my oldest can “read along” with the audio and I love that it is an independent activity that is fostering both of my children’s love of reading.

One of the major strengths of this product is that there are stickers available in the kit where you can create multiple audio book versions of a book in up to four different languages (that you color code with the stickers) to teach your child multiple languages. What an amazing tool for bilingual families! This isn’t what we are using it for right now, but I definitely see the value of the feature and I love how simple it is to put in effect with Chameleon Reader.

Some other ideas I had (or were mentioned with the product) for using this tool are:

• reading centers in a school setting
• letting your child record their voice reading to work on reading fluency (expression, reading pace, pronunciation, reading rhythm…)
• a family member can record their voice reading books to gift to children in their family that live long distances away (think grandparents and military families!)
• audio books and mp3 music player for road-trips/on the go
• making flash cards to teach multiple languages, alphabet and more
• record yourself singing songs with a songbook or simply lullabies for your child to hear

Basically, the bottom line is that it is a pretty amazing little gadget. We have the stack of books that I have recorded on a special shelf in our home where they can stay separate so they are easy to find when my kids want an impromptu story time. What a lovely, standing invitation to read, right?! Also, I have a stack of books in my room that are waiting to be transformed into audio books with Chameleon Reader. Life is good!

To read more about this product or to purchase it, head to Chameleon Reader’s Website.

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