Toddler Fun Learning in partnership with Ladybird Books has announced the launch of an exciting new series on YouTube called ‘Story Time’. Working together Toddler Fun Learning and Ladybird have created these videos to bring books to life in a fresh and innovative way and to encourage reading with young children.
The series was filmed at YouTube’s studios in London and feature a range of familiar faces as storytellers including Miranda Gore-Browne (Great British Bake Off) and DJ BBQ (Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube). The launch video will feature well-known historian and TV presenter, Dan Snow, (@TheHistoryGuy) reading the classic tale and family favourite, Cinderella. Dan said, “Books have always been a huge part of my life and now that I have little ones I want to share my love of reading with them and bring excitement into our storytelling. I was thrilled to be asked to be a part of Story Time and I only hope my storytelling brings the books to life for all those that watch.”
Currently Toddler Fun Learning uploads a new educational animated video to their YouTube channel every Friday at mid-day. The Story Time series videos will be released every Tuesday at mid-day beginning 21st July and will run all the way up until the beginning of December. The videos will cover a range of well-loved Ladybird stories including, Ladybird First Favourite fairy tales, Skullabones Island and Topsy and Tim. The first episode can be viewed here https://www.youtube.com/
To date, Toddler Fun Learning has had over 30 million views of their videos, with over 40,000 subscribers to the channel. The ethos of Toddler Fun Learning is to be a trusted and well-loved resource by parents and children with an unparalleled impact on educating and entertaining generations of children through new media channels and innovative technologies.
Ladybird Books as part of Penguin Random House Children’s, is one of the most iconic and well-known children’s publishing brands in the world. Juliet Matthews, Publishing Director of Pre-school and Licensed Publishing at Penguin Random House Children’s commented, ‘We’re delighted to be working with Toddler Fun Learning on the Story Time series. It’s an exciting new way to share our much-loved Ladybird stories and bring them to an even wider audience.’
Amalie Hughes, Marketing Director at Toddler Fun Learning commented: ‘We are thrilled to launch our Story Time series, and are so happy with the content that we have created using Ladybirds backlist of amazing titles to inspire children to pick up a book to read more. We hope to follow up the success of this series with another series focused on slightly older children.’
