Story Stars are soft cuddly creatures that can read your child stories of their exciting adventures, sing calming relaxing melodies, playback your own personalised recorded messages and project a colourful night sky onto the ceiling. There are five creatures to collect: Toby Tales (Monstersaur), Teddi Tales (Bear), Luby Lullaby (Mermaid), Kori Story (Monkey) and Freddie Fable (Explorer).
All the content is controlled through the Story Stars free app available on Android and Apple devices. It is currently compatible with iPad Mini 2/3, iPad 3/4/Air 1/Air 2, iPhone 4s/5/5s/6/6s, Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro/4/Note 3/Note 10.1/ S6/S5/S4, Google Nexus 5/6, oneplusone, LG G3, LG V480 and HTC One (M9). The creatures require two AA batteries which are not included.
The app allows you to build tailored playlists composed of personalised messages, stories and melodies. When you first start the app, it will ask you to sign in with your email address and details and to agree with their terms and conditions. The app also allows you to record personalised messages. There are a list of 11 free stories and 10 melodies for you to select to upload into the toys. But do remember to adjust the volume in the app before you upload the playlist across. The first time I did it, I had the volume on full and it was really loud. I had to redo the playlist again with the adjusted volume. The playlists are uploaded to the Story Star via Bluetooth which will take a while. I uploaded nine melodies over and it took around 15-20 minutes. Once uploaded, your smart device can be switched off and put away due to an in-built memory within the Story Star.
In my video, I demonstrate how to use the app and show you the nightlight: https://youtu.be/hn3S6HRz7d4
Now children can listen to your playlist as many times as they want or see the colourful night light by simply pressing the button on the Story Stars stomach and watch as they come to life. After 20 minutes the night light automatically turns off.
My children adore these Story Stars, especially the nightlight. They like that the lights project on the ceiling. It did distract them from sleeping but it is a lovely feature for children who are afraid of sleeping alone. The creatures are soft to hug and it’s nice to be able to record a personalised message to tell them to go to bed!
For more information about Story Stars, please visit, http://toysalive.com/storystars/. It is available to buy from Smyths, good toy shops and Amazon.
Disclosure: We received the sample for the purposes of writing this review however all thoughts and opinions remain our own.
The app keeps saying error unable to connect? Anybody else have this issue
Have you ask them via their facebook page – facebook.com mookie.toys They might able to help you. It might be the version on your phone not suitable for their app.
Charlie and the chocolate factory is my favourite
The faraway Tree by Enid Blyton! I’ve never read a childrens book so well written, magical and captivating throughout x
I love The BFG 🙂 My eldest Daughter is just getting into the story too x
Snow White
Peter Rabbit xx
Richard Scarry, Busy Busy World
My personal favourite is the Harry Potter series or Discworld series but with kids it’s Julia Donaldson books, especially Gruffalo and Gruffalos child
Room on the broom by Julia Donaldson
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Beatrix potter collection.
as a child i loved the wind in the willows
Now we are back into Roald Dahl books it has to be the BFG
The Hobbit. My mum used to read it to me as a child and I still love it now.
Treasure Island
We’re going on a Bear Hunt
room on the broom and the gruffalo
We are going on a bear hunt
The Gruffalo x
The Tiger Who Came To Tea!
No No Charlie Rascal. It was both my daughters favourite book and now my grandson is loving it too 🙂
The magic faraway tree
My son loves little red riding hood
The Gruffalo
The Gruffalo
the very hungry caterpillar, i read it to my grand daughter when she stays with me, she loves it as did my 3 children
Superworm is our favourite
My son and I love reading Superworm!
Blue Dolphin!
Tom Thumb
The Twits!
Little red riding hood
The Magic Faraway Tree
Albie and the Space Rocket
The Enchanted Wood Enid Blyton . Im going to enjoy reliving them through reading to my daughter
Hop Skip and Jump by Enid Blyton
The Magic Faraway tree stories
I love The Faraway Tree stories – so does my 6 year old daughter.
we love room on the broom 🙂
Winnie the Poo books
We love Winnie The Pooh
We are big fans of The Gruffalo here, kids love it
The Gruffalo
We love the gruffalo, went to the gruffalo experience recently too and it was amazing to see the storybook acted out 🙂
What an amazing idea. My nephew would love this
The Gruffalo
matilda
The ugly duckling, Hans Christian Anderson
My best friend at work has a daughter – she’d love this 🙂 x
The Gruffalo
The Witches
We love we’re going on a bear hunt in this house.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is my favourite children’s story book.
Back to the secret garden
Has to be the classic which is the very hungry caterpillar.
So many favourites! If pressed I’d say my daughter’s favourite is Little Red Riding Hood and mine is The Gruffalo 🙂
ENID BYTON
Either The Famous Five or Secret Seven xxx
The Gruffalo
Hungry Caterpillar
Hungry Caterpillar!
The Faraway Tree was by far my favourite book as a child 🙂
the hungry catapiller 🙂
The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton xx
Cinderella
I’ve always loved The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe ever since my teacher used to read it to our class in primary school.
The Lion the witch and the wardrobe
Paper dolls by julia donaldson
room on the broom x
the very hungrey caterpillar !
Changes every week but at the moment me and my son love Rudolph saves Christmas
As a kid loved lot of Enid Blyten books. At the moment my baby boy loves where is my series
Little Red Riding Hood 🙂
I always loved “Anne of Green Gables”, my daughter has just started reading it and can’t stop 🙂
Black Beauty
we are loving the gruffalos child at the minute
The Railway Children
We love the jolly postman in our house. My little boy loves to open the little letters and help me read them xx
Love the Tiger who came to tea x
I was surprised to see how common the Gruffalo is as an option, sorry to not be very original, but it’s true of our house too! My little man has been fascinated by it since about 9 months old. He’s 2.5 now and at this point both Daddy and I know it word for word, no boo required!
We love reading stories that we can change our voices 🙂 Gruffalo at the moment is fun 🙂 the animal noises are hilarious 😀
My kids love Stickman and Tales of Peter rabbit 🙂
my grandson daniel loves the gruffalo
I love reading the Gruffalo with my little girls, they make me read it over and over again but I enjoy doing all the voices for them
My son loves Toys in Space – we first found it at the local library 🙂
We love The Mousehole Cat which is set in Cornwall
The wishing chair.
I love the tiger who came to tea
my little man loves little red riding hood
my granddaughters would love a story star
I love the secret!
The Tiger who came to Tea
The Hobbit
The Velveteen Rabbit by Kenneth P. Williams and Margery Williams
The Magic Faraway Tree books by Enid Blyton
The Treasure Hunters by Enid Blyton
The Gruffalo or Stick Man!! I love Julia Donaldson
Alice in Wonderland 😀
The bfg
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Borrowers by Mary Norton.
We love The Gruffalo at the minute!
The Gruffalo
The stick man.
The Hungry Caterpillar
Disney – any one with a princess in
Calm Down Borris is a favourite with me any my kiddies 🙂 It’s a hand puppet book
the owl babies is a lovely story x
we love the disney books – the jungle book is our favourite
Little Red Riding Hood
the gruffalo
Little red riding hood 🙂
Green eggs and Ham
I loved Have you seen my sister? when I was a kid.
The Gruffalo
i love reading enid blyton books to my children we are half way through the faraway tree at the moment
My son loves The Highway Rat.
The Hungry Caterpillar
The Jolly Postman
The hungry catepillar
We love Little Red Riding Hood
The hungry caterpillar
I used to love one called up, up and away about a red balloon
mines A Brave Bear xx
fairy stories generally
cinderella x
The gruffalo
The gruffalo
We love More Ketchup Please story book! Its brilliant 🙂
The Lion, The witch and the Wardrobe
The Gruffalo
dinosaurs in the supermarket
The gruffalo
I love Sleeping Beauty
The Gruffalo
I love the jolly postman
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Gruffalo
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Mrs pepperpot books
We love room on the broom
The Tiger Who Came to Tea! Keep seeing these advertised on TV, they look great. Good luck everyone!
The Rabbit’s Wedding is such a sweet, old book x
The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Mine is going on a bear hunt 🙂
I have so many favourites! The Very Hungry Caterpillar is my all time favourite though!
I love A Squash and a Squeeze ❤
I like the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar
room on the broom
the gruffalo
Alice in Wonderland has always been my favourite book