Games for bedtime: picture books and a music box

• Dappled Music Box
• Lanterngrove
• Dinosaur Picture Book

Before you start

1. Turn the volume and the screen brightness down firstMusic or reading may start as soon as a game opens. Please have a grown-up set the volume low first. In a dark room, turning the screen brightness down too keeps it from being glaring.
2. Pick one, then just listenThe picture books turn their own pages, and the music box stops after playing the song the number of times you chose. Nobody needs to keep pressing the screen.
3. To stop partwayIn the picture books, the “…” at the top left lets you pause or go back to the bookshelf. In the music box, press the play button again to stop.

Each game at bedtime

• Dappled Music Boxages 5 to 15

  Make music box songs and play them. The tempo is slow (66 beats a minute), and the song repeats the number of times you chose, then gets quieter at the end and stops. The first screen has a sample song that plays as soon as you press it. The screen is brightly colored, so turn the brightness down before you use it.

  How to play
• Lanterngrovefrom age 1

  A picture book of tales from around the world. It turns its own pages, read aloud with music box music. The screen stays dark the whole time. At the end, choose “Sleep music” and a dark cover comes down over the screen; the music gets quieter and stops after 30 minutes.

  How to play
• Dinosaur Picture Bookfrom age 3

  A picture book about one day in the time of real dinosaurs. It turns its own pages, read aloud with music box music, and the story ends at night with the dinosaurs going to sleep. The screen stays dark the whole time. At the end, choose “Sleep music” and a dark cover comes down over the screen; the music gets quieter and stops after 30 minutes.

  How to play

Good to know

• The screen stays onWhile a picture book is reading and while the music box is playing, the game keeps the device from turning the screen off by itself. This ends when they finish.
• The reading voiceThe picture books use the device’s text-to-speech. On a device without a voice for that language, the pages move on without being read aloud.

Playing without a connection (on a plane, in the car)

Playing without sound while you wait

Games two people can play on one device

Choose by what the game is about: numbers, colors, sounds, words

Things to make together on the weekend

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