BookBox

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BookBox

BookBox Logo (2016)
Created by	Brij Kothari[1]
URL	bookbox.com
Current status	Online

BookBox, a social enterprise located in Pondicherry, India has created ‘AniBooks’, animated stories for children with the narration appearing on-screen as Same Language Subtitles (SLS).^[2] Every word is highlighted at the exact timing with the audio narration, thus strengthening reading skills, automatically and subconsciously.^[3] BookBox has their videos on their YouTube channel,^[4] with over 45 stories in 40 languages.^[5] The business was born in 2004 from a student-driven competition, Social e-Challenge, at Stanford University.^[6]

SLS is a pedagogically sound and proven technique and has won many international awards ^[7] alongside their partner non-profit, PlanetRead created by Brij Kothari, which has also been implemented widely on film song based TV programs in India.^[8]

Languages[]

BookBox offers books in the following languages:^[9]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website

News coverage[]

• Kothari, Brij (March 3, 2016). "BookBox: Scaling children's reading". Huffington Post.
• "Elon Musk Backs Youth Literacy Through The Global Learning Xprize". The South African. Blue Sky Publications Ltd. January 13, 2016.
• Philip, Annie (October 15, 2015). "Taking Kalam's Stories to Children Across India". The Hindu.
• Kothari, Brij (July 30, 2015). "Dr. Kalam: Animated Stories from His Legendary Life". Huffington Post.

Reviews[]

• "Using Captions for Children's Literacy in Any Language". Media Access Australia. March 18, 2016. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016.
• Sara T.; Suzy S. (February 16, 2016). "75 Free Resources for Learning Spanish Online". Take Lessons.
• Suzy S. (December 8, 2015). "50+ Free Online Resources for Teaching Spanish to Kids". Take Lessons.
• Balasubramanyam, Vidya (May 14, 2015). "10 free online read alouds for children in Indian languages". The Alternative. Sattva Media and Consulting Pvt Ltd. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
• Maya (May 12, 2015). "An Animated Version of Too Many Bananas". Pratham Books.
• Davey, Angelika (March 2, 2015). "Practise your German with Videos from BookBox". Angelika's German.
• Andrew (September 30, 2012). "List of Websites Where You Can Watch Spanish Videos with Spanish Subtitles or Transcripts Online". How Learn Spanish.