Video Bedtime Stories | Read Aloud Video Storytelling on iPad or a Webcam

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Bedtime Stories Just Got Even Better.
Offer your children’s book to the new family videos created on Be There Bedtime Stories! Our video storytelling platform is intended to connect families far apart for a meaningful, multimedia experience by combining the familiarity of a family-member in the video frame, with YOUR storybook on the screen.

Bedtime stories have been a part of a child’s nighttime routine for centuries - long before bubble gum flavored toothpaste. The stories and illustrations on the page of a bedtime story is like that explosive stuff on the tip of a match - sharing a story with a child sparks a brilliant fire inside their imagination. For a few moments each night, we believe that Storytellers are superheroes, with the power to build literacy, build character and take a child to another world.

Did You Know?
Bedtime Stories from the web = Webtime Stories®
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Webtime Stories® build literacy.
Be There Bedtime Stories is the most effective multimedia experience for delivering a true read aloud technique to build literacy - because of the visual of the storyteller.

Simply reading aloud daily to a child up to age 5, establishes their literacy strength for the rest of their life!
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Webtime Stories® last forever.
Imagine being able to watch one of your ancestors read a bedtime story...! These recordings

Offer Your Book as a Webtime Story!

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Meet Our Storytellers

Meet Vivian
I call my grandma ‘Missy Grammy’. She likes to have a nickname and I don’t know how I came up with it. It just happened during a phone call. I live in Chicago with my sister. I’m four years old. My sister is six years old. Missy Grammy lives in Arizona. I don’t know how many years old Missy Grammy is. Anyway, phone calls aren’t quite as fun as a ‘Be There Bedtime Story’! I can actually see her - she’s sittin’ there right on the page of the book, on my computer! It’s amazing! She always manages to find stories about kitty cats, because she knows how much I like kitty cats. Now she has to show grampa how to ‘be there’ too!

Behind the Bedtime Story

After a decade of both field and corporate experience in the hospitality industry, Alison Sansone, Creator/CEO, decided to pursue marketing and business development as her true passion. In 2006, she combined her education in videography with her marketing acumen to start her own company producing multi-media tools for small businesses and non-profit organizations throughout Orange County. The business model for Be There Bedtime Stories was inspired by her own frustration of living 1500 miles away from her only two nieces.

Since the company’s launch, Sansone has spearheaded the company’s growth and strategic vision:

Over 250 titles have been licensed for her store by ten publishers, featuring a variety of genres from educational to character building and from holiday to Spanish language titles.
BTBS is a strategic partner of Blue Star Families, offering free Webtime Stories and webcams to this nationally leading military family support organization.
BTBS has been endorsed by Reach Out and Read, a national leading, research-based organization raising awareness on early childhood literacy.
Alison serves on the steering committee for the Los Angeles Literacy Roundtable, a distinguished co-op of nationally recognized literacy organizations.
Alison serves on the marketing and design team for the ‘Read Across CA’ campaign launching in March 2012, following the recently passed legislation, ARC 62.
BTBS has been awarded the Mom’s Choice Award for ‘best of the best’ in Family Friendly Media and Services.

She is joined by Jesse Pierpoint, principal of Pierpoint Design, a design and branding firm with over 10 years of experience in developing branding campaigns and digital strategies in the entertainment and telecom industries.

Strategic Parnership
We have a strategic partnership with Blue Star Families - a military family support organization, serving as a bridge between military families, the shapers of policy affecting military life, and the nation. Since it's inception in 2008, BSF has raised awareness on the ongoing needs of MilFams by:

starting 70 chapters on military bases and National Guard sites around the country
designed and executed a comprehensive "Military Families Top Issues Survey", studied and referenced by major government leaders in Congress
voicing it's mission in a regular column in Military Spouse Magazine
launching the “Books on Bases Smiles on Faces” program to bring 100,000 children’s books to military children
shining a spotlight on BSF programs with the help of many high-profile leaders and celebrities, including Dr. Jill Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama; Cher, Jack Black, and the Ellen Show

We’ve created a one of a kind donation program, offering the opportunity to support military families by donating both webcams and webcam stories. Learn more about our program with BSF here.

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