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]

BookBox
BookBox's logo from 2016
BookBox Logo (2016)
Created byBrij Kothari[1]
URLbookbox.com
Current statusOnline

SLS’ pedagogical sound and proven technique has won many international awards. [7] Their non-profit partner, PlanetRead, created by Brij Kothari, has also been widely implemented on film song based TV programs in India.[8]

Languages

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BookBox offers books in the following languages:[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Team". BookBox. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  2. ^ "Product Review: Animal Stories BookBox Series Video (Recommended age 3-7)". Momma's Bacon. 2012-03-02.
  3. ^ "BookBox: Online Spanish Stories". Spanish Playground. 18 June 2015.
  4. ^ "bookboxinc". YouTube. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  5. ^ "BookBox". bookbox.com.
  6. ^ Kothari, Brij (2016-03-10). "BookBox: Scaling children's reading". HuffPost. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  7. ^ "Awards". bookbox.com.
  8. ^ "About Us". PlanetRead. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  9. ^ "PlanetRead".
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