I though maiku stopped working due to the Twitpocalypse.

How come that isn't in extras?

jalladin, you'll also want to check out Rapier if you haven't already. Useful for fast passage lookup as well as reading.

Note: I have young children, and not all are geared toward young children (e.g., a Grimm's fairy tale with someone almost getting burned at the stake, a "chick lit" story with girls wonder if they're ugly b/c of braces or too fat & if boys will like them), so I've had to screen them a bit. But there is a "Junior" link also. The mother of all "free audiobook" resources, though, as far as I know, is Librivox.

I too am intrigued by mobikid. I watched the video and it looked like it was in Finnish and fairly incomplete. Is the latest downloadable version better? Are there lyrics? Are the songs familiar to North Americans? Or did the kid you mentioned just like making up their own lyrics to the music?

Hey,

yes the 'intro' to the application is in Finnish.

I'd say quite a few of the songs are recognizable by kids growing up in the US. The five-year old was born here in the US and she played, and sang, to the spider song quite a bit.

There are no lyrics per se, the way it works is;

a) You start up the program and there are 6-7 icons, each representing a children's song.

b) The child (or you.. ;-)) select the icon and the song starts playing. It also now records your singing.

c) At the end of the song you can listen to the music combined with the child's singing.

d) If you want to you can now click on the next 'tab' and email the song-clip (to yourself for instance for safe-keeping).

The program is also available here: http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maobikid800/
More songs would be nice