The read-along app · For any age
西游新传
Mighty Little Monkey™
New Journey West.
The ancient Chinese epic, retold for new readers — fifty illustrated stories, read aloud in twelve languages, in one gentle app.
- 50
- books
- 12
- languages
- 5
- seasons
- 0
- ads, ever
The ecosystem
Read along in twelve languages.
Tap any page to hear it read aloud, with the words highlighting as they go. Show one language or both at once. Book one is free in every language.
Every book narrated word by word, with quizzes, a journey map, and twelve languages.
Free to tryGet the app →The whole library in your pocket, narrated in twelve languages, with quizzes and a journey map to track how far you've come.
iOS · Android · Free to try · in-app purchases
The storytellers
Twelve voices, twelve languages.
Every language has a storyteller of its own. Tap a page and she reads it aloud, word by word, at your child's pace.
EnglishEnglish
简体中文Chinese (Simplified)
繁體中文Chinese (Traditional)
EspañolSpanish
FrançaisFrench
PortuguêsPortuguese
DeutschGerman
日本語Japanese
한국어Korean
العربيةArabic
РусскийRussian
हिन्दीHindi
The travellers · 取经人
Little heroes with big feelings.
Each character carries a different social-emotional lesson along the road west.
Sun Wukong孙悟空
The Monkey King
Learns: Self-Regulation & CourageA small monkey in a yellow cap and blue scarf, a bold red mask across his face. All bounce and no brakes — learning that being mighty means knowing when to be still.
Tang Sanzang唐三藏
The Gentle Monk
Learns: Empathy & PatienceA young monk in saffron and crimson robes, with a golden crown and a long string of prayer beads. He leads the journey softly, and shows that patience is its own kind of strength.
Zhu Bajie猪八戒
The Funny Friend
Learns: Sharing & HonestyA round, beaming pig in a dark robe and red sash, a golden rake over one shoulder. He loves food and naps in equal measure — and slowly learns that sharing tastes better.
Sha Wujing沙悟净
The Quiet Helper
Learns: Reliability & KindnessA bearded traveller in green and violet, prayer beads at his chest, carrying the whole party's luggage on a shoulder pole. He says little and never lets anyone down.
Bai Longma白龙马
The Shy Dragon Horse
Learns: Confidence & Growth MindsetA small white horse with a golden mane, red bridle and a tasselled collar. Shy at first and braver than he knows — and it is he who carries Tang Sanzang the whole way west.
The arc
Five seasons. Fifty books.
Golden Sunrise & Peach Blossoms
10 books
Jade Green Trails
10 books
Sunset Fire
10 books
Starlit Purple
10 books
Celestial Homecoming
10 booksFor grown-ups
Beautiful art. No noise. Real learning.
A lesson in every book
Each story carries one social-emotional theme — patience, sharing, courage — drawn straight from the original epic.
No ads, no subscription
Buy a book and it's yours. There are no adverts anywhere, no recurring charge, and nothing that nags a child to spend.
Genuinely bilingual
Not a translation bolted on — both languages sit on the spread together, so a child can read across them.
The journey starts with a stone.
Book one — The Magic Stone — is free to read, in every language we publish.
Get the appMeet the charactersOn the way
The books are coming too.
The app comes first. The printed editions and eBooks follow behind it.
Hardcover and paperback, single-language and bilingual, through Amazon and IngramSpark.
Coming soonThe same fifty stories as instant downloads, to read anywhere.
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