Patent ID: 6516181
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising in combination:at least two storybooks, each storybook having a book binding engaging a front and a back book covers and plural pages positioned between the front and back book covers; an audio recording and playback device comprising a voice information storing means, an upwardly directed control surface, said control surface comprising plural buttons, each of the plural buttons visually corresponding to one of the plural pages of the storybooks and enabled for initiating a portion of the audio information playback corresponding to a portion of a story written on the corresponding one of the pages of the storybook, and a means for recording audio information twice for at least one of the plural buttons so as to achieve voice-over effects, and a side surface adjacent to the control surface; an engaging means for removably engaging the audio device with one of the back book covers; and at least one transparent pocket for receiving a photograph as a means for personalizing the storybook.