Each story is approximately 30-40 minutes long.

After signing up, you will get access to a membership area of our website where you can view, stream, and download your stories and activities. You can log into this area anytime using any device that has access to the internet. If you’d like to add them to your music library, simply down-load the audio files from the membership area and drag them into your favorite media player, such as iTunes or Google Music.

Austria, China, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Nepal, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. New stories will be added in fall 2025.

The country guides each provide background information on the country, cultural learning points highlighted in the stories, recipes, printable activities, coloring pages and fun videos that enhance learning. We've also begun adding custom video art lessons for painting and drawing related to the country.

There are four stories that go along with each country.

We accept all major credit cards including Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express.

Yes, our payment processing is secure and easy! We use Stripe to handle all our credit card processing and they do a great job. Our checkout process and web pages are also PCI compliant.

Your payment for the monthly subscription is processed monthly, so you can cancel at any time with no advanced notice. For the one-time payment, you can cancel before it renews annually.

Yes! We are approved vendors with many charter schools. For more information about charter school purchases, go to the charter school link in the footer.

Downloading the mp3 files that contain the audio stories is easy. You need to first download them onto your computer and then they can easily be transferred onto any device. To download a story, press play, then click download on the right side of the player. When the screen comes up, click the three buttons on the side and choose download. This will start the download onto your computer. Locate the mp3 file and drag that file from there to the place you store your music. From there the file can be transferred onto any phone or tablet, just as you would a downloaded song or podcast. Once you do it once or twice, it really is an easy process, but depending on your connection speed it can take a few minutes for the mp3 file to download.

Yes! We love to share our passion for other cultures and hope you do too!

Yes! Around the World Stories makes a wonderful gift! Just click Gift Certificates in the header and follow the prompts.

Please write to AWS at hello@aroundtheworldstories.com.