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Bram's Rattle Case

9 scenes · 18 talking words · 3 language levels

Tap the glowing spots in every scene to hear the words out loud.

About Bram's Rattle Case

Bram the beaver spots a striped suitcase with a wobbly wheel and carries it through the ticket hall, onto the platform, and into the clacking train. A clue slips free above the fields, the case jingles by the tunnel, and Pearl the gull greets it at the seaside terminus.

What happens, scene by scene

  1. 1A Wobbly Casesuitcase · wheel
  2. 2Ask At Windowticket · window
  3. 3Chime By Benchbench · clock
  4. 4Porter Rolls Pastbarrow · crate
  5. 5Up Into Traindoor · train
  6. 6Glimpse And Jingleseat · window
  7. 7Clue On Bridgebridge · ticket
  8. 8Jingle In Tunneltunnel · boot
  9. 9Pearl At Seaboat · shell

Words your child will hear and say

Every scene hides two tappable pictures. Tap one and it says its word out loud, then it is your child's turn.

Want to practise a specific sound instead? Open Practice in the story toolbar and pick any of the 26 sound decks — Buddy brings five cards from it into this story, without leaving the page.

How to read it together

Start at the right level

Level 1 is single words for early talkers. Level 2 is short phrases. Level 3 is full storybook sentences. Switch any time, even mid-scene — the art stays put and only the language changes.

Let them find the words

Two glowing spots hide in every scene. Tap one, hear the word, then pause and wait — the wait is where your child's turn happens.

Session-ready

Therapist mode mutes the narration and lays out each scene's target words with their speech-sound tags, so a clinician models and elicits every word live.

More stories in All Aboard

Bram's Rattle Case is one of four stories set in All Aboard. They share the same illustrated world and none of them tells the same tale twice.

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Reviewed by a licensed speech-language pathologist.