Life Episode 28: The Candy Gobbler: A Halloween Special

The Purple Rocket Podcast

Greg Webb

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Here it is Rocketeers! The fully illustrated Halloween special! The Novel Effect Team and I have joined forces to bring you this interactive adventure. After listening to this episode, be sure to download the free Novel Effect App below and open The Candy Gobbler. As you read the ebook in-app you will see all the fun illustrations and the music/sound effects will automatically synchronize to your reading! It's amazing! Enjoy! And Happy Halloween! The Candy Gobbler: The last thing Kevin wants to do on Halloween is take his little sister Gracie trick-or-treating. So, he tries to spook Gracie with the tale of the Candy Gobbler, a mischievous candy bandit that goes around stealing kids' candy. But it isn't long before Kevin realizes that his story isn't just a story after all. Click here to download the free Novel Effect App: https://noveleffect.page.link/PsKZV8pRRYJTLYnH9

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0:00.0	Rocketeers, I'm so excited about this episode, this Halloween special.
0:06.6	This is a very unique story that I did this year, and I had a blast making it.
0:12.3	So I teamed up with the team behind the novel effect app.
0:17.3	This is an incredible free app that synchronizes music and sound effects to your words as
0:22.6	you read a book out loud.
0:24.2	It seriously blows my mind.
0:26.4	It's my new favorite toy.
0:27.4	It's hilarious.
0:28.4	How much I use this thing.
0:29.4	And parents, maybe you saw the novel effect app on the show Shark Tank.
0:33.6	The whole idea behind novel effect is to encourage kids to read, to make it more fun and
0:38.6	engaging for families to sit down and just enjoy a book together.
0:42.4	I've literally been using it every night with my kids since I downloaded it against.
0:47.6	It's free.
0:48.6	And they updated it with new soundscapes for books every week.
0:52.5	The other night I read Chick-A-Chick-A-Boom-Boom.
0:55.2	I love you forever, Alexander, and the no good, terrible, very bad day.
1:00.6	I mean, they have so many good books on there.
1:03.0	Anyway, I've been playing around with this app and it's been incredible.
1:06.9	And what we've done for this story is we've created an illustrated book version of this
1:12.6	Halloween episode that you can download for free on the app.
1:17.4	And as you read it out loud, it will synchronize to the same music and sound effects that you
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