Hi KM
the ipad and ipod have a lot of ereader options. There are audio reader apps for free and paid which have 1000s of books although possibly not the books DD might want to read. For younger children ebooks routinely have audio components but she might still like them as a way to get more comfortable. They might have that feature for some kid chapter books too, I tend not to look at actual kid books on the ipad so I am not sure.I also saw online that there is some feature in ibooks which allows for the reading of any book, but haven't found it on mine yet, I will check - just found this - not sure it works on the touch - but should since ibooks should be the same in both

iBooks Text to Speech Feature on iPad
* On your iPad's Home Screen, tap the Settings section and choose General Settings on the left hand column.
* On the right column, choose Accessibility.
* Turn Voice Over item on and adjust as desired.
* Then turn the iPad speaker on, run iBook app and choose a book you want to listen to.
* Touch a sentence and swipe downwards with two fingers. It will start reading from cover to cover.

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