![]() I stopped short of buying the subscription after seeing the kinds of books they had. They don't even have halfway decent books. ![]() Unicorn Island and Unicorn razzle dazzle. My son says it doesn't give sensible recommendations and it says that books for friendship: Regardless- they've lost our business, and I would recommend caution when allowing free use of this app with young children. I expect these sorts of slips on utilities like Youtube kids, but I'd had higher hopes for a subscription based system. He has now begged us to delete the Epic app, and he's hesitant to self curate his own content using other resources. Needless to say, we had a shaken five year old in our bed all night. Our children are pretty good about self regulating content, but nothing else in the book would have suggested that level of graphic content. Last night our five year old was flipping through a lego book when he encountered a gory scene of Jack the Ripper as a Lego- mutilated corpse and blood included. Each time the offender has been graphic imagery. Unfortunately, we'll be canceling our subscription after our third run in with inappropriate content. Having three voracious readers, we were extremely happy to find a resources like Epic. The other books we have come across are very violent or graphic. I really think epic needs to monitor their books or retire their application. That let you know that they are seeing things that we don’t catch, but this was unacceptable considering the times. My seven-year-old caught this before I did. And on one page one of the boys has a pig on his shirt. Halfway through the book he noticed that all the kids who are the bullies were white. Really caught my sons attention and he was super excited to read it. For example: Book titled: how to deal with bullies superhero style. And recently since Covid and Black Lives Matter movement I have noticed more and more books suggesting racism or hatred. Several times now however I have noticed books that were not appropriate for my children. I like the idea of my kids being able to pull up a library that’s just for them with books at their level. I have a second grader and first grader who are both assigned reading time on this app. We’ve used this website three years in a row.
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