Going Glamping for the weekend, try leave a bedtime story for the kids so they don’t miss you quite as much..

A Story before Bed is a New Service that allows parent and grandparent that cannot be with their kids, record a story into a web cam. They offer a large selection of story books for your deserting audience.

How it works? Readers chooses a story from the rapidly expanding library of over 60 licensed children’s books and record themselves reading it using a web cam. The storyteller’s voice is heard and their face appears, picture-in-picture style, on a full screen image of the book being read. Recording a story is free.

Other costs apply thou. A Story Before Bed recently launched an iPad app for viewing recorded stories.

Kids can also send their parents messages or read their reading homework to you…Novel little tool.