Dublin dad's reading app competing for national award

As a lover of children's books, Erick Slangerup decided there has to be an easier way to bond with his 5-year old daughter Nina when it comes to story time.Knowing that his cell phone was always in his pocket he decided to use the technology to build a connection with his daughter over the love of reading."Sometimes there are days when you don't have the time you may have one spare minute and I wanted that the time to tell a story," he says.Slangerup, whose background is writing children's books