Join Bud the Bunny and his best friend Bee for 30 pages filled with touch-activated animations, sound effects, and plenty of practice building B-word sentences. Listen to narration by Clare Kramer (Bring It On, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), or read on your own. Have fun bouncing a ball, changing Bud’s color, making Bud blink, and bursting bubbles to find best friend Bee!
Part of each sale goes to Kids Need To Read, a national nonprofit improving children’s literacy.
Originally published by Scholastic Australia, the best-selling book My Mom’s the Best comes to life with quality animation and sound at the touch of a finger.
Whether big or small, feathered or furry, moms always know how to make us feel special! My Mom’s the Best app is a simple, humorous depiction of baby animals celebrating what they love about their mums. Bruce Whatley’s illustrations are brought to life through interactive animations that children will love, while Rosie Smith’s story is enhanced with music, sounds of the wild and an amusing narration by Terry Rodman.
This app is also available in Australian English: ‘My Mum’s the Best’. You can find your localized version by clicking your country below:
USA | UK | Australia | Canada | Canada(Australian accent) | New Zealand
Have you ever worked hard on a project and nobody would help? In this classic tale of The Little Red Hen, presented by McGraw-Hill Education, the farmyard animals come to life through animation, music, and playful interactive effects. This book app features delightful illustrations and animations meant to help early readers with story comprehension.
Before YouTube, television, and cameras, how did people know what the president looked like? From paintings to political cartoons, newsreels and simple photography, kids will swipe, watch, listen and discover how the American people came to know what the president looked like and how technology changed what we see and how we see it.
Who can resist a day at the beach? With this cheerful makeover of a familiar lullaby, (Hush, Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word) little ones will be able to relive the blissful rhythm of a daylong seaside excursion through a delightful interactive experience.
Music and movement make for interactive fun for two-to-five-year-olds in this jubilant parade of an animal band that grows from a simple Ting! to the triumphant Tah-dah! of a full orchestra!
Chiming, ringing, buzzing and every other clock-sound imaginable fill the pages of this exuberant and energetic picture book app! A fanciful pair of friends, a horse and a blue jay, seem to lift off the screen, and kids will swipe, touch and tilt their way along with them as they animate both the myriad of clock sounds and the animals’ reactions.
Embark on a journey under the sea with Flow the stingray as he collects glowing pebbles on his way home. Learn to count from 1 to 10 with interaction and fun animations. Read the story to your young ones or have it narrated and let them discover the interactive fun elements.
A colorful, engaging voyage filled with magical animations, sounds, music and narration. Let’s go… Help Flow find his glowing pebbles.
Lay back, relax and experience this rare 138 year old version of Beauty and the Beast reimagined for the iPad.
Synthetic Nest’s Beauty and the Beast HD brings to life Walter Cranes fantastic original illustrations, combining them with tilt and touch controlled physics elements, touch animations, drag-able character cutouts and a whole array of fantastic sound effects.
Inspired by a love of books, we have carefully retain the original and authentic published text. A fairytale picture book that stays true to its gritty origin, complete with antique visual style and the soothing music of Georg Philip Telemann, makes this book app a truly gorgeous addition to your digital book library.
Join Mia as she sets out on an amazing adventure with her brother Miles to find a secret treasure! Along the way you’ll help them hang glide, set off mouse traps, pick flowers and more. Meet Mia’s new friends and share in their excitement as they bravely face danger in their quest to help Mia and her family.
Mia the Mouse is an engaging, rich interactive children’s tale with optional narration and read selections.
A portion of profits from Mia the Mouse are donated to select charities that support families struggling with poverty and hunger.
Magnus the dog lives in a small island named Manhattan. He is afraid of storms and terrified of thunders. And he’s had enough. He has decided to overcome his fear once and for all and bravely faces a menacing storm. But in doing so, Magnus is taken across the sky to a world where giant metallic creatures haunt him as he tries to find his way back home.
It is a strange day indeed in the life of this lovely Russell Terrier. But Magnus’ odd adventure takes a happy turn when he meets Olivia, a sweet six-year-old girl with a warm smile, and his life is changed forever. This fun app for children 4 and up includes interactivity on every page, voiceover, music, sound effects, games, and easy instructions on how to build your own electromagnet.
Starlinos is an interactive storytelling experience delivered to the convenience of your iPad, that features a series of original illustrations, created by parents, for kids. Featuring rich and original artwork and tap-and-play animation, and supported by a graph of the highest quality, this book will amaze all children from 3 to 8 years.
The Starlinos family is taking care of us, particularly of little Maya, who loves to gaze at the stars with her telescope. Follow her and her cat Dixi in this delightful tale, bearing a message of hope, dreams, happiness and magic!
Once upon a time, to be more exact Christmas Eve 1993, a young art student named Klas Holmlund ventured out into the streets of Stockholm as the clock was nearing midnight. There he had an experience which he three years later turned into an animated story which he published online. The story, Klas Christmas Tale, has proven immensely popular and is widely considered to be the one unmissable Christmas tradition on the internet in Sweden.
This year, Klas tale has been updated and turned into an iPad app using Demibooks Composer. The animations are the same as the ones loved by thousands of Swedes each year, as is the breathtaking soundtrack by japanese counter-tenor Yoshikazu Mera. However, the iPad app has been updated with an extra surprise in the end, which is sure to generate some holiday spirit for the user.
For boys and girls ages 3 – 8 who delight in making fish jump, bees buzz, and dinosaurs wiggle. With only a simple touch of a finger your child will follow Dinosaur Denny’s antics as he snorkels, showers, slides and safely hides.
Would your child like to bring our adorable but mischievous dinosaur home? Be prepared, our dinosaur loves to stop and play. Your child will also find a wonderful surprise that will bring pure delight to anyone who enjoys a happy ending.
Shortlisted for Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award
A Garden for Pig brings illustrator Ward’s “charming artwork” (Kirkus Reviews) to life in a richly-animated and produced story by Kathryn K. Thurman.
Kane Miller Books, a Division of EDC Publishing, specializes in award-winning children’s books from around the world. Publishing both fiction and non fiction picture books, each title strives to bring the children of the world closer to each other, sharing stories and ideas, while exploring cultural differences and similarities.
Steampunk Chess is a collection of chess puzzles, re-imagined in the Victorian and Edwardian periods as H.G. Wells and Jules Verne saw it. The puzzles are complete with steam-powered airships, clockwork automatons, and mechanical Rube Goldberg devices everywhere.
The app makes use of Composer’s support for sound files and simple programming behaviors for objects to create “virtual machines” on the pages of the iPad, designed to delight and challenge the user. Available this fall in the App Store.
A is vir Aardvark is a delightful journey through the Afrikaans Alphabet, with each page beautifully hand illustrated and animated by Karen Hart. Not only are the pages Illustrated and animated, but touch the animal and you will hear the sound it makes, touch the letters or words and hear them spoken phonetically in Afrikaans. This method of book crafting, allows children to navigate through the book without having to know how to read, yet aids with the identification and pronunciation.
A is vir Aardvark is 29 pages of fun for little ones and adults alike. The English version with 11 completely new illustrations will be available mid October. For more news and progress of other books, log into www.picsterbooks.co.za
Jimmy is an ordinary boy whose hooded pajamas suddenly transport him to the cosmic reaches of outer space. Readers interact with Jimmy to help him along in his adventure, exploring the wonders he discovers along the way.
Astrojammies is now also a hardcover book available on Amazon.com!
