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January 6, 2013
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Book Nook: Lulu and the Brontosaurus; Look Another Book!

Originally posted on The Jenny Evolution

Every week, I review books I have read with my family. And because, although our kids are digital, it doesn’t mean learning doesn’t happen the old-school way with actual paper books! So I thought, along with the educational apps I’m sharing with all of you, I would also offer books I would personally recommend.

This week, the following books tickled my young readers:

Look! Another Book! (Look! A Book!) by Bob Staake
Lulu and the Brontosauruss by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Lane Smith

Look! Another Book!: The second in the series, Look! Another Book! offers more than 125 thing to seek and find! Die-cuts help children focus in on a detail. Then they can turn the page and take in the jam-packed pictures. We had a great time playing “I Spy” with this book as well as laughing at the hysterical things we could spot. A pirate fishing with a banana? Check. A crab holding a candy cane? Check. A fish reading mail? Check!

JENNY SAYS: Look! Another Book! matches the goofy sense of humor of children and captures their attention and imagination. This book gives them lots of practice being able to hone in on details of a busy page as well as practice and grow their vocabulary. This book offers fun exploration alone or with a grown-up.

To purchase the book, click here.

Lulu and the Brontosaurus: Lulu’s parents never say no. But when she announces she wants a Brontosaurus for her birthday, Lulu’s parents finally have to put their foot down. Lulu won’t take no for an answer, so she heads off into the forest to get her own Brontosaurus, but the dinosaur has other plans. Of course, there’s a lesson hidden in here for “sweet” Lulu.

As a parent reading these chapter books to my son, it’s easy to get bored. Judith Viorst has a wonderfully dry sense of humor that left my son and I giggling throughout the book. The illustrations by Lane Smith give just the right amount of visual interest without killing the ability to create your own images in your head.

JENNY SAYS: What a wonderful chapter book! We ate up Lulu and the Brontosaurus, laughing and eager to find out what happened next. Chapter books abound for kids, but this one is an absolute winner.

To purchase this book, click here.

To view all of my Book Nook Books, please visit my round-up on Amazon.

The Brontosaurus never existed (npr.org)

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January 1, 2013
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The Gingerbread Man – Featured App

Here’s a great recipe to cook up a love for early reading in your child. You and your little one will laugh, laugh as hard as you can because they can’t catch him, he’s The Gingerbread Man!

Add this delightfully illustrated and narrated Kidztory classic animated interactive children’s storybook to your collection. You can choose Read to Me or Read by Myself. Don’t forget to poke around on the pages as there are plenty of sounds and animations to be discovered.

Like every Kidztory children’s app, The Gingerbread Man shares a gentle lesson, so download this app now and amuse the kids with a story they’ll remember forever.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Featured App (generationikid.com)

December 24, 2012
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Magic Ink – The Night Before Christmas – Featured App

Experience The Night Before Christmas in a way you have never experienced it before – through Magic Ink Books™ beautiful rendition of the classic Christmas poem.

Features:

✦ Use Magic Ink to to color in pages and reveal beautiful color illustrations
✦ Find the carolling mice hidden on every color page (starring The Duke’s Men)
✦ Launch secret animations and sounds
✦ Watch Santa’s sleigh fly into the distance
✦ See Santa shoot up the chimney
✦ Read to Me: Choose a narrator (male or female) to read the book to you
✦ Read it Myself
✦ 1 Purchase gets you both iPhone/iPod and iPad versions!

How The Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss – Featured App (generationikid.com)
Twas The Night Before Jasper’s Christmas – Free App of the Day (generationikid.com)

December 24, 2012
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Twas The Night 3D, Christmas Experience – Featured App

The classic story ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore brought to you with the beautifully artwork of Greg Hildebrandt enhanced into 3D pop-up that you can really move around.

✭ Pull up a chair, sit by the crackling fireplace and see Santa the way you remember him as a child, touch his belly to make him laugh.
✭ Move the reindeer to make Santa’s sleigh fly through the sky.
✭ Touch the sugarplums and make them dance.
✭ Includes beautiful illustrations by one of the great artist/illustrators of the last 40 years, Greg Hildebrandt beautifully restored from the original print negatives and then revitalized into an innovative 3D pop-up presentation that you control.

Twas The Night Before Jasper’s Christmas – Free App of the Day (generationikid.com)

December 21, 2012
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The Night Before Christmas – Featured App

Bring some holiday magic this Christmas with a story that will entertain children of all ages. For generations, Christmas wouldn’t be complete without family and a reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas. Now, this cherished classic is brilliantly recreated in a charming, contemporary way that captures all the enchantment and “joyful good cheer” of Saint Nick’s annual visit.

This animated storybook provides the option of a full “Read to Me” experience.

Twas The Night Before Jasper’s Christmas – Free App of the Day (generationikid.com)

December 10, 2012
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer- Win This App!

WIN THE RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER APP!

We all love Rudolph. And now you can enter to win this wonderful book app!

WORKS ON IPHONE, IPAD AND ITOUCH.

Click here for a chance to enter!

ABOUT THE APP: All the other reindeer make fun of Rudolph’s bright red nose and won’t let him play in their reindeer games. But when Christmas is almost cancelled because of a huge snowstorm, Rudolph comes to Santa’s rescue!

Like Rudolph himself, this omBook is special. It includes custom music, background audio, enlarged artwork for each scene, and authentic audio clips from the timeless 1964 TV special! The app also includes special effects for Rudolph’s glowing nose and falling snow!

To promote reading in young children, individual words are highlighted as the story is read. By combining the original text and beautiful artwork with features that entertain and promote reading, this omBook appeals to readers of all ages.

December 4, 2012
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Tinker Bell & Friends – Free App of the Day

Meet Tinker Bell and her friends in this cute, free Magic Ink Book.

Experience Never Land in a way you have never experienced it before – through Magic Ink Books™ beautiful rendition.

Features:

✦ Use Magic Ink to to color in pages and reveal beautiful color illustrations
✦ Listen to Tinker Bell and her friends talk to you.
✦ Read to Me: Choose a narrator (male or female) to read the book to you
✦ Read it Myself

The History of Tinker Bell (nms93.wordpress.com)

November 30, 2012
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Nighty Night! – Winter Special – Free App of the Day

This is one of our personal favorites of all time! And it’s free… but not for long!

★ App of the Year 2011 in the “Books” category in the USA!

NIGHTY NIGHT! The interactive bedtime book for children. Winter has arrived on our “Nighty Night” farm – it even snowed last night! Delve into the snowy world and put all the animals to bed.”Nighty Night!” is the perfect App for a daily go-to-sleep ritual with sweet music and elegant narration. All around the house the lights go out, and even the animals in the barn are tired. But who puts them to bed? Who turns out the lights in their stalls? That is the task for small children aged 1-4. Watching all the animals go to sleep is a lovely way to set the mood for bedtime.

“Nighty Night!” is brought to you from Oscar-Nominee Heidi Wittlinger (2002, best animated short) who put a lot of passion and effort in constructing little sets made of paper and combining them with 2D illustration and animation.

HIGHLIGHTS:

✓ Stunning designs by Oscar nominated artist Heidi Wittlinger

✓ 2D illustration and animation

✓ 7 interactive animals (Dog, Pig, Sheep, Duck, Cow, Fish, Chicken)
✓ Accompanied by melodic lullaby music
✓ Actor Alistair Findlay as a story narrator
✓ Autoplay function
✓ Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese and JapaneseSPECIAL FEATURES:
✓ Falling snow on the farm
✓ Switch between winter and summer version
✓ A snowman sings Jingle Bells
✓ The full Jingle Bells video by the “Nighty Night” AllStars available via in-app purchase

November 30, 2012
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Forgotten Colours – Interactive Edition – Free App of the Day

Put some color and inspiration back into your life, with Forgotten Colours – Interactive Edition, a collection of illustrated and interactive stories for the whole family. A journey where fantasy and reality blend to show us a new way of understanding the world.

What would happen if the world’s colour started to vanish and everything turned pale, gray and gloomy?

Carmesina knows, she is the main character in a story where colours are disappearing until she meets a black cat, an event that will change the course of her life.

This is the plot of the first story in “Forgotten Colours and Other Illustrated Stories”, a summary of 15 stories about love, friendship, fears, courage… seen from a slightly different point of view, half way between reflection and smile.

A journey to other worlds and other times, where fantasy and reality blend to awaken the best in ourselves.

▶ Vídeo Trailer: http://youtu.be/ImZ-QlZbaP8

♦♦♦ FEATURES ♦♦♦
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✓ A book for the whole family.
✓ Wonderful illustrations that accompany each story.
✓ Interactive elements that exploit the capabilities of the iPhone.
✓ 5 stories that deal with universal themes from an optimistic point of view.
✓ Soundtrack that brings a new dimension to the story.
✓ Languages: English, Spanish and Catalan.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss – Featured App (generationikid.com)

November 29, 2012
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Spot the mistakes Holidays – Featured App

★ TOPSELLER! Our “Spot the mistakes”-activity apps have been sitting tight at No.1 in Germany for weeks (in all categories)

What’s wrong here? In the interactive activity books by Ralf Butschkow there are lots of strange and wonderful things to discover. Children can read Lisa’s story, listen at the same time and search for hidden mistakes, highlight them and reveal them. A colourful reading, listening and searching activity for little discoverers.

FEATURES
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✔ Search-and-find alarm: almost 130 amusing mistakes
✔ Lovingly drawn illustrations by the popular children’s book illustrator Ralf Butschkow
✔ Funny sound effects
✔ Read-aloud function included: empathetically read by native speakers
✔ Language options: German, English and Chinese (Mandarin)
✔ Cheat function: reveals all the mistakes
✔ Endless fun searching and finding: mistakes that have already been found can be hidden again, so that you can look again or other family members can search too
✔ Simple operation by finger swipe – page turning is even simpler now

CONTENTS
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Lisa is already excited, because she’s about to go on vacation with her mom and dad. And the excitement doesn’t stop, because on the journey there are lots of exciting and strange things to see. A boat anchor along the railroad tracks, grandpa’s chicken coop has a roof made of chocolate and there’s a rhinoceros in the barn.

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