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Magic Ink – The Night Before Christmas – Featured App

Magic Ink - The Night Before Christmas

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!

Magic Ink - The Night Before Christmas - Magic Ink Books

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Twas The Night 3D, Christmas Experience – Featured App

Twas The Night 3D, Christmas ExperienceThe 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 3D, Christmas Experience - FlyingWord, Inc.

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The Happy Elf StoryChimes – Featured App

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*Written by Grammy Award winner Harry Connick, Jr.!

ABOUT THE HAPPY ELF

Eubie is the happiest elf at the North Pole. More than anything else, he longs to be a part of Santa’s sleigh team. Instead, he’s stuck checking Santa’s lists. Until one Christmas Eve he sees something strange: In the whole town of Bluesville, not a single person has been nice. So with a pinch of elfish magic and a magical whoosh, Eubie’s off to Bluesville. But can he turn a whole town of children nice in just one day?
Based on the beloved holiday song “The Happy Elf” by Grammy Award winner Harry Connick, Jr., and with vibrant illustrations from Dan Andreasen, The Happy Elf is a new holiday classic for the entire family.

FEATURES:
- Now includes a match game!
- Karaoke like text scroll (highlights red as you read)
- Bookmarking to pick up where you left off
- Read at your own pace without audio and scroll text
- Facebook integration
- E-mail a friend about the App
- Help menu
- Large page turn area
- 3D page turn provides a tactile “feel”
- Beautiful illustrations
- Great music

The Happy Elf StoryChimes - Siena Entertainment, LLC

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Michael Garland’s ‘An Elf for Christmas’ – Featured App

Michael Garland's 'An Elf for Christmas'

Giant Atom is the creator of the Top 10 iPad app ‘Icarus Swinebuckle’. We now bring to you a special Christmas story by the New York Times Best Selling Author Michael Garland.For ages 2-6.

Originally published as a hardcover book by Dutton Children’s Books. Now brought to you by Giant Atom as an iPad app with extended features.

At Santa’s workshop a hardworking but exhausted elf named Tingle, falls asleep in a toy plane he has helped to build. The plane is boxed and wrapped with him snoozing in the cockpit. Unknowingly Santa delivers the package to a boy named Joey. On Christmas morning, Tingle finds himself face to face with this excited boy. After several close calls with the family dog, the elf manages to escape up a chimney and tries to fly the plane back to the North Pole. Another mishap occurs, but a friendly polar bear comes to the rescue and delivers Tingle to Santa’s door.

Features:

*Written and Illustrated by New York Times Best Selling Author Michael Garland
*Read-A-Long with highlighted words
*Narration by P.J. Brennan
*Video Pages
*Page flip technology
*Auto Read On/Off
*Record your own voice

Michael Garland's 'An Elf for Christmas' - Giant Atom


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Peekaboo Presents – Featured App

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‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse….that is except for the present bouncing under the Christmas tree! In this festive new addition to the Peekaboo series there are 13 different gifts hiding inside the present ready to delight your little one. Unwrap a chugging choo-choo train, a friendly dinosaur, dancing pajamas and more!

This merry app is both fun-filled and educational. With younger children work on repeating sounds effects and names and when playing with older children listen to the sound effects coming from the present and see if they can guess which gift is hiding inside. Each present name is written out which also allows the opportunity to practice reading and letter recognition.

FEATURES INCLUDE

- Tap the bouncing present to unwrap 13 different gifts, each with unique sounds and actions
-Choose from our cute 4 year old child narrator or the adult voice, for a clearer and correct pronunciation
-Original music and fun sound effects that correspond with the presents’ actions
-Hear and see the words repeated for each item, helping children both learn to say and spell the names
-Select looped mode for endless play or storybook mode- which ends with a glimpse of Santa and all the presents sleeping – perfect for bedtime!

Peekaboo Presents - Night & Day Studios, Inc.

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Christmas Tale HD – Free App of the Day

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★★★ Voted the Very Best Multimedia Book for 2011 Christmas! ★★★

Christmas Tale brings the holiday spirit to you and your children, unfolding Christmas events as you move through the pages. Come and meet Santa at his home in the North Pole and join him as he brings joy and happiness to all the children of the world.

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN:
Visit Santa’s home and help Santa, his wife and the family of elves count the days, hours and minutes till Christmas.

CHRISTMAS PIANO:
Find the Christmas tree in the family living room. Decorate the tree and you’ll find that the ornaments’ bells are a Christmas piano.
When your decorations are complete take a screenshot of your tree and send it to your family and friends via email.

CHRISTMAS WISH LIST:
Compose your Christmas wish list and store it inside the app. When ready, you can send it via email.
Use the “Send to Santa” feature to articulate the holistic notion of a wish.

Features:
★ Fantastic HD illustrations covering all book pages.
★ Numerous, engaging and fun activities on every page – reveal an enchanting reading experience never seen before on iPad/iPhone.
★ Take your time and find all the joyful interactions in every page. For assistance choose “Tips” from the menu and reveal all the hidden features.
★ “Read to Me” – reads the story to you as you turn the pages
★ “Auto Play” – reads the story to you and automatically flips the pages.

Christmas Tale HD - TabTale LTD

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer- Win This App!

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Oceanhouse Media


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Arthur Christmas Movie Storybook – Free App of the Day

Arthur Christmas Movie Storybook

Arthur Christmas is an interactive storybook app that at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to the question on every child’s mind: how does Santa deliver all of those presents in one night?!

It may have something to do with Santa’s secret high-tech operations at the North Pole, including the super cool, mile-wide sleighship, the S-1. However, the story takes a twist when Arthur, the story’s unlikely hero, is called upon to complete an urgent mission to deliver the last present that was accidentally left behind.

The storybook features original content from the feature film, including images and character voices and is the only way parents and their children can get a sneak peak before the film debuts or re-live the magic after seeing the movie in the box office. In-story activities include:

•The Arthur Christmas Story: with images and audio straight form the movie
•Narration Options: Read to Me, Read to Myself and Auto Play – makes it a great for kids of all ages
•Make Arthur Look Like Santa: Apply digital stickers to Arthur’s face for a hilarious Santa-like snow costume
•Countdown to Christmas Meter: Digitally track down to the second just how close you’re getting to the big day
•Lull the Lions to Sleep: Swipe back and forth on the screen to help Arthur distract the hungry lions so they can finish their quest to deliver the lost present

Arthur Christmas Movie Storybook - zuuka incorporated

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