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‘Where Do Balloons Go?’ Ask Jamie Lee Curtis.
I’ve seen enough apps to realize that “interactive” can mean a number of things—and I confess, I’m not always a fan. Too often these components have little connection to the story, or they’re so...
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Lunching on Sea Urchin, Abalone, and Clams
From birth to nine months a sea otter is schooled for independence by its mother. Combining story—including a bit of drama—with plentiful facts, this app is bound to appeal to young fiction and...
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Bill Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg Bend Reality
Autographed Imag.N.O.Tron app Author William Joyce and his creative partner, Brandon Oldenburg, aren’t exactly the kind of guys who play it by the book. Their wildly successful, Oscar-winning The...
View ArticleSLJ’s Best of Apps & Enhanced Books August 2012
Apps involving monsters, both real and imagined, are among the digital publications examined in School Library Journal's app review column Touch and Go.
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Best of Apps & Enhanced Books | April 2013
Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Universe. Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen. Visual design by Anthony Webster. Collins/BBC/the OTHER media. 2012. iOS, requires 5.0 or later. Version 1.21. $5.99. Gr 9 Up –Based on...
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Best of Apps & Enhanced Books | June 2013
BBC Earth Wonders.BBC Worldwide LTD. 2013. iOS, requires 5.0 or later. Version 1.0. $3.99. Gr 2 Up–Earth Wonders offers a collection of images showcasing the fierce and fascinating beauty of our...
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Best of Apps & Enhanced Books | July 2013
Ansel & Clair’s Adventures in Africa. Cognitive Kid, Inc. 2013. iOS, requires 4.3 or later. Version 1.1. $4.99. Gr 1-5–The intergalactic duo is back on Earth to take photos and notes and explore...
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The New Immigrants NYC 1880-1924 | Touch and Go
The promise of the today’s Internet and software is the ability to mine some of the best available resources—wherever they may be. That promise has seen fruition in New York City’s Department of...
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What Would Winston Do? | Touch and Go
Here’s something a little different from Touch Press, the developers of the extraordinary Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, The Waste Land, and Molecules, among other productions. Their new app is...
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It’s All About the Birds | Touch and Go
As a city dweller, I might have wondered about the statistic on the number of birders in the United States cited below. But having worked side-by-side with a dedicated birder at School Library Journal...
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Hilda Bewildered | Touch and Go
Few authors and developers create fictional stories for the iPad with the tween and teen audience in mind. Lynley Stace of Slap Happy Larry is an exception. A while back SLJ interviewed Stace about her...
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Charged! From Atoms to Electricity | Touch and Go
At this point we’re playing catch-up with Kids Discover; the developer has produced more than two dozen apps based on single issues of the magazine by the same name. While we have reviewed many of...
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Cat’s Cradle: A Graphic Adventure | Touch and Go
Panel from Cat’s Cradle, Book 1, The Golden Twine (Kids Can/Animanga Plus) Rioux Here’s an app based on a graphic novel. “LITE” views of the story are available in both iOS and Android, both...
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Winston Churchill, Snow White, and the Alphabet | App Reviews
Think Like Churchill (Touch Press) ©Jaime Huxable Metamorphabet. Patrick Smith. Vectorpark. illus. by the author. 2015. iOS, requires 7.0 or later. Version 1.03. $3.99. PreS-Gr 2–Fluid animation...
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Apprentice Architect | Touch and Go
From Apprentice Architect (Fondation Louis Vuitton/Touch Press) Through interactive activities users will have an opportunity to explore a museum designed by Frank Gehry and consider some of the...
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“Homes” Around the World | Touch and Go
Homes (Tinybop) ©2015 Tuesday Bassen We’ve reviewed a number of Tinybop apps recently—and there are more to come. Today it seemed appropriate to explore Homes—the developer just informed us that...
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Buried Alive | The Secret Michelangelo Took to His Grave
Drama of historical proportions, a storyteller’s pacing, choice details, archival images, music, and challenges punctuate Sarah Towle’s first app, Beware Madame La Guillotine (Time Traveler Tours,...
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Mortimer Redux | Touch and Go
As our reviewer Lalitha Nataraj notes, today’s apps were created using OCG Studio’s “Develop-Your-Own” framework, designed by the developer for artists and illustrators who want to build their own...
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Touch Press’s “Word Runners” App | Touch and Go
Viewers familiar with Twelve a Dozen will be interested to learn that Amplify and Touch Press have joined forces to produce educational, skill-building games, one per month, on a subscription basis....
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Eric Carle’s Brown Bear & Friends at 50 | Touch and Go
Generations of preschoolers have been entertained by Eric Carle’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? The beloved creature has turned 50, and to celebrate, a tap-and-touch encounter with the...
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