Random House Children’s Books and Smashing Ideas partnership releases its first children’s book app for iPad 3 comments
Random House Children’s Books and digital media 
agency Smashing Ideas are about to launch their first book-based children’s app for the iPad. Wild About Books for iPad will be released tomorrow, December 16, 2010.
Based on the bestselling children’s picture book by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Marc Brown, Wild About Books for iPad will initially be available at a reduced price of $4.99. The regular price will be $7.99.
The award-winning picture book now roars to life in 16 animated and interactive scenes where kids can tilt, swipe, and tap their way through Judy Sierra’s rollicking rhymed story. Readers can choose to listen or turn off the narration and read at their own pace. Whether they’re making monkeys flip, beach balls bounce, animals stampede, or bears burp, parents and kids are sure to laugh, learn, and get wild about books together.
"Wild About Books for iPad capitalizes on a groundbreaking 3-D interpretation," said Ben Roberts, Director, ePublishing, Smashing Ideas and co-creator of Alice for the iPad. "Marc Brown’s gorgeous illustrations are linked to iPad movements so that each page becomes a scene in a 3-D world that you can twist and turn to intimately navigate and explore."
Wild About Books, Judy Sierra’s funny animal tale about librarian Molly McGrew, who introduces animals to reading, was published in 2004 to critical acclaim, winning the coveted E. B. White Read Aloud Award. With playful art paintings by Arthur creator Marc Brown, it was also named an ALA Notable Children’s Book and a Book Sense Book of the Year. Having sold nearly 500,000 copies to date, it has found a permanent place on bookshelves in libraries and homes across the country.
Wild About Books will be available from Dec. 16.
UPDATE: Wild About Books was delayed but is now available at iTunes.
The iPad version looks like a pop-up book. I love pop-up books — they make everything so easy for me to understand!
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The Wild About Books app appears to be delayed. The Random House website only says that it is “Coming Soon.” I’ve been checking for it every day – as soon as it arrives I’ll update the post.
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Thanks! I have been looking each day as well.
I cannot find the Wild About Books app in the iTunes app store. Please help.