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Children's IPad Book App Takes Advantage of Tablet Technology

BY DOUG RULE | MON JUL 18, 2011 3:23 PM

new children's book created as an iPad app combines

elements of animation, storytelling and interactive

gaming in a sign of how tablet technology could revolutionize

the genre.

Moonbot Studios' "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris

Lessmore" is currently the number-one books and number-two

Top Paid app in Apple's App Store. The story follows its amusingly

named titular character as he gets swept away in a storm, before

winding up in a building filled with books, which Lessmore

befriends and cares for, and even writes his own.

On each page of the lushly animated story, a reader can

manipulate what transpires: swirl a finger around at one point to

flip the house or change the way the wind blows, or linger over a

book to hear famous lines. There is optional background music and

narration all throughout, which a reader such as a parent can turn

off to read the text aloud.

William Joyce, who's worked on animation for Pixar, DreamWorks

and Disney as well as illustrated some New Yorker covers,

designed the book. It's available for $5 in Apple's App Store.

Joyce's book is a new breed of children's book, coming at a time when tablets are

increasingly finding their way into children's hands, whether it be through e-book apps or

other titles. Various publishing houses are still working on converting traditional titles in

their catalog into e-book formats.

Meanwhile, a couple of companies, including LeapPad and VTech, have developed tablets

specifically geared to children aged four years and up. The tablets are preloaded with

educational entertainment apps.

Children are increasingly adept with technology, with a recent study found that two out of

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