Book Reviews
Beautiful nonfiction app Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night (Bookerella and Story Worldwide, 2012) introduces primary and intermediate users to the world's only flying mammal.Author Mary Kay Carson — whose many nonfiction print books for children include 2010 Scientists in the Field title The Bat Scientists — presents accessible information...
Touch Press, developers of The Elements and X is for X-Ray, present a virtual odyssey through the ancient monuments of the Giza Plateau in Pyramids 3D: Wonders of the Old Kingdom (October 2012). 3D imaging and zoom capabilities allow for 360 degree rotation and manipulation of space and objects in...
Touch Press, developers of such apps as The Elements and March of the Dinosaurs, presents X Is for X-Ray (2011), an interactive alphabet book designed to elucidate the ins and outs of everyday objects through x-ray photography. With a series of swipes and pinches (swipe up for natural light, down...
Rounds: Parker Penguin by Barry and Emma Tranter (Nosy Crow, December 2012) is the second entry in this series of nonfiction apps about life cycles for preschool users. The text and interjections from anthropomorphized Parker present information about emperor penguins' physiology and behavior, their Antarctic habitat, and their place in the...
Rounds: Franklin Frog by Barry and Emma Tranter (Nosy Crow, August 2012) is a great interactive nonfiction app for one- to three-year-olds. First in Nosy Crow's new series of nonfiction apps based on life cycles, Franklin Frog presents the life of a frog — including feeding, hibernation, mating, birth, metamorphosis,...
Barefoot Books collaborated with developer Touch Press on a digital companion to their Barefoot Books World Atlas written by Nick Crane and illustrated by David Dean (November 2011). The atlas's introduction explains that unlike most atlases, it's organized by region rather than continent, partly to emphasize how "people in different...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson; illus. by the author Intermediate Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 108 pp. 9/11 978-0-06-173074-0 $19.99 “Most folks my age and complexion don’t speak much about the past,” begins the unnamed narrator of this graceful and personalized overview...
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