Reviews Of The Week
Eileen Christelow’s Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (HMH, February 2011) and Sandra Boynton’s The Going to Bed Book (Little Simon, March 2011) are probably on most toddlers’ bookshelves. How do the app versions of these popular titles compare to the books and to each other?Oceanhouse Media’s Five Little...
As you may have noticed, yesterday was Dr. Seuss's 107th birthday (and the 14th annual Read Across America Day). I celebrated by drooling over the unbelievable Dr. Seuss-themed goodies over at Cakewrecks and making a birthday card for the good doctor with an app from Oceanhouse Media:I really would have...
I recently read and reviewed The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith, a book about the ways slavery and the Underground Railroad still haunt us (both metaphorically and literally). It had me wanting to reread The House of Dies Drear and wishing my copy were with me in Boston...
I have to say I laughed when the audiobook edition of Jerry Pinkney's famously wordless The Lion and the Mouse came into the office. But the production is from Weston Woods and I should have known better. While faithfully and realistically reproducing the sound effects that constitute the only printed...
Amulet/Abrams' Laura Mihalick gave me a neat book at Midwinter: Poem in Your Pocket for Young Poets: 100 Poems to Rip Out & Read, compiled by Bruno Navasky, and due out this March. While the book has a sturdy hardcover, its apparent aim is to gradually self-destruct, as the poems...
We saw a critic's pros and cons regarding children's apps; yesterday's Boston Globe presented those of parents.Here's your topic: are children's apps educational and entertaining, or mind-numbing and soul-sucking? All of the above? None of the above? Discuss amongst yourselves....
I have to admit to having some trepidation in reviewing children's apps. It's clear that book-related apps for kids are a different animal from kids' books -- but how different are they? Is what makes a good app the same as what makes a good book? Can I still talk...
Donald Crews's Caldecott Honor book Freight Train, beloved by train-crazed toddlers for decades, will win even more fans with the new app available from HarperCollins/Curious Puppy (December 2010).With the app's interactive elements, even kids who can recite the book backwards and forwards will find surprises. As each component of the...
I'm over at Out of the Box today opining on Wild About Books, my favorite thus far of the book apps I have read/heard/fingered/etc. A larger question here, though — why are the narrators for these things so annoying? Thank God you have the option to shut them up and...
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