developed by Siliq Digital ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 22, 2011
A tasty confection, likely to tempt more than just its young target audience.
Set up by a separate but free prelude app, the first episode of a projected four sends two intrepid chocolate drops (one white, one brown) to Bird Island on a feather-finding expedition.
Barely have the explorers landed in their banana spaceship than Latti (the white one) is snatched by a trio of chocolate-loving meerkats. Pursuing, Chokko follows the kidnappers into Owl Valley, which has been plunged into darkness by the departure of all the fireflies. By the end, Latti remains in captivity, but light is restored after Chokko teaches the feathered residents of the valley how to make candle lanterns. The stylized cartoon illustrations resemble polychrome Chinese papercuts in general form and detail. They are heavily endowed both with animated figures and also with touch- or touch-and-hold effects that range from a fingertip flashlight and moveable items to scrolling backgrounds and snatches of sound. The text and (optional) audio narration is available in nine languages (three that do not use the Roman alphabet), and both can be flicked on or off at will on any screen. Each screen also contains slightly hidden feathers that sharp-eyed viewers can “collect” with a tap. Links at the ends of both apps will go live as new chapters become available (for purchase).
A tasty confection, likely to tempt more than just its young target audience. (iPad storybook app. 5-8 and up)Pub Date: Dec. 22, 2011
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: -
Publisher: Siliq Digital
Review Posted Online: Feb. 13, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2012
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by Doreen Cronin & illustrated by Harry Bliss ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 2005
The wriggly narrator of Diary of a Worm (2003) puts in occasional appearances, but it’s his arachnid buddy who takes center stage here, with terse, tongue-in-cheek comments on his likes (his close friend Fly, Charlotte’s Web), his dislikes (vacuums, people with big feet), nervous encounters with a huge Daddy Longlegs, his extended family—which includes a Grandpa more than willing to share hard-won wisdom (The secret to a long, happy life: “Never fall asleep in a shoe.”)—and mishaps both at spider school and on the human playground. Bliss endows his garden-dwellers with faces and the odd hat or other accessory, and creates cozy webs or burrows colorfully decorated with corks, scraps, plastic toys and other human detritus. Spider closes with the notion that we could all get along, “just like me and Fly,” if we but got to know one another. Once again, brilliantly hilarious. (Picture book. 6-8)
Pub Date: Aug. 1, 2005
ISBN: 0-06-000153-4
Page Count: 40
Publisher: Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2005
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by Andrew Clements & illustrated by R.W. Alley ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 23, 2005
Give this child’s-eye view of a day at the beach with an attentive father high marks for coziness: “When your ball blows across the sand and into the ocean and starts to drift away, your daddy could say, Didn’t I tell you not to play too close to the waves? But he doesn’t. He wades out into the cold water. And he brings your ball back to the beach and plays roll and catch with you.” Alley depicts a moppet and her relaxed-looking dad (to all appearances a single parent) in informally drawn beach and domestic settings: playing together, snuggling up on the sofa and finally hugging each other goodnight. The third-person voice is a bit distancing, but it makes the togetherness less treacly, and Dad’s mix of love and competence is less insulting, to parents and children both, than Douglas Wood’s What Dads Can’t Do (2000), illus by Doug Cushman. (Picture book. 5-7)
Pub Date: May 23, 2005
ISBN: 0-618-00361-4
Page Count: 32
Publisher: Clarion Books
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 2005
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