Me Books
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The Me Books App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch includes fourteen titles, including The Zoo, Cinderella, Gingerbread Man, Jack and The Beanstalk and The Three Billy Goats Gruff, sold as in-app purchases. Features include the ability to create interactive audio ‘hotspots’ anywhere on a page by drawing around images or text with fingers and recording to them using the microphone. The idea is to let anyone personally narrate the story. It is also possible to add pre-recorded sound effects (such as the trumpeting of an elephant, to the chattering of monkeys in The Zoo). Voices are provided Adam Buxton, reading Goldilocks, and Josie Lawrence reading Cinderella. According to James Huggins "Audio is often hugely underused in the digital space. Sound is incredibly immersive and evocative and offers the perfect middle ground between a static book and interactive game experience. A story can be brought to life but, importantly, still leave plenty to the imagination."
iPad
Teaches: reading, language