Little Monster at School
© 2012 Wanderful, Inc.
Don't call this new series "The Living Books" because Houghton Mifflin now owns the brand. The new brand is called "Wanderful." There are three titles: Little Monster at School (Mercer Meyer’s Little Monster goes to school, exploring subjects and making friends with Yally, an often difficult fellow student); The Tortoise and the Hare (a modernized edition of the classic Aesop’s Fable that illustrates that slow and steady wins the race); and Arthur’s Teacher Trouble (Marc Brown's Arthur has problems with Mr. Ratburn. Can he win the Spelling Bee?). Additional titles based on the late Jan & Stan Berenstain’s Berenstain Bears, Marc Brown’s Arthur, and others. Each Wanderful app is available in three versions: a standard, single language edition is $4.99 (and extra languages can be added for $1.99 each); the premium version features multiple languages plus a classroom activities guide and the right to perpetual updates for $7.99. Each title will be released with a free version, presenting one interactive story page. Introduced in 1992 by Broderbund Software, Living Books became best-selling early reading experiences. Twenty years later, Wanderful has assembled key members of the original Living Books team, including creator Mark Schlichting. Mickey W. Mantle, President of Wanderful was the former CTO of Broderbund. Each app includes the classic “read to me” mode, so children can watch and listen to the story play automatically. Wanderful apps will be available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch on iTunes and the Mac versions will be on the Mac App Store later this month. Android and Windows versions are planned. See the YouTube (promotional video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQOfhqCGyUs.
$5, Mac OSX, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Teaches: reading, language