War Horse
© 2012 The Red Green & Blue Co Ltd.
This is a digital edition of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, designed to teach children about WWI and encourage them to discover the real stories behind the war's events, places, and participants. The app features the complete text of the novel, together with an 80 minute, unsynchronized, unabridged reading by the author and a musical performance. Other features include a timeline alongside the book that explores WWI through documents, maps, photographs and film. As with other Touch Press productions, each image is zoomable, and many of the objects can be rotated with a swipe. The app presents the war from both the Allied and German perspectives, as it does in the novel, and features narrated first-hand quotes and 200+ original photographs. The app also features a selection of video interviews with historians, experts, and the author. Topics covered include horses in war, trench life and the Western Front today, all supported by related images, subtitles, video and rotational photography. This is a must-download for those with an interest in history. Created in cooperation with Egmont, Illuminations Television and Touch Press.
$13.99, iPad
Teaches: history, reading, horses, music, Word War I, Germany, England
CTR Rating: 94%