The Book Machine recently featured a post by Ken Jones, explaining his inspired use of e-book technology to create an animated, interactive children’s storybook. Ken, who’s also running the Understanding eBooks event in London on April 25, worked with UK design and animation studio Tapocketa to develop their magnificent hand-crafted eBook, Galdo’s Gift.
An eBook, Not An App
Image: Tapocketa
What’s unusual about Galdo’s Gift is that it’s NOT an app, even though it is available on Apple Store. This is because of their belief that an app would entail higher production costs, while books as apps really need to be offered for free to succeed–and even then are lost in a world of games.
Instead, they used the fixed-layout EPUB3 standard, which builds on the modern open standards of the web (HTML5, CSS3 and JS). The word ebook conjures up a dated image of a gray page full of…
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Thank you, Chris 🙂
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Welcome, Nicholas 😃
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This is wonderful and it teaches reading, by reading out loud to kids, colorful, artistic, and totally charming!
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Thank you K.D. It’s wonderful to see the lovely responses. First and foremost we wanted Galdo’s Gift to be a fun and enchanting experience for the child and include lots of rich detail that can spark discussion with a parent/grown-up. We also take them back out of the on-screen experience at the end to show how they can create their own mini animations etc. Glad you like it 🙂
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Trevor, It is an amazing development in books for children. If I still had a little one at home, I would buy it immediately. My children are grown and now college graduates. Karen 🙂
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