Are you as excited as I am to celebrate Get Caught Reading Month? Do you love when favorite books get turned into apps? I know I do! My children love books and I love finding adventurous and educational books and apps for them! I feel books help build their thinking, feelings, and views on life. So let me get to it and share all the great information with you that’s going on for the whole month of May!
Silver Dolphin Books has a whole lot to celebrate this month!
FIRSTLY: Beloved author Mercer Mayer and Little Critter are participating for the first time this year in the Association of American Publisher’s (AAP) national ?Get Caught Reading? celebrity poster campaign. Created to inspire a love of reading in people of all ages, Mercer Mayer appears in a poster together with Little Critter as they are ?caught
reading? an original copy of the book, Little Critter’s The Trip, celebrating the print edition’s transition into Silver Dolphin Books award-winning app, The Trip ? Little Critter Reading Adventure.
Posters are made available to teachers and parents for use in classrooms, libraries and other locations throughout the country. All posters are free, but the AAP asks that you pay $5.00 per set for shipping & handling, whether you order one poster or 12. A set is defined as any number of posters that you order between one and 12! Posters can be ordered here!
SECONDLY: The Trip ? Little Critter Reading Adventure was recently awarded The National Parenting Center’s 2013 coveted Seal of Approval.
The National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval program identifies the finest products and services for the parent/child audience. From educational and entertainment products and equipment to travel destinations, the consumer oriented testing process solicits evaluations from parents and their children. This award signifies to other parents that their peers have acknowledged a product’s quality and desirability based on a wide variety of determining factors.
Over the past few weeks, our first two fun-filled interactive apps for young children The Trip ? Little Critter Reading Adventure and The Trip ? Little Critter GamePak have received top accolades from respected children’s educational app review sites, with FunEducationalApps.com naming both apps as a ?Top Pick.?
Additional accolades for The Trip ? Little Critter Reading Adventure include:
Selection by Parenting.com as ?App of the Week?
BestAppsForKids.com awarded the app a ?Five Gold Star Review?SmartAppsForKids.com wrote: ?An interactive book app and so much more.?Famigo.com gave the LITE version a ?Five Star Review?AppySmarts.com listed it as an Editor’s FavoriteDigitalStorytime.com declared: ?The educational (and wholesome) focus makes it a reassuring choice for many parentsBestAppsForKids.org wrote that the app is ??a fun-filled educational experience in letters, numbers, shapes, colors, map reading and more?iMums.com wrote: ?The reading adventure is a really fun version with lots of additional dialog, animations, interactivity and learning games.?
Did you know May 13th-19th is Children’s Book Week?
So for one week, Silver Dolphin Books is reducing the price of The Trip ? Little Critter Reading Adventure app from $3.99 to just $0.99, available worldwide through iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Google Play. So go download your app now!
About the App!
A National Parenting Center’s 2013 Seal of Approval recipient, children are invited to travel along with Little Critter and his family on an action-packed road trip in The Trip ? Little Critter Reading Adventure app. Kids can help Little Critter choose the route the family will take to explore the countryside, the city, the beach and more; fix the car when it breaks down; move a horse stuck in the middle of the road; feed the seagulls; and even find time to grab a hot dog. All this while playing lots of games with Little Sister along the way to pass the time!
Recommended for ages three to seven, the app emphasizes basic pre-school and early elementary curriculum and incorporates an inventory collection and selection feature designed to build critical problem-solving skills; alphabet flashcards hidden on every screen teach and reinforce letter recognition; and successful completion of six puzzles?including sequence and matching games?unlock six collectible gems used to play an arcade-style game. Other features include text highlighting, visual interactive item clues and professional audio narration and dramatization, which all help to keep non-readers engaged with the story.
A complementary app, The Trip – Little Critter GamePak ($3.99), includes over 50 fun and engaging activities featuring Little Critter and introduces the Company’s new Digistix??interactive, animated stickers with fun sound effects.
Appy Award-winner John R. Sansevere (Little Critter: Where is My Frog) is the producer of both apps.
So please celebrate and enjoy all of these wonderful promotions of Get Caught Reading Month! I know I’m taking advantage, and I hope you do too!
