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#103: Interactive picture-book offers a fun and immersive reading experience for parents and children!

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Having just getting hold on a new ipad, this would be a cool tool to entertain the young ones in my house! (LOL)

Touchoo’s latest interactive picture-book offers a fun and immersive reading experience for parents and children.

Thumbelina, the classic Andersen fairytale, tells the tale of a tiny flower girl, who goes through many adventures on her way to the ‘happily ever after’. This adaptation to touchscreens sports a very fresh design, age-appropriate interactivity and a rhyming text. This book-app makes the readers an important part of the adventure, as they help Thumbelina along her way through various interactions.

The book has been carefully translated into Spanish, French, German and Japanese – all equally rhyming and with a strong stress on text aesthetics in each of the languages; The availability in several languages is good news for readers whose mother tongue isn’t English and a great bonus for multi-lingual families.

“Kids, same as adults, are reading fewer and fewer books. Reading habits in early childhood have a major impact on literacy and on success later in life” says Touchoo’s co-founder and CEO, Omer Ginor.

“For the first time in many years, we now have a chance to reverse this process. Bringing young readers a timeless fairy tale such as Thumbelina in a creative, charming and immersive form – is a great way to re-connect children to the joys of a good storybook and to nurture lasting reading habits.”

Thumbelina offers readers to:

• Hear the story read by a narrator or record themselves reading the story;
• Participate in the story through various age-appropriate interactions;
• Control sound effects and music options;
• Choose auto page flip to accommodate young readers.

Thumbelina’s developmental benefits

• Nurtures the capacity for empathy and for reference to the other;
• Increases the ability to cope with difficulties and with failures;
• Encourages the capacity to seek help;
• Nurtures the ability to follow a narrative.

For more information, see Thumbelina’s webpage: http://touchoo.com/books/Thumbelina, or download the press kit: http://bit.ly/TinyPressKit.

To download the app from the app store:
http://bit.ly/TinyiPhoneFromPRWeb (iphone version)
http://bit.ly/TinyHDPRWeb (iPad version)
Review copies are available upon request.

Device Requirements:
Compatible with iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, running an iOS of 3.2 or newer

Pricing and Availability:
Thumbelina is available from Aug. 26th, 2010 worldwide on the Apple app store. The picture-book app will be on a $1.99 special offer until August 31st, when it will resume its original price point.

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