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04.25.13Little Red Riding Hood by Nosy Crow review (iPhone / iPad)It's been a while since Nosy Crow's last fairytale book-app Cinderella, although the publisher has kept itself busy making excellent apps like Rounds: Parker Penguin, Animal SnApp: Farm and Pip and Posy: Fun and Games (among others). Little Red Riding Hood by Nosy Crow is here, though, and it bears all the company's hallmarks: beautiful production values; canny use of your iPhone or iPad's hardware; and voice narration from children rather than adults. You know the tale: Little Red Riding Hood wandering through the woods to her Grandma's house, only to find a wolf in granny's bed with a set of big ...
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04.25.13Little Red Riding Hood by Nosy Crow live for iPhone and iPadParents, if your fairytale-loving kids haven't yet played with Nosy Crow's appy retellings of Cinderella and The Three Little Pigs, they're missing out on a treat. And now there's a third for the list. Little Red Riding Hood by Nosy Crow has gone live on the App Store this morning for iPhone and iPad, and from our early playtest, it's a beautiful piece of work. The app tells the familiar tale of Little Red Riding Hood, her Grandma and the Big Bad Wolf, but with some interactive twists. Your kids don't just read and watch the story play out: they collect objects ...
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04.15.13Sneak peek: Little Red Riding Hood by Nosy CrowIf your kids haven't played with Nosy Crow's The Three Little Pigs or Cinderella apps, they're missing out on a treat: beautiful animated, interactive storytelling based on much-loved fairytales. Now the publisher is working on another: Little Red Riding Hood. Due out in the not-too-distant future, it'll have a bit more of a gameplay element as kids collect items as the heroine travels through the woods on her way to save Grandma. Nosy Crow posted this YouTube video a couple of weeks ago (yes, we're slightly late) to show off the app, focusing on the Big Bad Wolf's version of events. See what ...
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02.11.13Nosy Crow’s Cinderella app dropping to 69p… on Valentine’s DayNosy Crow's beautiful Cinderella remains one of our favourite children's book-apps, a year and a half since its launch in September 2011. So here's some good news: it's going cheap – but only for a day. The publisher has announced that Cinderella will cost just 69p (that's 99 cents if you're in the US) this Thursday to celebrate Valentine's Day. "Our app may deviate from some versions of the story in a few ways – this Prince likes Cinderella because she’s kind and friendly, rather than just beautiful, and these stepsisters are “mean” rather than “ugly” – but it’s still a very ...
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12.13.12Rounds: Parker Penguin waddles onto iPhone and iPadWe literally don't have a bad word to say about penguins, whether in wrapped-chocolate biscuit form or flightless-Antarctic-bird form. And we Love The Work of apps publisher Nosy Crow. So we're excited about the launch of their new Rounds: Parker Penguin app, even if there isn't a chocolate biscuit in sight. This is all about animal penguins: an app to teach children about their biology, habits and life cycle. If that sounds dry, don't worry: this follows in the footsteps of the excellent Rounds: Franklin Frog, which did the same thing for frogs with engaging animations and fun interactive activities. Continue Reading...
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11.27.12Coming Soon: Nosy Crow’s Rounds: Parker PenguinWe love penguins. Pingu, Happy Feet, that episode of Andy's Wild Adventures when he meets Chinstrap penguins... All good. Which is why we're quite excited about Rounds: Parker Penguin. It's an app being made by British company Nosy Crow – we quite like crows too, by the way – as a follow-up to their excellent Rounds: Franklin Frog. Like that, the Parker Penguin app is an educational book-app for children with an interest in wildlife. "you can learn all about penguins and life in the Antarctic, and help Parker by sliding, swimming, hunting, marching, dancing – all the things that penguins do best," explains ...
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10.18.12Nosy Crow and Axel Scheffler team up for Animal SnApp: FarmAxel Scheffler: illustrated the Gruffalo (along with other great books). Nosy Crow: made a successful of beautiful interactive book-apps. They've made a new one together, you should probably buy it. That's enough detail, right? Oh, okay. It's called Animal SnApp: Farm, and it's Scheffler's first original storybook app – as opposed to Pip and Posy: Fun and Games, which was a set of mini-games based on his Pip and Posy books. The new app is set on a farm with six animal characters: Lucky Lamb, Gobbly Goat, Cuddly Cow, Portly Pig, Diggity Dog and Higgledy Hen. Each gets their own rhyming story ...
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09.03.12Parents! Nosy Crow wants YOUR children’s apps ideasAs parents, our relationship with children's app developers seems simple enough: they make 'em, and we buy 'em for our kids. But what if we had a chance to get more involved in the process of creating 'em? British publisher Nosy Crow is doing something interesting: asking parents for their ideas on what kinds of apps it should be making in 2013. "What’s the most important thing about a story app for you? Is interactivity more important than art? Is story more important than animation? What do you think the app of the future will look like?" asks the company in a ...
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08.22.12Rounds: Franklin Frog (iPhone/iPad review)Frogs and education intersect in two ways, as far as we're aware. There's the 'young children looking at tadpoles in a tank or pond' stage, and then quite a bit later, there's the 'slice them up with scalpels for GCSE Biology' stage. There's already an app alternative to the latter – the excellent Frog Dissection. Now Nosy Crow's Rounds: Franklin Frog is stepping in for the former. Released as a universal app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch for £2.99, the app marks Nosy Crow's move into non-fiction after a series of delightful book-apps based on fairytales (Three Little Pigs and Cinderella) and ...
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08.15.12Build a beard of bees with Nosy Crow’s new appIt feels like only a few days since British book-apps publisher Nosy Crow released its last app (mainly because it is). But now the company has another newie: The Grunts: Beard of Bees. And it's free! That's because it's a teaser for a new series of printed books called The Grunts, which launches next month complete with artwork from Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler. The idea here: "Build the biggest beard of buzzing bees as possible for Mr Grunt before the time runs out, but be careful – flowers, birds, and butterflies will all make his bees fly away". It's a game, rather than ...
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