Posted in iPad, iPad eBooks, KidsApps of the week | on 29-01-2011
“The butterfly wished to procure a bride for himself -of course, one of the flowers- a pretty little one. He looked about him. Each one sat quietly and thoughtfully on her stalk, as a young maiden should sit, when she is not affianced; but there were many of them, and it was a difficult matter to choose amongst them.
The butterfly could not make up his mind; so he flew to the daisy. The French call her Marguerite; they know that she can tell fortunes, and she does this when lovers pluck off leaf after leaf and ask her at each one a question about the beloved one…”
The famous stories of Hans Christian Andersen simply do not need a better introduction than this piece of tale.
Rborn team just launched a fairy tales book of Hans Christian Andersen under the name “Bedtime stories”. It is built as an iPad ebook available for download on Appstore.
Ebook presentation
The collection contains:
- 20 famous stories, among which we can find Thumbelina, The emperor’s new clothes, The ugly duckling, The nightingale
- The little mermaid
- The snow queen
- The shoes of fortune
- The Ice maiden
- What the Moon saw
- The marsh king’s daughter
- A story from the sand dunes.
A full list of stories can be found on the Rborn blog entry.
More classic stories
If you want to read more classic stories to your child, you might wanna take a look at Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm, also developed by Rborn Development. The application’s website is Edu-apps.mobi.
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Enjoy the best Brothers Grimm classical bedtime stories, including “Little red riding hood”, “Cinderella”, “Raspunzel” or “The frog-prince”. 62 stories for 62 wonderful evenings with your children.
iPad ebook available for download on Appstore.
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In this simple, sweet, and very human picture book, Mercer Mayer’s popular Little Critter shows us all the things he can do by himself. He starts by tying his shoes (almost) and continues by pouring his own juice and spilling just a little! The wry illustrations often point to the fact that Little Critter doesn’t do everything perfectly, but he always makes an effort to do the best he can!
Ebook available for download from Appstore
