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Luminosity Mr. Sandman Brings An Otherworldly Beauty To iPad Children's Book
Mr. Sandman is all sorts of pretty, with lush music and interactive features - exactly what you want in an iPad book for kids, right?
Here's a gorgeous-looking kids book, beautifully rendered for the iPad. The iTunes description promises stunning visuals, dark forests, starry skies, and captivating music. There's interactivity of a sort, though it's limited to specific tasks to continue the story, like telling some frogs to go to sleep with a spoken, "Shh!" or scratching an owl's belly.
You can interact with the book in English or French (the developers are based in France), so more than just us English-speakers can participate.
Mr. Sandman is the first app from developer Hokusbookus, but we're really looking forward to more. From the website:At hocusbookus, we create beautiful books to see and touch. We are parents and all of our love goes into creating stories where visuals and sounds perfectly match for the pleasure to see children's smiles.UPDATE: The contest ended a while back, and the company has just updated its website - so go check it out anyway.
Mr. Sandman is $4.99 and available now in the App Store.
Via: AppsPlayground
Rob LeFebvre
Dad. Mac head. Ukulele nerd. Gamer. Rob lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and commutes daily to the intarwebs to edit and write about iOS, Mac, books, and video games. He is currently employed as the editor at 148Apps, the best gosh-darn iPhone site this side of Mars, and contributes freelance to various other sites, including Cult of Mac and VentureBeat. Somehow he still finds time to play in a Disco band, raise two amazing kids, and hang on to his day job.