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Reveling in Rhyme | Touch and Go
One of the universally dreaded assignments in my high school’s third-year English curriculum was the memorization of a monologue, soliloquy, or sonnet written by William Shakespeare. To this day, I can...
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Tweets, Drums, and Warbles: A Digital Field Guide to North American Birds |...
The lite version of this app includes 70 species of North American birds—more than enough to convince samplers to purchase the complete version. For many summers I’ve been wondering what kind of owl is...
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A Starter Collection of Apps for the PreSchool Set | Touch and Go
As a follow up to Lauren Barack’s article in the July issue of School Library Journal, “The Early Bird: How Sesame Workshop Is Adapting Its Revolutionary Educational Content for Devices,” we’ve...
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Best of Apps & Enhanced Books | August 2013
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Touch Press/Deutsche Grammophon. 2013. iOS, requires 6.0 for the Free (Lite) or iPad $13.99 versions 1.0.1. Compatible with the iPhone 4 or above, optimized for iPhone 5....
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A Brace of Apps | Touch and Go
What child can resist a book or app about animals? Incorporating vocabulary-rich texts and gentle environmental lessons, these apps will also find favor with teachers and parents. In a reverse...
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The Pigeon Is Back! | Touch and Go
Don’t Let the Pigeon Run this App! was the first app featuring Willems’s earnest and exuberant Pigeon. In that production, viewers had both storytelling input and an opportunity to draw the Pigeon,...
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‘War Horse’: Novel, Play, Film, and App | Touch and Go
Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, the story of a young man reunited with his beloved horse on the battlefields of World War I, was first published as a children’s book in 1982, later became a play, and...
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A Summer App Recap | Touch and Go
For those of you who have been sitting under a shade tree or on a beach these past two months—and we hope that’s most of you—we’re offering a recap of app reviews published over the summer. The list...
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Best of Apps & Enhanced Books | September 2013
National Geographic Birds: Field Guide to North America. National Geographic/IXONOS. 2012. iOS, requires 5.0 or later. Version 3.3. $9.99. Gr 4 Up-No longer must fledgling birders juggle a field...
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Cells and Matter, A Digital Look | Touch and Go
Along with the Common Core, many state standards ask that educators incorporate multimodal resources into their lesson plans. As time goes on, more and more quality apps are to available that meet that...
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Charlie Brown, ‘Icky Mr Fox,’ and ‘The Lost Song’| Touch and Go
There must be a collective noun for an assortment of apps. If not, we need to coin one. How else to describe this week’s selections, which include a beloved comic strip character, a mischievous critter...
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Touch Press Adds Liszt to Their List | Touch and Go
If you have been following the Touch Press output along with us, you won’t be surprised to learn that they have recently released another exploration of a musical masterpiece. In addition to...
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Best of Apps & Enhanced Books | October 2013
Pigeon Presents…Mo on the Go! (Disney Publishing Worldwide) © Willems. Matter. Kids Discover. 2013. iOS, requires 5.0 or later. Version 1.0. $3.99. Gr 5-8–Another high-quality nonfiction offering from...
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Traveling Back in Time: Ancient Civilizations | Touch and Go
Many students begin learning about ancient civilizations around sixth grade, within the target audience for the productions reviewed here. Ancient Egypt and Greece are also high-interest topics for...
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A ‘Midnight Feast’ In a Not-Too-Distant Future? | Touch and Go
Slap Happy Larry, the developers of The Artifacts, have created another story for tweens and teens in Midnight Feast. For teachers looking to share and discuss a short story in this medium with...
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Disney Animated | Touch and Go
While many of the discussions in Disney Animated are firmly rooted in the art and technical aspects of animation, others point to what goes into creating a well-crafted story in any medium, such as...
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Confetti Flies and Critters Glide in Boynton’s ‘But Not the Hippopotamus’|...
A new app by Sandra Boynton is always cause for celebration. Interior screen ‘But Not the Hippopotamus’ (Loud Crow) Boynton A favorite Sandra Boynton tale But Not the Hippopotamus (Loud Crow...
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Apps for the Halloween Season | Touch and Go
It’s the season and we’re adding to the list of Halloween apps we reviewed last year, which included classic (Frankenstein) and contemporary (Go Away, Big Green Monster!) stories, as well as a bit of...
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Caught in a Labyrinth: ‘Roxie’s Puzzle Adventure’| Touch and Go
Roxie Munro is the prolific author of titles ranging from the “Inside-Outside” series on cities to books on creatures: dinosaurs, snakes, and small builders of the insect world. One of her...
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‘Niko and the Sword of Light’: A Graphic Novel in an App | Touch and Go
A sword-wielding boy on a quest facing monstrous obstacles against a dramatic landscape–what more could fans of graphic novels and adventure stories ask for? ‘Niko and the Sword of Light’ delivers all...
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