Happy Easter from all of us at Jump Into a Book!
It’s Easter and Little Critter is ready to celebrate! Join Little Critter and his family as they enjoy traditional Easter activities. Plus, go on your very own Easter egg hunt to find 100 eggs hidden throughout this charming story. Can you find all 100? Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter stories, which address all the major issues of growing up, are perennial favorites of parents and children.
OceanHouse Media has this wonderful and festive ebook for kids available for only .99. Perfect for a quiet read in the car on the way to Grandma’s house :) New features only available in this interactive omBook include professional narration, background audio and enlarged artwork for each scene.
To promote reading in young children, individual words are highlighted as the story is read and words zoom up when pictures are touched. By combining the original text and artwork of author Mercer Mayer with features that entertain and promote reading, this omBook appeals to readers of all ages.
Recommended Ages: 2 – 5
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We love these free Little Critter coloring pages!
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And, on the first day, the Book World was created. The Great American Writers flocked to the new world and endlessly wrote to express themselves. The Prolific Readers soon came in droves to read and decipher what the Great American Writers had to say, and before long, the Guardian Agents arrived too and sold the Great American Writers profound works en masse to the Prodigious Publishers. In due course, everyone in this strange new world flourished.
Then on the second day, the Aspiring Writer honed his craft and sought to be accepted in the new world too, so that his own literary work would be read and relished by many. But, legions of these new Aspiring American Writers were turned away and were left standing rejected at the walls of the Book World, denounced by the Guardian Agents, who also left some of them wounded and discarded in a pile of slush.
By the third day, the Bureau of Labor Statics reported the median income for The Great American Writer in the Book World was $55,420 per year or $26.64 per hour. When the Aspiring Writer read this report, he fell to his knees and cried, because he had dreamt of fame and fortune, and the hopes of staking a claim in this strange, new world where so many early settlers were striking it rich. But still, the Aspiring Writer continued to write because it had become his life’s aspiration to be accepted into the Book World, for after all, writing was all he ever wanted to do–even if it meant he would be scantily paid once he got there.
By the fourth day, the Aspiring Writer rolled up his sleeves and searched high and low for a Guardian Agent to represent his work to The Prodigious Publishers that roamed the Book World. At the entrance gate, the Guardian Agents stopped him from entering and formally denounced and rejected the Aspiring Writer, while others from his literary community were left wounded and discarded in a pile of slush, never to be heard from again. Dejected and denounced, the Aspiring Writer fell to his knees again and cried in hopelessness and desperation. Everything became meaningless outside the Book World where the land was dark and bleak and without form and meaning.
On the fifth day, the Aspiring Writers revolted and decided to publish their own books, while the notable Great American Writers with their Guardian Agents and Prodigious Publishers laughed at them and called the self-published authors “Vain.”
By the sixth day the Prolific Readers began to find what the Aspiring Writers wrote, and the Guardian Agents and the Prodigious Publishers fell to their knees and cried.
And on the seventh day, the God of Books, a great force in all the Earth called, Amazon, spoke to the Aspiring Writers and said, “Take Control with Independent Publishing. With Amazon’s independent publishing services you can reach millions of readers worldwide and keep control of your work. It’s fast and easy to publish your print book with CreateSpace, your digital book with Kindle Direct Publishing and create an audiobook with ACX. “And, a whole new world was created.
Tonia Allen Gould is a soon-to-be published author. Her children’s picture book, Samuel T. Moore of Corte Magore releases on iTunes on 7/1/13. Tonia’s animated book with professional voice and an original musical score is being published by Skies America Publishing Company. While her book is not self-published, and Tonia is grateful she didn’t have to go it alone, the journey to publication wasn’t easy, and you’ll oftentimes find Tonia talking a bit about that.
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Continuing the series about Alternate Publishing. This is 4 of 8.
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uTales: Digital Picture Book Publishing Goes Global
Guest Post by Jean Helprin Diehl
In December 2010, my good friend Kathryn Freeman received an invite out of the blue to publish digital picture books through a new site, uTales.com. Nils von Heijne, the company’s creator, liked what he’d seen of her paintings and illustrations online. He included a code for logging on to the Beta version of uTales to check it out, plus three additional invites for colleagues. Katie and I are longtime collaborators, so she sent one to me.
Why not, we decided. We resurrected a project we’d always loved, which had garnered interest from publishers but no contract. By November 2011 we’d published this title, a href=”http://utales.com/books/palomas-pie”>Paloma’s Pie
, and started work on an interactive book we created just for uTales,
What Color is Fred The start-up venture we’d never heard of before had launched as an Apple app for iPad, iPhone and PC, and a respected editor from the world of traditional children’s book publishing, Emma Dryden, had joined the company to provide editorial oversight and approve books for publication. uTales customers could subscribe or purchase single titles from a library of more than 150 books – a number now nearer 200 – the work of writers and illustrators from around the globe.
See the Books on UTales:
(Note that the following links are to book previews of the first 8 pages – it’s impossible to access entire books without purchasing them:)
There are plenty of apps available for children’s books these days. uTales appears to have distinguished itself in at least three ways, so far.
- First, its international focus and its plans to publish books in multiple languages; English came first, Swedish is next (Nils is Swedish and the company has offices in Sweden and New York).
- Second, uTales’ software enables authors and illustrators to collaborate remotely on a manuscript from anywhere on the globe that has an Internet connection.
- Finally, one of the compa
WE ARE SEVEN STRANGERS
NO ONE CAN FIND US
SIX THINK THE CURE WILL WORK
ONLY I KNOW THE TRUTH
THIS PLACE WILL DESTROY US
When Will Besting approaches Fort Eden for the first time, he knows something isn’t right. With more terrifying secrets at every turn he discovers a hidden fear deep inside himself, a dark mystery a thousand years in the making, and the unexpected girl of his dreams. But can he save everyone from the dangers of Fort Eden before it’s too late?
Bestselling author Patrick Carman’s DARK EDEN is not only a psychological thrill ride of a book, but also an app– a 14 episode experience (the first of which is free) with maps, videos, audio diaries, and journal entries that tell the story. The book and the app truly go hand-in-hand, and if even that’s not enough for you… there’s more!
Take THE FEAR TEST, which will show you your darkest fears… and may (warning!) scare you a little in the process, check out the Facebook DARK EDEN fan site for updates. Join us in Dark Eden… where fear is the cure.
Dark Eden is available in bookstores now (what a great publication date– 11.1.11!).
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You could certainly see your expertise within the
work you write. The arena hopes for more passionate writers like you who are not afraid to say how they believe.
All the time go after your heart.
Thank you for such lovely sentiments. I should say that I have nothing against agents and publishers! I’m just really glad to see unknown, unrepresented authors taking their destinies in their own hands.