Yes, there is more! And for those of you who thought 'where oh where is that follow up of hers?', I can now (finally) soothe your curiosity:
Meet my good old friend...
Born: on the island of Aruba in 2005
Parents: Daniëlle Schothorst and Liliana Erasmus
Role: main character
Genre: picture book
Themes: magic, adventure, friendship (autism)
Language: Papiamento and Dutch
Second home: The Netherlands since 2007
Accomplishments: Aruba's 1st Book Festival Gift 2005, Reading Lion Edition (The Netherlands)
In 2010: traveling worldwide as an iPad app for iBookkids in Dutch, English, French and a spokesperson for Autism.
Now that you know who I'm talking about, we can move on to the different aspects of this incredible project.
We - yes, we're a team of several artists working together to make one application come true. We have been sharing ideas, thoughts, files, expertise... for some months now and I'm still very impressed with the possibilities and potentials the time we're living in is offering us. We can create more than a book; the future of reading; by joining forces from anywhere in the world with the power of the Internet! Okay, let me not get too carried away.
I don't know what will happen to us - not in the near, not in the far, far future - but, we're here and we're creating and sharing miracles together. That's what humans do, don't they? I love to write and that will not change. I'm just adding new experiences to the art of writing and to reading altogether. A story will remain a story, but how the story will look like, that's (no, not a different story) where we are right now. Will the book become an app? Will the book be called an app?
Going through the different stages of creating new reading material, as a modern writer, I love the challenge of thinking 4D, because that's what I'm experiencing: the story is the first layer, then you have the illustrations layer, graphic/product design layer, animations, voice recordings, sound effects, translations... And yes, I need to be involved in the whole process. Why?
Because when I create a book, a character, a world, a story, I write with all I have. The reader reads the book and loves or hates it. When you're making an app, it's book plus audio plus animations plus everything that needs to be done to make the book interactive and appealing to the modern reader, never to forget worthy. And there you have my reason to undergo this metamorphosis: the reader, always the reader (or why publish at all) should get it all, and the best of it all, whether it's a book or an app - leaving us, writers, illustrators, designers, hopeful, creative and willing to join forces for a better future.
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