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Posted by Tom on Apr 02, 2012
The Three Little Pigs is App of the Week for the Apps for Children with Special Needs series on Blip TV.
“Absolutely a brilliant, brilliant book … I can’t say enough good things about it”.
Watch the video review below or on Blip TV’s website here.
Posted by Tom on Mar 21, 2012
Our Cinderella app has been ranked first in a list by PadGadget of the Top Ten iPad Books for Kids. In their review, PadGadget write:
“Nosy Crow’s reinvention of Cinderella breaks free from Disney’s rigid appropriation of the fairy tale chargirl. This stellar app features colorful illustrations and clever activities on every page.”
Posted by Tom on Jan 30, 2012
Cinderella has received a great review in a USA Today piece, “Five amazing apps for kids”.
Jinny Gudmundsen writes:
“This modern rendition of the classic fairytale demonstrates just how far children’s book apps have evolved […] it is the playfulness within the story that makes it delightful […] Reading this fairytale is a charming experience filled with wonder.”
You can read the full review here.
Posted by Tom on Jan 23, 2012
Mega Mash-Up: Romans v Dinosaurs on Mars, the first in the series by Nikalas Catlow and Tim Wesson, has been included in TESCO Kids’ Book Club’s A Year in Books.
Cathy Olmedillas, founder of Anorak Magazine, writes:
“You can tell the authors have had a great time making this book because it is really funny. What I also love about it is that it is interactive so the readers can add their own drawings and finish chapters. They can colour it in if they like, and to me, that’s lovely because it’s not only fun but it also extends the life of the book.”
Posted by Tom on Jan 16, 2012
It’s not out until April, but The Secret Hen House Theatre, by debut novelist Helen Peters, has had its first review.
Writing for Ham & High, Kate Agnew calls the book:
“absolutely delightful … Astonishingly accomplished for a first novel, it is on one level an engaging story about a group of children determinedly staging a play in a disused old henhouse and, on another, a warm-hearted and compassionate account of a family coming to terms with loss. I enjoyed the proof so much that I read it in two sittings”
Posted by Tom on Jan 03, 2012
Pip and Posy: The Super Scooter has been reviewed in The Wall Street Journal:
“In Axel Scheffler’s sweet story, a rabbit named Pip is zipping through the park on his scooter when he meets his mouse friend, Posy, who wants to try Pip’s scooter. The distress we see on Pip’s face will resonate with any child who has ever been in his position: Your friend may really like your toy, but you really, really don’t want her to take it! … The final scenes of reconciliation bring these stressful events to a gentle, age-appropriate conclusion.”
Posted by Tom on Jan 01, 2012
The Three Little Pigs, Nosy Crow’s first app, has been named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Kids’ Book Apps of 2011.
In their original review, Kirkus wrote:
“This engaging and versatile app is equally suited to single or collective viewing. It amply shows that this old dog—er, pig—can still learn new tricks”
Posted by Tom on Dec 21, 2011
We’ve been incredibly pleased with the coverage Just Right has received in Christmas round-ups.
The Scotsman writes:
“A heartwarming Christmas story […] The text has some repeated phrases with which children will be joining in by the end. The illustrations by Rosalind Beardshaw create a warm glow and have a fairy-tale quality to them. I especially love the final double-page spread which sees the givers, the recipients and all the soft red Chrismassy presents skating on the pond.”
Nicolette Jones writes for The Sunday Times
“A cheerful wintry tale with wide appeal in which a piece of red material makes Christmas presents for everyone from a princess to a mouse.”
In the The Sunday Telegraph, Dinah Hall writes:
“It’s hard to find a Christmas book that’s about giving without coming across all preachy (you can’t fool kids: Christmas is about receiving) but Just Right by Birdie Black and Rosalind Beardshaw delivers a warm glow with its waste-not-want-not message. The story follows a roll of cloth – “so red and soft and Christmassy” – as it makes a cloak for a princess with the leftover scraps passing down a human/animal hierarchy until it becomes a scarf for a mouse.”
And finally, Stephen Romei for The Australian writes:
“This vibrant English picture book was my pick of the bunch […] It’s Christmas Eve in a wintry kingdom and the king, strolling in the market, buys a beautiful roll of red cloth that’s ‘just right for a grand cloak for the princess’. The princess gets her lovely cloak but there’s lots of cloth left over, which is chucked out and found by a kitchen maid, who thinks the offcuts will make a perfect jacket for her mother. And so it goes, with various people and creatures delightedly picking up other’s scraps, until the end of the chain when a little mouse receives a snazzy red scarf from his mum. Everyone is happy and it’s ‘just how Christmas should feel’.”
Posted by Tom on Dec 01, 2011
Twelve Minutes to Midnight has been included in The Bookseller’s February Children’s Previews.
Fiona Noble writes:
“Really pacey historical thriller with a great sense of eerie Victorian atmosphere.”
Twelve Minutes to Midnight is published on February 2nd and you can pre-order it here.
