Piccolo Picture Books is your perfect digital library for some great interactive storybook apps for kids. It offers a collection of more than 25 top quality and successful books for kids. All books stay true to the original and can be used anytime you and your kids want to read a great story.
Piccolo Picture Books: Black Friday Sale 0.99 USD!
Piccolo Picture Books app is a free bookshelf app that stores all your Piccolo Books in one place... so whenever you are ready for a great reading time with your kids ... just tap on a book! Each Piccolo Book has the“learn-to-read” function with highlighted text to help young readers associate the words they hear with the words they see. In addition, note that all Piccolo books come in 5 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, and Dutch, where the stories are professionally narrated by native speakers and supported with fun sounds and interactive animations.
The bookshelf-app is free to download and includes the free lite version of the popular picture book The Competition. All other available Piccolo Picture Books titles will be clearly visible on a bookstore shelf and users are instantly notified with push technology of new titles, deals and discounts. Purchased books will be on a My Piccolo Picture Books shelf, always available for unlimited reading fun.
Each book is available for download via the bookshelf app for 4.99 USD retail price …
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Fun Educational Apps Interviewed Piccolo books!
Piccolo Picture Books is an imprint of the Dutch publishing house Unieboek | Het Spectrum & Mobile Generation specifically interested in turning successful picture books into digital & interactive content for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Piccolo Picture Books aims to bring children's books to life through interactivity and audio.
Fun Educational Apps had a chance to try several of the Piccolo’s book collection. We liked the high quality of the books and asked Piccolo books:
When did you start turning paper book into digital version ? And what made you decide to do it?
Piccolo Picture Books released their first book apps in August 2010. By turning successful Dutch picture books into apps and Piccolo makes them available to a much broader audience. Many people all over the world can now enjoy these wonderful books. It is important to Piccolo to preserve the reading experience of picture books when adapting it to a digital platform. Books are chosen for their beautiful art and classic stories.
What unique experience does Piccolo Pictures Books offer? What are the specific characteristics of a Piccolo Picture Book?
Each book is available in 5 languages English, French, Spanish, German, and Dutch.
Parents can read to their children in the traditional manner. Children can use the read-aloud function and read by themselves. When using the “learn-to-read” function, the highlighted text helps beginning readers associate the words they hear with the words they see.
The stories are professionally narrated and supported (as opposed to dominated) by fun sounds and interactive animations.
Do you think digital and interactive books change the way kids read and interact with books?
Yes, of course. A book app, or any kind of digital book, is different from a traditional picture book. We've all heard the funny anecdotes of kids now tapping and swiping regular books and TV screens; they are learning so quickly! One way that Piccolo Picture Books can change the way a kid reads is the choice in 5 different languages for each book. A child, as well as an adult, can familiarize themselves with a foreign language and learn to read and understand it. This would not be possible with a traditional picture book, often times the book is not even available in all these languages.
What is your vision for the future?
More digital books and also more Piccolo Picture Books. More bookshelf-apps with in-app books to purchase or subscription-based. And more platforms especially for digital books such as the new Nook and Kindle Fire.
We hope you will enjoy the experience. To discover all Piccolo Books that are available, download now and browse around the app. Preview the ones you like and buy while in sale!
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