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"[T[his app is a lot of fun and it is kidappropriate. Think of it as a multiple page activity book that bothyou and the kids can have a lot of fun."--GeekDad"It's hours of fun... A really successful example of anexperience based on a book that includes things neither a printbook nor an e-book could do.'--Publishers Weekly"[F]or grown-ups who want to channel their inner-children duringthe morning commute by letting the creativity ooze from theirapp-enabled devices.... Poking holes through drawings, enhancingphotos of yourself, and scribbling like a three-year-old are just afew of the ways the app can bring a few moments of childish delightto the user."--Good E-Reader"Flip through the app to do things like poke your screen as manytimes as you want, scribble on your photos, add your fingerprints,and follow the instructions as rigidly or as loosely as you'dlike.Trust me on this -- it's a GREAT stress reliever. You've got totry it!"--MyGloss.comJust did a face-plant against the wall of writer's block?Terrified by a blank screen? Looking for a new creative outlet?Lacking artistic inspiration? Just plain old bored? You've foundthe right app.With Wreck This App, you'll tap into your creative side in anentirely new way: by exploring your best mess-making anddestructive abilities. Guided by more than 50 prompts and using aspectrum of drawing tools, you can tap "holes" through the screen,"Drip" different inks, and then smear them all together, defaceyour least favorite picture of yourself, scribble furiously, coloroutside of the lines! And when you've wrecked your app, you canpost evidence of your creative destruction on Facebook orFlickr!Based on the world-wide and phenomenally successful book WreckThis Journal by author and illustrator Keri Smith, Wreck This Appbrings destructive creativity right to your fingertips. Let thewrecking begin!

Barbie™ brings storytime to life with theBarbie™ Princess Charm School app! This Little Golden Book appfeatures interactive illustrations and activities that are full ofmagical animation and sparkling surprises!- Read Barbie™ Princess Charm School story or have it read tothem. (Parents can also record their own custom narration!)- Play hide & seek challenges that reward readingcomprehension with sparkling Barbie™ stickers.- Use their stickers to create a Barbie™ storybook scene with achoice of stylish background.With the Barbie™ Princess Charm School app, girls can tap,swipe, read, and play with their favorite fashionista, Barbie™.

** Users: If you are experiencing issues withthe app, see the tips and FAQ at the end of this description forhelp with scanning images from the book.** The official companion app for Marisha Pessl’s new novel,NIGHT FILM **** Scan select images in NIGHT FILM with the Decoder app tounlock exclusive multimedia content **** Works with any version of the book -- both print and eBook**Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, NIGHT FILM is asuperb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling authorof the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.With the special companion app, you can continue the NIGHT FILMexperience while reading the book. Interactive touch points buriedthroughout the text of the book will unlock extra content on yourAndroid device. These hidden Easter eggs include:• Exclusive audio featuring characters from the book• An original unpublished short story from the world of Night Film,"The Personal Diary of Miss Lulu Swallow"• Image slideshowsTips and Troubleshooting1. How to use the app:• Install the Night Film Decoder app on your device.• Search for the spray-painted bird image in select illustrationsthroughout NIGHT FILM. When you see it, launch the app on yourdevice and scan the illustration with the rear-facing camera onyour device until a Play button appears on the screen. Hint: Notevery one hides a secret.• Press the Play button and enjoy.2. Tips for Issues with Image Scanning• Make sure you scan a large portion of the image, not just thespray-painted bird image• The app only works with images that include the spray-paintedbird icon• Sometimes the app won’t recognize an image until it is in focus.Give your camera a second to focus on the image. You can alsodouble tap your camera screen to help it adjust its focuscontrols.• If you are having trouble getting the app to recognize an image,try moving your device closer or further away from it until you seethe red play button.3. App Support• If you experience any problems with the Night Film Decoder app,please e-mail us at [email protected]

For fans of the bestselling House of Nightseries, the Wisdom of the House of Night Oracle Cards provides aninteractive experience with the vampyre Goddess Nyx. Use this appto summon Nyx and receive her guidance, just like Zoey Redbird andher fellow fledglings!To begin, simply ask Nyx a question: What should I do in thissituation? What is going on with my relationship? What will resultfrom my next action? Then make a selection from the fiftygorgeously illustrated cards. Many of the cards are based oncharacters from the House of Night, and each one represents asymbolic message for you.With this oracle card app you can:- Give readings anywhere, anytime on your mobile device (smartphone or tablet)- Perform simple one-card readings for any question- Perform two-card readings for relationship questions- Perform three-card readings for insight into your past, present,and future- Review the entire deck in Browse mode- Save your readings so that you can review them later- Email your reading to a friend, or post it directly toFacebookThe Wisdom of the House of Night Oracle Cards is an originaldivination system, created by P. C. Cast and oracle expert ColetteBaron-Reid. It draws inspiration from the Tarot, Norse runes, andthe I Ching, but no special expertise is required to use thesecards. The app takes you through each step, so that you canimmediately conduct oracle readings for yourself and others.Consider this oracle to be a gift directly from Nyx; use it to tapinto your intuition and find the confidence to make powerfuldecisions about your life!About the AuthorsP. C. Cast is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestsellingfantasy and paranormal romance author and cocreator with herdaughter, Kristin Cast, of the bestselling House of Night series.She lives in Oklahoma.Colette Baron-Reid is an intuitive counselor, motivationalspeaker, and the bestselling author of several books and oracledecks, including Wisdom of the Hidden Realms and Wisdom of Avalon.She lives in New Hampshire.Illustrations by Jena DellaGrottaglia of Duiwaigh, Inc.

Developed by bestselling author and notedzombieologist, Max Brooks, the Zombie Survival Guide Scanner app isthe ideal zombie detector tool. As we all know, the world we livein has become a scary place, and the global increase in zombieattacks is of major cause for alarm. Use the scanner to analyzefriends and neighbors—and even yourself—and determine the level ofinfection. Use the app’s sharing functionality to spread the wordabout your infected friend’s recent fall to the zombie scourge,warn others by emailing images or posting images of your infectedfriend to Facebook, and join the fight in keeping the world safe.Don’t be foolish with your most precious asset—life. Hordes ofzombies may be stalking you right now without you even knowing it.The Zombie Survival Guide Scanner app is your first line of defensein an undead world.The undead surround us. Infection rates are growingexponentially. How can you be sure who’s a zombie before they tryto bite?An unscanned friend is a potential zombie.“Fans of Max Brooks's terrific zombie books . . . will enjoythis.”—Boing Boing“The zombie apocalypse is coming, but there’s no need to worrybecause there’s always a handy app to get you through the drama ofit all.”—MacLife.com“Please spread the word about this. . . . Finally, we havesomething that could save millions of lives.” —SliceofSciFi.comThe New York Times bestselling author of The Zombie Survival Guideand World War Z, Max Brooks has been called “the Studs Terkel ofzombie journalism.” He lives in New York City but is ready to moveto a more remote and defensible location at a moment’s notice. MaxBrooks’s The Zombie Survival Guide formed the core of the world’scivilian survival manuals during the Zombie War. Mr. Brookssubsequently spent years traveling to every part of the globe inorder to conduct the face-to-face interviews that have beenincorporated into World War Z: An Oral History of the ZombieWar.

From the creator of Wreck This App and ThisIsNot an App comes a whole new imaginative app experience, onethatencourages you to use your phone or tablet to actuallyinteractmore with the world around you.With The Pocket Scavenger app, you'll be asked to findandphotograph a spectrum of quirky items: something that isminiature,a stain that is green, something from the year you wereborn, aused envelope, and more. Once your quarry is in site, youcanchoose to be assigned an alteration dictated solely bychance:create a funny character, conceal it, add a familymember,photograph it at night, make it "pretty," and so on.Aftercompleting a scavenge you can upload it to the map and seewhatscavenges are going on around you. You can also shareyourscavenges through Twitter and Facebook and before embarking onanew hunt.By incorporating chance into creativity, you'll be forced outofhabitual ways of thinking or acting, discover new connections,andinteract with the world around you in ways you might nothaveimagined before.NOTE: In order to place your scavenges on the map forFellowScavengers to see you will need to be signed in toTwitter.

If this is not an app, then what is it?WithThis Is Not an App, you’ll transform your tablet or phone intoaplace to stash secrets, a way to procrastinate, a spot torecorddreams and memories, a living picture frame, a souvenir oftheworld, and more. Discover a world of possibility right atyourfingertips, using fun drawing tools and over 50 ideas toinspireyour creative process.From the creators of Wreck This App comes animaginativeexploration into all the different things an app can be.DailyCandy calls the app “…a genius application from themind-bendingteam behind cult-loved alterna-journal This Is Not aBook.” Basedon the idiosyncratic favorite by author and illustratorKeri Smith,This Is Not an App “…offers perhaps that most elusivething: achance to be creative,” according to Wired Insider.

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Discover and listen to popular audiobooks with Volumes fromPenguinRandom House Audio. Through our easy-to-use search, Volumesallowsyou to find your favorite authors and also sample audiobooksfrom avariety of genres, such as fiction, mystery, thriller,sci-fi,history, children's, and classics, with the option topurchasethrough Google Play. Optimized for Android, Volumesprovides youwith a simple interface utilizing your device'sNotification Centerfor quick player control.

Celebrate the 75th anniversary of this classic children’s bookwithan award-winning app that is perfect for little fingers andbigimaginations! Designed especially for toddlers andpreschoolers,the app features a Play mode where kids can feed andinteract withBunny. Read mode features 14 interactive scenes yourkids can tap,swipe, and explore. 

Your kids will giggle withdelight as theyplay hide and seek with Bunny, pop bubbles in thebathtub, makemusic in the kitchen, catch butterflies in the garden,and muchmore.



 Packed with so much to see and do, and so manyadorablesurprises, your kids will want to play with each page againandagain!



 Based on the beloved book by DorothyKunhardt.



SPECIAL FEATURES: — Play with Bunny as an interactivepet 
—14interactive scenes for kids to explore 

—Immersive musicandplayful sound effects 



ABOUT PAT THE BUNNY: 

pat the bunnybyDorothy Kunhardt has been known as baby’s first gift for over70years. Originally published in 1940, pat the bunny was thefirstinteractive book of its kind and a pioneer in babydevelopment.Since then, thanks to Dorothy’s daughter, EdithKunhardt, pat thebunny has expanded to include new and wonderfulcharacters andstories that will be entertaining children forgenerations to come.

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