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Flips for DS: a fantastic Christmas gift
Flips, a new book range created for the Nintendo DS was officially released last week. FLIPS has been designed to give children a new way to read their favourite books. Nearly 2 million 8-11 year-olds in the UK own an NDS console.
Flips uses the DS touch screen and stylus to enable children to read and interact by combining the world of storytelling with quizzes and references to characters, encouraging greater concentration and incentive to finish every chapter. Within the books, links appear to give the reader a unique way of interacting with the story and enhancing their experience.
Each games cartridge includes six to eight books by a popular children’s author. The first four titles will feature author Cathy Cassidy, the Artemis Foul books and Too Ghoul for Cool series. Also to be transformed into digital editions is Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree series, loved by children since they were written in the 1930s and 1940s.
“At Egmont we are passionate about bringing stories to life for children, so the development of new platforms for reading are incredibly exciting for us. We are proud to be at the heart of this innovation and thrilled to be a part of this first collection bringing authors such as Enid Blyton to the digital world, and encouraging more children to take up reading for pleasure rather than seeing it purely as part of their homework,” said Cally Poplak, director at Egmont Press.
Each title is priced at £24.99, which works out at around £4 per book.
Posted: December 14th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Eoin Colfer
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