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Wanderful Interactive Storybooks is a developer of interactive storybook apps based on the titles originally published as Living Books by Broderbund Software.
The company was founded in 2010 by Mickey W. Mantle, who oversaw the original Living Books technology development as Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer at Broderbund.
Mantle, CEO of Wanderful, assembled a small team of the original Broderbund programmers to create a new engine that could take the animation, graphics, sound and music from the original Living Books CD-ROMs and play them back at full-screen resolution on the iPad using a touch, rather than a mouse driven interface. Mark Schlichting – creator of the Living Books series – joined the team as Chief Creative Officer and developed touch-driven updates to the original mouse-driven interface.
Through a number of corporate mergers, the publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt had acquired the rights to the Living Books titles and content. Wanderful bought the rights from HMH to republish the original games, as well as new and updated versions, and concurrently partnered with many of the authors of the individual stories that became Living Books.
Wanderful was acquired by the Jordan Freeman Group in January 2023. On May 17, 2023, the acquisition was made official, along with Freeman's announcement of a partnership with Arthur creator, Marc Brown.




Living Books titles


Wanderful has re-released the following Living Books titles for the Android (operating system), iOS and Windows (in order by release date):

Arthur's Teacher Trouble (English and Spanish) by Marc Brown
Little Monster at School (English and Spanish) by Mercer Mayer
The Tortoise and the Hare (English and Spanish) an Aesop fable
Harry and the Haunted House (English and Spanish) by Mark Schlichting
The Berenstain Bears Get In A Fight (English and Spanish) by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Arthur's Birthday (English and Spanish) by Marc Brown
The Berenstain Bears In The Dark (English) by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Ruff's Bone (English and Spanish) By Eli Noyes
The New Kid on the Block (English) by Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by James Stevenson
Dr. Seuss's ABC's (English) by Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (English) by Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham (English) by Dr. Seuss
Sheila Rae, the Brave (English and Spanish) by Kevin Henkes
Stellaluna (English and Portuguese) by Janell Cannon
Just Grandma and Me (English, Japanese and Spanish) by Mercer Mayer
Maggie's Farmyard Adventure (English) by Pat Farrell
Arthur's Computer Adventure (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's Reading Race (English) by Marc Brown
D.W., The Picky Eater (English) by Marc Brown




Additional titles


Wanderful has re-released, under their Wanderful Edutainment banner, the following non-Living Books titles for Windows (in order by release date):

Arthur's 1st Grade (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's 2nd Grade (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's Kindergarten (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's Math Games (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's Pet Chase (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's Preschool (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's Reading Games (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's Sand Castle Contest (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's Thinking Games (English) by Marc Brown
Arthur's Camping Adventure (aka Arthur's Wilderness Rescue) (English) by Marc Brown




Educational Elements


Wanderful has created classroom activity guides for each of the storybook apps.




References






External links


The return of Living Books
Harry And The Haunted House For iOS Gets It Right - David Winograd, Mac Observer
Going Retro: Reading Apps for Real Books (blog post at KQED/MindShift)
Just Wanderful! Living Books Are Back! - The Daring Librarian
Interview with Mark Schlichting

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Wanderful Interactive Storybooks
• Interactive storybook
• Living Books
• Storybook
• Mark Schlichting
• Stellaluna
• Satellite Award for Interactive Media