I recently wrote a story for The Daily Beast on whether Pop-Up books are being killed off by iPads and tablets and their wonderful assortment of beautiful, pop-up-like apps and ebooks. From Peter Rabbit to Alice in Wonderland to A Charlie Brown Christmas, more and more children’s classics are getting digitized but is that a good thing? Interviews with Harvard’s Maria Tatar, illustrator Robert Sabuda and app developers including Josh Koppel from ScrollMotion, and the teams behind the most successful kids apps out there.
Are pop-up books dying? We remember pulling our first paper tab and seeing a book miraculously come to life. But a lot of kids these days are getting that kick on iPads and other fancy tablets. Which makes one wonder if the steady stream of interactive ebooks aimed at kids means that this generation won’t have childhood memories of Pat the Bunny, Where’s Spot, or Peter Rabbit? …
Now, instead of kids ripping out paper tabs, they can happily bash the Queen of Hearts as her court gleefully wobbles under an iPad screen.
Read the full story, Do Tablet Apps and eBooks Spell the End of Pop-Up Books?, over at the Daily Beast. Please do give them the traffic, they were very nice to me.
