For Day 21 of our Advent Calendar, we're taking a rare look at an eBook, and a rather magical story. Let's take a look at "Angel's Great Escape" by Kirstie Rowson and Kristina Litten...

Just a quick note. If anyone's in the market for a Kindle Fire, please please please take a look at this offer where you can save a whopping £30 on a Kindle Fire today by clicking the banner above or by following this link

I don't usually post click-through stuff to Amazon but that's a very good deal for a very good way of delving into the world of E-Books.

Thanks

ReadItDaddy x

Deliah Dusticle, Domestic Goddess!

Jen York contacted us to let us know her self-published E-Book "Delilah Dusticle" is free for the entirety of this weekend on Kindle.


You should also stop by Jen's blog - if for no other reason than to meet The Grumpy Stone, Jen's rather groovy looking writing companion!


Go and grab the book today, free is definitely not a price to be missed!

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner - an e-book 'done properly'

There seems to be a war raging between the luddites and the technocrati and it's a war that seems as odd as any other war. Two sides are gathered, with a fair amount of neutrals in the middle, claiming that their favourite method of enjoying stories is better than the other and will somehow 'win'.

As we know, in a war there are no winners and what this has to do with the #readitmummiesanddaddies2013 campaign is this. Quite simply, there's more than enough room on your shelves and in your tablet / kindle / e-reader for both Print books and E-books.

This week on ReadItDaddy we're going to be focusing on some of the best e-books around and some of the publishers who fully understand the statement topping this article - that 'E' doesn't just stand for 'Electronic' it stands for 'Enhanced'.

We've used Sally Gardner's utterly amazing and mind-bendingly brilliant book "Maggot Moon" as our first example of an e-book that brings more to the table than just the ability to flick through its pages on a tablet or e-reader. Working in conjunction with Sally herself, Hot Key Books have produced something that, at first glance, seems just like an ordinary everyday e-book. Flip your iPad on its side though, read the book in Landscape Mode and things start to happen...

The Maggot Moon introduction in 'Enhanced' mode. Hello Standish!

We start to see Maggot Moon how Sally herself sees the book. You see, Sally is Dyslexic and working with Hot Key Books has developed several rather clever methods to show readers how the book and how text appears to her. 

Great little box-outs and video clips enhance the written text at various points in the story

Here at ReadItDaddy, now we're all e-book empowered, we love finding picture book ideas that cleverly use the functionality of the Kindle / iPad to good effect.

Charles and Rachael Vald's book "Clara's Ugly Monster" is a little treasure, using the touch screen of tablet devices to encourage children to delve into the book and find the 40 hidden sounds that are threaded throughout the story.

It's best demonstrated when handed over to the experts. Here's a great little video of Charlotte (Charles' daughter - not the 'blog boss') and her brother discovering the sounds for themselves:


You can find the book on iTunes here: Clara's Ugly Monster (Free Sample)

iTunes Full Version: Clara's Ugly Monster Enhanced Version (99p)

(It's also on the Kindle Store and available worldwide)