"Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another..."So begins The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce, an interactive digital narrative based on the award-winning animated short film of the same name. Created by Moonbot Studios the app "blurs the line between picture books and animated film" and adds further fuel to the ongoing debate of what constitutes a book, for the app is not based on a book and has yet to be "in print" (a picture book version is...
Book App Review: The Waste Land
Welcome to Book Patrol's inaugural Book App Review. Here we will sample and review apps created exclusively for books or book-related themes.We kick off the series with a look at T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land for the iPad, a joint production of Faber & Faber and Touch Press.What is arguably the greatest poem of the 20th Century is now infused with the bells and whistles of what will or already has become one of the greatest technologies of the young 21st Century.Think of it as a Wikipedia entry on interactive steroids and then some. Not only do you get the...