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In 1991, Broderbund made the first of its two great contributions to the history of CD-ROM publishing by releasing, as the inaugural title in its children's software arm, Living Books: One of the first CD-ROMs ever, it was an interactive reading primer called Just Grandma and Me. "Living Books was our bet on CD-ROM as a delivery vehicle," says ...
Such stories are usually published as software on CD-ROMs. They have also been referred to as computer books [1], picture book programs, [1] books-on-disk, [2] talking books, [3] [4] or living books. [4] This software is targeted at young readers (usually kindergarten to second grade) for educational purposes.
Mark Schlichting (born March 17, 1948) is a publisher, author, and digital pioneer of children's multimedia and interactive design software. He is best known as the creator and subsequent Design and Art Director of Broderbund's Living Books series including the original 1994 Living Books PC game Harry and the Haunted House, one of the first lines of children's interactive book software on CD ...
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Living Books series: 1992–1998 Mac, Win A series of edutainment titles based on popular children's books [7] Lode Runner: 1983 AppII, ATR, BBC, C64, CPC, IBM PC (self-booting disk), iOS, Lynx, Mac, NES, PS1, PSN, SG1K, SNES, VIC20, Win, XBLA, ZX Puzzle-platform game Logical Journey of the Zoombinis: 1996 Mac, Win
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.
In the 1995 CD-ROM game by Living Books, Ichabod and Izzy appear on every page and they find out more things that also begin with each letter. This book has an iOS and Android app by Oceanhouse Media. An augmented reality app version of the book was created by Sugar Creative. [9]
Discis Books is a series of Interactive storybook by Discis Knowledge Research. [ 4 ] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "interactive storybooks" like Living Books ' Harry and the Haunted House series promoted "less reading comprehension in kids" than "moderately interactive, more fact-oriented" CD-ROMs like Discis Books’ Thomas’ Snowsuit .