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The SpotlightDecember 2011 - Immedium
1. News
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Take a swipe (sale priced at $1.99) at the digital versions of
- Timmy and Tammy's Train of Thought
- Sid the Squid: and the Search for the Perfect Job
- The Year of the Rabbit: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac
These versions are displayed in Apple's "fixed-layout" format, which is ideal for children's picture books. These also feature a "film strip" table of contents at the bottom of the screen, where you can touch the page you want to skip to.
The high resolution illustrations look great on the iPad, and we have more titles in the pipeline.
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Another wave of books are coming this month on iVerse's popular Comics+ reader (http://comicspl.us). - The Woollyhoodwinks
- The Adventures of WonderBaby
- Julie Black Belt and more
Download the free Apple iTunes app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comics/id323397665) to read them on iOS devices. Search by "Publisher" under "Immedium".
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Plus, get ready for our first interactive Apple app:
Billie the Unicorn!
- www.billietheunicorn.com
- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mobad-Media/166018081737
Produced with Mobad Media, the quest of Billie and her cousins Rhubarb and Smudge enliven your iPad like never before. Featuring narration, word by word reading, interactive animation, movable drawings with sound effects, and hidden surprises, this is truly a book come to life!
It will launch on iTunes imminently, so watch out!
2. REVIEWS
The Octonauts & the Sea of Shade
978-1-59702-010-7, $15.95
"One of the things that attracts me to picture books is the artwork. These days illustrators are so creative, coming up with so many different ways to create illustrations that are unique and interesting, beautiful and amusing. Meomi creates wonderful illustrations that are kooky and full of details, which is one of the reasons why I like their books so much. I also think their characters are charming, and the adventures that they have are delightfully odd…
In this delightful Octonauts title, children are once again able to take a unique journey with Meomi's intrepid animal characters who take readers to strange, often beautiful, and sometimes frightening places. With incredibly detailed illustrations full of bizarre and wonderful characters, this book is sure to appeal to a wide variety of readers."
- Through the Looking Glass Book Review
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Sora and the Cloud
978-1-59702-027-5, $15.95
"A cloud carries a delighted lad over a city and an amusement park, past kites and fireworks, then on to dreams.
A fearless climber since toddlerdom, young Sora (Japanese for "Sky") takes on a tree one day and finds a smiling, pink-cheeked cloud in the branches. Clambering aboard, he floats over streets and other sights before drifting off to sleep-dreaming of puddles as the cloud floats through a rain shower and of digging in sand after a seagull's cry-and then gently coming back to Earth. Adding Japanese decorations to kites and other details, plus occasional touches of subtle humor (when Sora looks down at a busy playground his "Look! Ants!" is not a figure of speech), Hoshino illustrates this idyll with delicately colored paper-collage and paint scenes featuring semitransparent figures in harmonious compositions. Likewise, her poetic narrative ("From way, waaay, waaaay up in the sky, / fireworks whisper like the soft pitter-pattering of your heart") is not only paralleled by a Japanese translation but extended by Japanese exclamations in the pictures and explanatory notes at the end.
An airy flight of imagination, bi-cultural as well as bilingual."
- Kirkus Reviews
3. EVENTS
DECEMBER
JANUARY 2012
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Thank you for your support this year - we'll have more exciting news in 2012!
May you write another enjoyable chapter in your lives this holiday season.
Immedium
P.O. Box 31846
San Francisco, CA 94131
orders@immedium.com
Immedium, Inc. inspires a world of imagination, and creates entertaining books that have multi-dimensional appeal. Based in San Francisco, CA, Immedium sits on the Pacific Rim, a vibrant intersection for crossover cultural trends from Asia and America. Embracing an increasingly diverse and "multimedia" world, Immedium publishes titles ranging from eye-catching children's books and contemporary non-fiction to commentaries on art and popular culture. Visit us at www.immedium.com.