What's the No 1 paid iPad app this week? No, it's not Angry Birds.

It's The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore, an interactive
children's story that may well be 'one of the most influential titles of
the early 21st century', according to Saturday's Times.

My wife downloaded this, and it's absolutely enchanting. As the app
reads the story aloud, you tap, pinch and swipe on the accompanying
pictures, and all sorts of delightful things happen as the story comes
to life.

We've spent a happy hour exploring it (it gives you the general idea on
the first couple of pages, but after that it's up to you to find what's
there), and I'm sure there are things still to find, even after we
reread it -  (e.g. try some chords on the 'Pop Goes the Weasel' piano -
it's polyphonic).

We have some grandchildren to show it to (anyway, that's our excuse),
but these aren't obligatory.

I'd like to put Moonbot, the developers, in touch with Rebecca Dautremer
- imagine seeing her 'Alice au Pays des Mervielles' brought to life more
interactively than:-

<URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Locoe4DK4&NR=1>

We've got the Spanish edition, which is lovely. No English edition as
yet, though one is promised for October...

--
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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