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Welcome to the 21st weekly app report, collecting news and product announcements from the members of the Moms With Apps network. http://momswithapps.com/

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https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ipad/

iPad Book Reviews | Kirkus Book Reviews

Season tickets have belonged to Stats' family for a couple of generations, so Stats gets to see a lot of baseball games.
http://www.appolicious.com/tech/articles/10704-best-interactive-ipad-books-of-2011-for-kids-of-all-ages All of these best iPad books for kids use digitization to enhance the reading experience, not divert attention from it.

Best interactive iPad books of 2011 for kids of all ages - iPhone app recommendations - Lisa Caplan | Appolicious ™ iPhone and iPad App Directory

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/42762-the-ipad-meets-the-children-s-book.html On launch day last Saturday, Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads—and users downloaded more than one million apps and more than 250,000 ebooks from the iBookstore. Parents immediately started snapping up picture book apps from Apple's online store. In fact, children's stories held six of the top 10 paid iPad book-app sales spots as of press time.

The iPad Meets the Children's Book

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-20002462-243.html

5 amazing iPad e-books for kids | iPad Atlas - CNET Reviews

If you ask me, the iPad 's prowess as an e-book reader lies not in pulp fiction, but in kids' books. Think about it: the latest Grisham novel is just raw text, which any old Kindle can deliver.
This page is geared towards younger children. I recently added a page of site listings for Free Teen and Young Adult Books Online for older children. http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-books-children

124 Sites For Free Children's Books Online

New York Public Library Card Required for access . Check out and download children's books to read on your computer. http://kids.nypl.org/reading/Childrensebooks.cfm

Read Children's eBooks Online

http://www.magickeys.com/books/ See our new sister site devoted entirely to phonics. All free! A beginning phonics program with over 100 pages, 400 cartoons and click-and-hear words, plus audio narration.

Children's Storybooks Online - Stories for Kids of All Ages

Building an eBook Library

I've just gotten my first iPad in my classroom, and while I've been blogging about their potential for quite a while, I'm truly seeing their amazing possibilities. One area I've found to be especially useful is in create an eBook library. I've talked in the past about writing simple books with your students to help build your library ( Stories in a New York Minute ), what I want to talk about today is creating a digital library. iBooks has the ability to work with ePub files, which means the files can include both images, audio & video embedded in the book. http://teachingall.blogspot.com/2011/12/building-ebook-library.html