App: Just Grandma & Me – Original m
Developer: Wanderful, Inc.
Genres: Education, Entertainment

• The original Living Books interactive animated storybook application
• Based upon Mercer Mayer's famous children's storybook "Just Grandma and Me"
• Children don't just read the Wanderful interactive storybooks.  They live them!
• A fully interactive storybook for young and emerging readers completely localized in English, Spanish, and also in Italian as an In-App purchase

Did you ever wish you could step into the middle of  your favorite storybook?  Now, with Wanderful's interactive storybooks, your children can.  In Just Grandma and Me, lively animation, sound effects, talking characters and music all work together to make the story come to life.  In addition, background sounds and continuing animation create a sense of reality.  You can almost feel the sand in your shoes!

Exploring the text as well as the pictures, children soon learn words, phrases and complete sentences.  Rather than being passive listeners, they be come active participants.  Wanderful's animated storybooks make reading an adventure.

In this endearing story, Little Critter and his Grandma take the bus to the beach, where they have a series of adventures.  Little Critter takes a ride on the wind-blown umbrella, fends off a nasty crab, goes snorkeling, meets a variety of talented starfish and much, much more.

KEY FEATURES:
• Story is in both English and Spanish - dynamic switching between the languages at any time
• Italian story content unlocks with In-App upgrade
• 12 animated pages fully translated and localized for each language
• Each page is fully animated, with many hidden surprises

• Virtually every item on each page comes to life when tapped
• All words are “active” for extended word play and language learning – tap on any word to hear it spoken

• Move between pages with swipe or with scrolling page navigation
• Two modes: “Read to Me” and the fully interactive “Let Me Play”

• Multiple settings to further customize the App for your child’s reading experience

• Parental tips to help you get the most out of this Wanderful interactive storybook
• Teacher resources include a 37 page overview of Wanderful Classroom Activities and a free preview of the Just Grandma and Me Classroom Activities guide 
• The full 51 page Classroom Activities Guide is available along with the Italian storybook as an In-App Premium upgrade

Wanderful’s goal is to bring outstanding interactive storybooks to a new generation of children. We know that Just Grandma and Me will provide your family, children and students with hours of listening, watching, and interactive story play. 

Just Grandma and Me is written by Mercer Mayer, the award-winning author and illustrator of over 100 books, including the Little Critter and Little Monster series, and the clasic There's a Nightmare in My Closet.

Privacy Disclosure
Wanderful creates engaging interactive storybooks for children that are educational, fun, and above all safe and appropriate.  Our apps:
• do not collect any information
• does not contain ads
• does not contain in-app purchases
• does not have active links to websites or social networks
• does use analytics to improve our app experience but only in aggregate and never with
  personally identifiable data

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