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Visit Inkygirl.com, my illustrated guide for those who write and draw for young people. For info about my writing, drawing and other projects, see DebbieOhi.com.
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Welcome to iPadGirl, my blog about e-books, digital publishing (esp. effect on children's publishing), iPad apps for writers, and using the iPad for creative inspiration. I post much more frequently in my iPadGirl Twitter account than I do in this blog.
Thanks to BusinessInsider for profiling me in their iPads and creativity article!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 1:12 PM in Children's Book Industry & Digital Publishing, E-Books & Digital Publishing 
Thanks to Mike Cope for pointing me to Digital Storytime, which reviews kids' book apps as well as being a kids' book app store.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 1:09 PM in Drawing on the iPad, Site news & admin, iPadGirl Events 
Photo by cartoonist Jonathan Mahood.
Thanks to Chris Cheung, Product Manager of Autodesk SketchBook, for inviting me to speak at Autodesk's first dedicated SketchBook event in Toronto! Omigosh, soooooo fun. You can see photos and read my report here:
Inspiration, Art and a 12-Course Susur Lee Dinner at the Autodesk SketchBook Toronto Event
sketchbookpro Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM in Site news & admin Apologies for the long hiatus. So much has been going on in my life (all good).
For those interested in iPad stuff, I post far more often in my @iPadGirl Twitter account than I do in this blog.
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 12:09 PM in Children's Book Industry & Digital Publishing, Digital Publishing, E-Books & Digital Publishing Thanks to Justin Chanda for the heads-up on an article in The Atlantic which prompt me to buy an iPad book called The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
Oh. My. Gosh.
Kudos to Moonbot Studios and author William Joyce. I LOVE this app.
This app is part storybook, part game, and part animation. Wonderful writing and animation, plus the interactive bits are well-integrated and enhance the story rather than distract from it. A question I posted in Twitter a while back prompted much discussion on Twitter and Google+ about what exactly makes a children's ebook (vs a game), and I'm nearly finished compiling people's comments into an article...I definitely have to mention Moonbot's book app!
Anyway, the story's about a book-obsessed fellow who gets swept away by a storm and ends up in a country house filled with bookish fun. See the trailer above for more info.
Simon & Schuster is publishing a book based on the app/film, and Dreamworks is coming out with a movie in 2012.
Related links:
How to Build the Pixar of the iPad Age in Shreveport, Louisiana
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 10:29 AM in Children's Book Industry & Digital Publishing, Digital Publishing Thought-provoking video showing a baby who tries to interact with a print magazine the same way as she does with an iPad.
I'm curious, though. To you parents out there with babies AND iPads: is this consistent with your own experience?