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Intermediate Horn Book reviews:
Suggested grade level for each entry: 4–6. //** [|//Barefoot Books World Atlas//] written by**// **Nick Crane, illus. by David Dean (Barefoot Books, 2011)**

This app considerably enhances the atlas’s print version with expanded text, up-to-date statistics, photographs, animation, music and sound effects, and a variety of browsing/searching options. //** [|//Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night//] **//**written by Mary Kay Carson (Bookerella and Story Worldwide, 2012)**

This beautiful nonfiction app introduces users to the world’s only flying mammal in seven brief chapters on bat physiology, species, habitats, roosting behaviors, colonies, and echolocation. **// [|Disney American Presidents] //** **(Disney Learning, 2012)**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">Entertaining, yet informative video profiles of each president are accompanied by a scrapbook-like spread full of biographical stats and contextual information about his historical era. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">**// [|Bobo Explores Light] //** **(Game Collage, 2011)**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">Cute robot Bobo guides this engaging overview of many light-related topics (e.g., vision, color, bioluminescence, photosynthesis). Activities allow users to test the principles themselves. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">**// [|The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore] //** **written and illus. by William Joyce (Moonbot Studios, 2011)**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">Booklover Morris’s house is destroyed in a storm, but he follows flying books to a library which becomes his new home. Animation from the Oscar-winning short film is gracefully integrated. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">**// [|The Numberlys] //** **written and illus. by William Joyce (Moonbot Studios, 2012)**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">In this cinematic app, users help a number-based society of cute blobby creatures create letters and language, transforming their industrial Metropolis-inspired cityscape. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;"> [|//**Big Nate: Comix by U!**//] **written and illus. by Lincoln Peirce (HarperCollins and Night & Day Studios, 2011)**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">Customize familiar characters (each in several poses and two sizes), templates, settings, props and speech-balloon options to create original Big Nate comics; then save and share. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;"> [|//**Roxie’s A-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure**//] //**written and illus.**// **by Roxie Munro (OCG Studios, 2011)**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">Sixteen screens make up a gigantic maze through cities, farms, and wilderness full of tiny, animated vignettes. Along the way, users search for hidden numbers, letters, and objects. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">**// [|The Waking Prince] // (Story Elves, 2013)**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">A substantial original fairy tale illustrated with detailed, sepia-toned pencil drawings. In a unique feature, users rotate their iPad to access the hidden “couplet,” a horizontal third page per spread. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">**// [|March of the Dinosaurs] // (Touch Press with National Geographic and Wide-Eyed Entertainment, 2011)**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: arial,serif;">Twelve chapters relate an //Edmontosaurus// herd’s arduous migration south. Smooth animation and impressively thorough profiles of various Cretaceous creatures accompany the narrative.