Interactive Books

My children and there friends love theses books. Everytime they pick one up they always see something new. It is fun for them on their own and with us also.

This is an entertaining workbook that teaches a child to focus, remember and identify items on colorful pages. The story is very entertaining and the skills developed here will lead to good study habits and strong attention to detail. My 6-year old and I laughed and had such fun as he found the items and solved the puzzles. Excellent busy work for a trip!

I began buying Usborne Young Puzzle Books for my daughter two years ago, at age 4. She loves them all, and we re-read them constantly at her request, even now when she can read to herself. This book is one of her favorites; she enjoys the plot and the puzzles. The story is about a boy who, having studied Egypt in school recently, was invited to visit his aunt, an archeologist in Egypt. But when he arrives, he finds her missing and must using his wits to find the pyramid treasure before the dastardly villain. We highly recommend all 15 of the puzzle books by Susannah Leigh.

Each page of this book has a puzzle to solve- work your way through a maze, find what is different, look for something missing and so on. In addition to that there is an overall game of find the things on each page that are scattered around. It is like a "Where's Waldo" book only there is more to it than just finding one man or a few people in a crowded picture. In addition to that it is a story too.

All of the Usborne Young Puzzle books are great for young readers who like to challenge themselves. My daughter who is not a reader likes to sit on my lap and work through the puzzles as I read the bo ok. It is a fun and interesting read.

This book is the first of a two volume set on QuickTime programming on both Mac and Windows machines. This first volume is more concerned with the basics of controlling multimedia through a C program that uses the QuickTime API. You'll learn how to open, play, edit, and save a movie file. Besides just video you also learn how to use the Quicktime interface to work with images, text, timecode, and sprites. Fundamental Quicktime concepts are all introduced in this first volume. The author does all this by creating an application entitled "QTShell" that he adds to as he gradually explains each concept. This same application is used in volume two also. The author assumes the reader already knows his/her computing platform and OS, what QuickTime is, and how to program in C. This frees him to concentrate on the Hows of Quicktime programming. Both volumes of this programming guide began as a series of magazine articles, thus the style is quite accessible - it is not a terse academic style tome at all.

Tim Monroe's column in MacTech is as much a final word on QuickTime as Apple's developer docs. This book is the de facto official guide to native development with QuickTime and given the size of the QT API, you'd be hard pressed to know where to begin without it. Tim starts with a basic "shell" application that compiles and runs on Mac and Windows -- yes, Windows developers are very much part of the target audience -- and covers the basics of playing, editing, saving and exporting movies, then moves into tricky stuff like sprites (which takes four chapters), VR, and effects.

For C-language developers, this and its volume 2 companion are the books you want. I wrote a book on QuickTime for Java (QTJ being just a wrapper around the C calls), and I wish this book had been out before I started, because it would have saved me a lot of research time figuring out what my code was calling and why it worked the way it did. In fact, those who've mastered QTJ can probably read this book and do a mental "port" from C to Java to figure out material I didn't cover.

Recommended? Hell, if you're in the QT space, this is *required* reading.

This is one of my all-time favorite books and my daughter's too. The illustrations are gorgeous...clean & simple, artistic yet restrained. The wordless illustrated pages narrate the story so clearly through simply illustrated frames. I love that this story plays out a timeless daydream/fantasy of adventure in a realistic way that both my 2 year old and I can imagine could actually happen. She has me read it to her several times a day and I never tire of it. It is the perfect children's book.

We loved The Red Book and now Rainstorm. Neither book has text, but the pictures tell the story wonderfully. Beautifully illustrated throughout; a timeless work of art.

This book is more than a story,it teaches the child dexterity,and helps focus their attention.It is a simple story about a dragon changing and adapting to new friends and surroundings,something that is hard for children to comprehend.It also lets the child interact by dressing the dragon up at appropriate times,better than any computer game.I am serching for more books like this one.

Part pop-up book and part puzzle, your young child will actively participate in this amusing tale of The Red Dragon. Forced to move from his former cave, the fire breathing reptile moves into new digs. Hungry and unsettled he looks to a cow, sheep and horse for food. They are fearful of their new neighbor and say they can only offer grass. FInally the dragon tries the green delicacy and realizes that YES it is quite tasty. He turns green and makes new friends.

Then this is the book for you. I've made 8 shorts now...and I wish I had this book 2 years ago! I've bought dozens of books over the last 3 years but this is the first one that's been wrote by real filmakers. How do I know? There are REAL tips in it. I mean those ones that come from really making a film...not the same moron advice that everyone gives.

There's a real good case study too. It reminds me of my first video shoot for 'The Clan'. There's real good focus in there, but I think they could go further with putting things together.

Buy this book if you're an editor or a director. Definitely if you're a director! I started out editing and some of the directors I worked with could really do with reading this book ;o)

For some reason the British have the best graphics magazines...always the best reviews and tutorials. Thus it is no surprise that the book, Revolutionary - Final Cut Pro 2 by Blissett et al, is such a fine book. About the first third of the book deals with planning a production, actually shooting the footage, and preparing the footage for editing. All of these discussions are accompanied by examples and real world comments.
The rest of the book deals with Final Cut Pro 2 (FCP2) in a logical progression from clip capture to editing, then on to special effects and concluding with sound. Throughout the discussions are examples to work along with as well as a continuing project called "yootclub."
This book gives an excellent introduction to video production, in general, and FCP2 in particular.

This has been an absolute favorite with my son since he was a bit over one year of age. He is a huge fan of Richard Scarry and wants to look at this book all the time. He never seems to tire of it.

This book has lots of little windows that open to show what's going on behind them. It has been great entertainment throughout the first two years of my daughter's life and probably for at least two more! When she was very small she enjoyed touching the flaps and watching me open them. Now she can open them by herself and fold the book out into a town.

A great follow-up to the origonal stragity guide for Rollar Coaster Tycoon 2. Shows ways of making money in RCT2 that help you be a Roller Coaster Tycoon Champ.

I've done it a hundred times. This is really fun to play with your friends at slumber parties.

This is a good book, it has a lot of photos from the first season of the show, it also has a trivia part and Quizes.

This is an awesome book!It has 50 sticker of Sabrina,Harvey,Jenny,Salem,and more!Trivas,games,and tons of pictures is also what you will find in this book!

that sweetly teaches our children the value of friendship

because I want to tell you that this is the most wonderful story I have ever read about the value of friendship and loyalty!!!
Besides, I liked coloring the drawings very much and writing my name in the lines inside the book...