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|name = Living Books |image = Living Books Logo.png |parent = Random House/Brøderbund |founded = {{start date and age|1992|2|5}} |owner = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |hq_location_country = Los Angeles, California, United States }}Living Books was a series of interactive storybooks for children, first produced by Brøderbund and then spun off into a jointly owned (with Random House) subsidiary, which were distributed on CD-ROM for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. The series began in January 1992[1] with the release of Just Grandma and Me (an adaptation of the book by Mercer Mayer) in 1992 till it ended in 1998; other titles in the series included The Tortoise and the Hare, Arthur's Teacher Trouble (and other adaptations of books by Marc Brown), Dr. Seuss, P. D. Eastman, and Berenstain Bears titles.[2] Atlantan production company Red Rubber Ball (later Little Ark Interactive) created a series of biblical-themes interactive storybooks under contract from Living Books in the late 1990s, and developed under the direction of members of the original Living Books team. By 2013, Wanderful, Inc. obtained the rights of the series and ported most of them to the iOS platforms[3] and also added additional languages to the products.[4] The Dr. Seuss and Little Critter titles were ported to iOS by Oceanhouse Media.[5] The assets are currently licensed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[6] As of 2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is offering the Living Books brand as a licensing opportunity on its website.[7] Games in the series
AvailabilitySeveral former Brøderbund leaders have released selected titles as fully interactive animated applications for Apple mobile devices, as well as for Android as Wanderful Interactive Storybooks. Brøderbund released two compilations of the stories. The first one was titled "Three for Me Library Volume 1™" which contained "Sheila Rae, the Brave", "Just Grandma and Me", "Little Monster at School", "The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight", "Tortoise and the Hare", "Dr. Seuss's ABC", "Green Eggs and Ham", "The Cat in the Hat", "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" and "Harry and the Haunted House".[8]ReceptionCritical receptionComputer Gaming World in 1993 praised Just Grandma and Me and Arthur's Teacher Trouble, describing Living Books as "Broderbund's acclaimed series".[9] Publishers Weekly, in a review of Dr. Seuss' ABC, called that title "one of the best children's CD-ROMs to date" and stated that, "[...] the producers' fondness for Dr. Seuss and their fidelity to his sense of refined silliness spill into every sequence."[10] Simson L. Garfinkel and Beth Rosenberg found that the CD-ROMs played better on Macs than on PCs. Although they found the titles to be of high quality in a market flooded with "questionable" releases for children, they stated that not all of them lived up to the company's educational claims (noting Dr. Seuss' ABC and Arthur's Reading Race as exceptions) and felt that the added dialogue supplementing the book's text was sometimes "out of character".[11] Arthur's Teacher Trouble, The Tortoise and the Hare, Ruff's Bone, and Little Monster at School all received a very high score of over 90.00 in the book CD-ROMs Rated by Les Kranz; in the review for Little Monster at School, the graphics and the number of clickable areas were described as positives.[12]Commercial performanceBy 1995, Mercer Mayer's "Just Grandma and Me" had sold over 400,000 copies since its debut.[13] See also
References1. ^{{cite web |title=1995 Online Annual Report |url=http://www.broder.com/company/investor/95ar-7.html#timeline |work= |publisher=Broderbund |date=1995 |accessdate=September 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970411081549/http://www.broder.com:80/company/investor/95ar-7.html#timeline |archivedate=April 11, 1997}} 2. ^Series Review "THE LIVING BOOKS Series by Living Books/Broderbund." McMath, Chuck. Game Bytes Vol 1. Num. 21. 1994. Retrieved March 24, 2007. 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wanderful-storybooks/id583696319?mt=8|title=Wanderful Storybooks on the App Store|website=iTunes|access-date=2017-04-12}} 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 {{Cite web|url=http://wanderfulstorybooks.com/|title=Wanderful Storybooks - Living Books|website=Wanderful Storybooks|access-date=2017-04-12}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.oceanhousemedia.com/apps/index.html|title=Oceanhouse Media Apps|website=Oceanhouse|access-date=2017-04-12}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.little-ark.com/about-us.html|title=About Us|website=www.little-ark.com|language=en|access-date=2017-03-05}} 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmhco.com/at-home/featured-shops/the-learning-company/licensing-opportunities|title=Licensing Opportunities|website=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|access-date=2017-01-17}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=The Three For Me Library Volume 2™ |url=http://www.broderbund.com/studio/atoz/3forme2.html |work= |publisher= |author=Brøderbund |date=April 12, 1997 |accessdate=June 3, 2016 |deadurl=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19970412104717/http://www.broderbund.com/studio/atoz/3forme2.html |archivedate=April 12, 1997 }} 9. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1993&pub=2&id=105 | title=Forging Ahead or Fit to be Smashed? | work=Computer Gaming World | date=April 1993 | accessdate=July 6, 2014 | pages=24}} 10. ^{{cite journal |date=August 28, 1995 |title=Multimedia Reviews: Dr. Seuss' ABC |journal=Publishers Weekly |volume=242 |issue=35 |page=41 |publisher=Cahners Publishing Company |location=New York |issn=0000-0019}} 11. ^{{cite web |url=http://simson.net/clips/1998/1998.Globe.02-05.Bringing_kids__books_to_life.htm |title=Bringing kids' books to life |accessdate=November 2, 2009 |last=Garfinkel |first=Simson L. |author2=Beth Rosenberg |date=February 5, 1998 |work=Boston Globe Online |publisher=Globe Newspaper Company}} 12. ^{{cite book |title=CD-ROMs Rated: A Guide to the Best and Worst CD ROMs & Multimedia Titles |first1=Les |last1=Kranz |others=Laura L. Armer, Adrienne Brown, Joel Gershon, and Pamela Thomasson (Senior Reviewers), and Marjorie Glass, Brian Harrison, Douglas W, Horner, Corolyn Huesman, Dan Laxton, Vivian Laxton, and Josh Sinton (Reviewers) |year=1994 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |isbn=0-07-912052-0 |pages=}} 13. ^{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com.mt/books?id=wgsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68 |title=Kid-Biz Entry |last=Gillen |first=Marilyn A. |date=1995-02-18 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=2018-09-07 |language=en-US |issn=}} 16 : 1992 video games|1993 video games|1994 video games|1995 video games|1996 video games|1997 video games|1998 video games|Broderbund games|Houghton Mifflin Harcourt franchises|Random House|ScummVM supported games|Children's educational video games|Software for children|Video game franchises introduced in 1992|Video games based on novels|Video games developed in the United States |
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