One of our favorite picture books is now available as an iPhone App from PicPocket Books!
Just in time for Lunar New Year—the year of the Tiger begins on February 14th—explore an urban Chinatown and discover hidden shapes: round rice bowls and pebbles, square dim sum and boxes, and rectangular Chinese lace.
Special features
• High fidelity, full-color illustrations that are true to the original print book.
• Interactive audio “hot spots”—touch the dog, kittens, and more to hear their sounds!
• High quality audio recording.
• Highlighted text corresponds with audio—each word highlights as it is read to help new readers understand the connection between words and sounds—excellent for beginning readers or curious pre-readers.
• Play-pause to start and stop the story at any time.
• Fast-forward and fast-back to replay images and audio.
• Glossary adds cultural significance to the objects featured in the book.
• Buy it once, play it as many times as you want.
Visit our friends at PicPocket Books to check out all of their fabulous kids book Apps for the iPhone.
WIN a redemption code that you can use to download the Round is a Mooncake App free from iTunes. Just leave a comment below with your favorite Chinese food—we’ll choose three winners on February 13th at 3:00pm Pacific Time. MORE chances to win! Enter by February 26th at 3:00pm Pacific time for your chance to win one of three redemption codes.
Lara Starr
Marketing Manager, Children’s
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egg rolls! fried goodness!
My son would love this. His favorite are potstickers.
Hmmmm… fried rice, I think. Really interested to see how a children’s book functions on an iPhone.
tofu vegetable soup
Hi, I love dimsum in general, but especially bean curd rolls with mushrooms and eggyolk custard baked buns. Yum.
mmmm, steamed pork buns!
This is a really hard decision. I love all (ok, most) Chinese food. I think I am going to have to go with noodles off all kinds!
pot stickers!
taro dumplings. so hungry now!
I love this book as do my first grade students and my 4 and 2 year old children!
Fried shrimp wontons & dim sum are our faves! Yummy!
Love vegetarian spring rolls and anything with tofu.
pork shui mai or har gow!
Shrimp rolls!
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definitely noodles and dumplings. i could (and often do) eat it every day.
Chow fat noodles. My daughter would love this book. She loves her other books on the iphone.
Fortune cookies!
Cha shao bao, the delicious steamed pork buns.
So many choices! Potstickers right now.
We love this book, how fun it would be to have it on my Ipod Touch, too!
Oops, hit submit before I mentioned my favorite Chinese food was Peking Duck with sweet buns!
a tasty tie between ginger chicken and orange beef
Hot and sour soup and crab rangoon.
Beijing Pork Chops!
Eggrolls are the best.
My favorite Chinese food is General Tso’s Chicken and Crab Wontons. Yummy!
I love dumplings! They aré so tasty!
Homemade Shu Mai are the best! What a neat idea to have a picture book app!
It’d have to be Mabo Tofu, although Roast Duck would be also a close 1st :-)
congee! (really) fried white parsnip cake, chicken and glutionious rice wrapped in lotus leaf (yummmy) red bean buns! black sesame glutionous rice ball (desert)! coconut buns!
mmm. Ginger beef is the best!
Sesame chicken with lo mein noodles!
Springs rolls, fried rice, orange chicken..oh my!
Chicken & corn soup
chicken with almonds..mmmm…
I love vegetable fried rice andy daughter loves the honey chicken and we both love books!
We love sweet & sour chicken and veggie fried rice!
My 2 daughters love to go to the ‘moving trays’ restaurant which is their description of Dim Sum. The youngest LOVES Congee and tells everyone that it is her favorite food!