A Word's a Bird www.awordsabird.com An animated interactive poetry iPad app, illustrated with watercolors. For children and adults. Bilingual (French-English)

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This is a poetry app for children of all ages as well as adults. The youngest can listen to the words, watch the animation and play with the pictures and sounds. Older readers can use the interactive glossary that explains the rhymed metaphors. 

Illustrated with hundreds of watercolors and traditional animation, complemented with the sounds of nature, spring comes alive!
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A high-quality app featuring spring poems in 

glorious, animated watercolor is blooming on 

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THE AUTHOR 
Orel Protopopescu is a children's author and poet whose books have been published by major houses (Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, FSG) and honored by the New York Times, the New York Public Library, Bank St. College and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. A recent picture book, Thelonious Mouse (Farrar Straus Giroux) was the New York region's SCBWI Crystal Kite winner, 2012.


www.orelprotopopescu.com
THE ILLUSTRATOR 
Jeanne B. de Sainte Marie is an author and illustrator. She hails from Michigan where she studied art and textile design. For years she created color and materials for the automotive industry in Detroit and then in Paris, where she settled. Her watercolors are regularly exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic and published in picture books, travel notebooks, children's calendars and magazines.



www.jeannedesaintemarie.com
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Tradition & Technology
Thanks to Syntonie's recognized know-how in the ergonomics of reading, a seamless blend of interactive technology and traditional watercolor animation was created. The illustrator's work was strictly respected to preserve the quality of hand-colored paintings, drawn and animated image by image. Our ambition? Nothing short of producing one of the first classics for the iPad. 

Paper, ink, and…
computers
In addition to the artists, a complete team of animators, developers, graphic designers, FX and sound engineers has worked together to enhance A Word's a Bird with their expertise. Technology is seamlessly interwoven with content. Animation brings paintings to life, and a no-button interface keeps interactivity natural. A rich visual, auditory and tactile experience awaits all those who download A Word's a Bird.


April Ducks sing your tunes
May Flowers open and close
June Dogs sail to your touch
CHILDREN LEARN THROUGH PLAY 
The app makes metaphor, the heart and soul of poetry, visible to even the youngest children. They will understand, by playing with the animated watercolors, how a flowering shoot becomes a flute when you touch it, how a bloom makes a cozy room for a bee. This is hands-on learning.
METAPHORS MAKE SURPRISING CONNECTIONS 
Orel has decades of experience working with children. Holding up an orange, she asked a kindergarten class to complete the phrase, "Round as..." A little girl said, "Round as love." "How is love round?" Orel asked her. "Like this," she said, making a circle with her arms, "when you hug someone."

THE HUMAN VOICE, THE NATURAL WORLD 
A Word's a Bird makes Nature come to life on your iPad. You can hear the real sounds of insects, birds, frogs, wind, water and more. 
The poems are narrated by Kenny Mann, a film maker, writer and teacher who grew up in Kenya with keen appreciation for the natural world.

Kenny Mann
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