Filipino storybook apps for the iPad
Pagpagayuk and Mariang Sinukuan on the iPad This is a post wherein many of my worlds collide--my work, my book blogging, and--only a tad bit--my family. Anyway, the educational publisher I work for, Vibal Publishing House, Inc. , has released its first set of interactive storybook apps for the iPad and for the Android! And they're the first storybook apps for the iPad developed entirely in the Philippines by a publishing house! And they're the first Filipino-English bilingual storybook apps in the world! Yes, those are exclamation points because I'm very proud of having been part of the process of their development. So, this is not a review because I can't review something that I helped make. This is, obviously, shameless plugging. There are five storybooks from Vibal's Chikiting books imprint developed into apps. These are: Amansinaya: Goddess of the Sea Story by Eugene Evasco Illustrated by Jomike Tejido Mariang Sinukuan: The Goddess and Ke...