Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has teamed with ScrollMotion to launch a $9.99 CURIOUS GEORGE’S DICTIONARY app. For pre-schoolers and first graders who get their hands on a parent’s iPhone/iPod Touch, it provides a multimedia teaching experience that “concentrates on essential educational development material, including the alphabet, shapes, numbers, colors and the concept of opposites, such as big/small and tall/short, all through the antics of the classic character Curious George.” In other e-news culled via the Automat: * St. Martin’s Read-It-First is a little bit like a house version of DailyLit: they send shorts excerpts of new and forthcoming books by e-mail, […]
