Penguin's Family - Smithsonian Oceanic Collection

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Overview

This application is recommended for ages 4+.

Soundprints and the Smithsonian Institution take you on an exciting adventure to the west coast of Peru where the Humboldt Penguin family teaches Baby Penguin how to survive. When penguin hatches, Mother and Father Penguin keep him warm and feed him mushed anchovies and other tiny fish. As Penguin grows older, they protect him ...
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Overview

This application is recommended for ages 4+.

Soundprints and the Smithsonian Institution take you on an exciting adventure to the west coast of Peru where the Humboldt Penguin family teaches Baby Penguin how to survive. When penguin hatches, Mother and Father Penguin keep him warm and feed him mushed anchovies and other tiny fish. As Penguin grows older, they protect him from hungry sea birds. Now, Penguin must learn to swim. Will Penguin be safe on his own?

This story is part of the Smithsonian Oceanic collection and includes a glossary and interesting facts about Humboldt Penguins.

New features only available in this interactive omBook for your Android device include professional narration, background audio and enlarged artwork for each scene. To promote reading in young children, individual words are highlighted as the story is read and words zoom up when pictures are touched. By combining the original text and artwork with features that educate, entertain and promote reading, this omBook appeals to readers of all ages.

Three ways to read this omBook:
★ "Read to Me" — listen to the narrated story with words highlighted as they are read
★ "Read it Myself" — read the book in its traditional form
★ "Auto Play" — plays like a movie, automatically reading and turning pages. Great for younger children!

Additional Features:
★ Picture / Word association — words zoom up and are spoken when pictures are touched
★ Professional audio narration
★ Background music and sound effects
★ Pages pan & zoom to accentuate the beautiful, original artwork

Official Soundprints licensed app.
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940043860088
  • Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
  • Publication date: 9/29/2011
  • Series: NOOKapps Series
  • Version name: 1.29
  • Format: NOOK App
  • File size: 20 MB
  • Note: This product may take a few minutes to download.
  • Sales rank: 73,607
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  • Please contact the developer directly if you would like to report a problem:
    • URL: http://www.oceanhousemedia.com/support/
    • Email: support@ombook.com

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  • Posted October 18, 2011

    Informative

    I think I enjoyed this book more than the 2 and 4 year olds but they liked it fairly well.

    4 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 22, 2011

    Nice

    My 3 year old likes this a lot.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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