Did you know that our apps are based on our original series of books?
From time to time a few issues of our second book "Sunny" (the inspiration for our recent app "Sunny's Hootenanny" become available on amazon, but it can be difficult to find a copy, so we've put a copy on issuu for you to read.
Just click twice on the window below and "Sunny" will pop up in a readable size.
Meanwhile, we're putting the CD of music that comes with the original book up on Soundcloud.
Image from Care.com's 25 Adorably Engaging Apps for Toddlers
Ah, every once in a while we stumble on a lovely review of the apps!
The aptly named "coolmomtech" team listed us in their roundup of "13 of the best Android apps for kids, all right on Google Play" and Care.com listed us in their article: "25 Adorably Engaging Apps for Toddlers", under 'Cause and effect apps': saying,
Windy and Friends Appisodes: A Collection of Kid's Puppet Adventures and Activities, $6.99
A magical five app bundle, Windy and Friends Appisodes features gentle characters and interactive stories about everyday situations.
If you see any news about us, let us know! We're a pretty small team (literally, hehe) and sometimes we miss things. Luckily, we already read coolmomtech, so we stumbled upon it by pure luck!
Follow up: thanks to the lovely folks at MPR News' and California Public Radio's amazing Brains On podcast for directing us to this lovely review of our Halloween appisode "Foggy's Big Fright" from Geeks with Juniors.
Chinook just made a fantastic and easy Honey Cake adapted from this recipe at epicurious. It's great because the mixing is easy (no butter) and it keeps well for a couple of days so it's great for bake sales and pot-lucks. Chinook's cake was for a potluck picnic and the pan was empty before going home. It will serve about 20-24 people
This is a super-flexible recipe and quite forgiving: great for new and experimenting bakers. See what you can find in your cupboard and make your own version.
It was successfully tested by one of our favourite 6-year-olds, with help from a grown up to put the pan in the oven:
Her version is Lemon Ginger Honey Cake:
· replaced 1 cup honey with 1/2 cup lemon infused honey + 1/4 cup plain honey + 1/4 cup ginger simple syrup (these are things she had in the cupboard).
· replaced orange juice with lemonade
· replaced whiskey with ginger beer (a strong ginger soda pop popular in the UK and Jamaica, it's available in most grocer's) or ginger tea would also be great.
· replaced coffee with chai (she used rooibos chai to make it caffeine-free)
· reduced the white sugar by half a cup
#ChinookCooks
Sunny's new appisode has been featured again on the App Store for "Kids" and "Kids Under 5" . We're so proud of him! (And our free app Meet Windy & friends is featured as a favourite!)
In case you missed the last post, this sweet story teaches us how to identify the basic elements of music and once we learned them, we made our own music video! See it in the grand finale of "Sunny's Hootenanny"!
and Google Play
and on Amazon!
and ps now on SoundCloud ... more soon
Our most recent apps, "Meet Windy & friends" and "Sunny's Hootenanny" are the first two featured apps for kids on the App Store (iTunes) — hooray! It's a big deal for a small independent series like ours :)
Meanwhile, we are taking a well-deserved holiday ... first stop: Paris!
Windy & Sunny (and Windy) on iTunes
Spring in Windy on holiday
Presenting the trailer for our new app "Meet Windy & friends", which is available on Apple and Android. Learning Outcome for this app: learn the seasons, counting, colours, matching and rhythm. This is a great app for road trips!
For a limited time, this app is FREE on iTunes!
