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One of greatest children ebooks of all time! Time named the Fresh Child on the Block as one of the greatest 100 children's ebooks ever! Now it is accessible as an interactive animated poetry storybook with hilarious poems you bring to life - for kids and adults too! • Champion of a MOM'S CHOICE Gold Award • Champion of a PARENTS’ CHOICE Gold Honor Award • Champion of the EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD from Children's Technology Review • An interactive animated storybook of poems originally published by the award-winning Living Ebooks With the Fresh Child on the Block, a very special interactive poetry ebook, kids are encouraged to learn the meaning of words by exploring poems. They'll meet an ugly dog, a leaking baby and the exploding Bloders. They giggle at the antics of a chorus line of 40 dancing bananas and laugh as fearless Tillie eats her fiery chilli. And much more! In this irresistible collection of 18 hilarious poems, Jack Prelutsky displays an unerring instinct for topics that appeal to kids (of all ages). In this collection are poems touched by magic and brought to life with heroes that talk and move and sing and dance. Unbelievable worlds, begging to be explored begin up at each turn of the page. With sound effects, melody, humor and lots of animations, it's a whole fresh learning experience. Reading skills grow through word recognition. Words, phrases and lines can be highlighted individually; they are then read aloud, and animations convey their meaning. KEY FEATURES: • Eighteen poems, with 59 fully animated pages • Virtually every word on each page comes to life when tapped • Words, phrases and lines can be highlighted individually; they are then read aloud, and animations convey their meaning • Words are "active" for extended word play and language learning - tap on any word to hear it spoken • Move between pages with swipe or with scrolling page navigation • Two modes: "Read to Me" and the fully interactive "Allow Me Play" • Multiple settings to further customize the Apk for your child's reading experience • Parental advices to assist you receive the most out of this Wanderful interactive storybook FOR TEACHERS • A 31 page overview of the Classroom Activities and a gratis preview of The Fresh Child on the Block Classroom Activities tutorial PDF documents are included. • The full 45 page Fresh Child on the Block Classroom Activities tutorial PDF document is accessible as an in-app purchase. The Classroom Activities for The Fresh Child on the Block have been made to assist develop connections between this interactive storybook and the ongoing activities in your classroom. You will search there the activity plans, reproducibles, extensions, a thematic unit, annotated bibliography, and extra teaching resources, as well as technical, practical, and curricular help. In addition, the activities align strongly with the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics. Jack Prelutsky, America's first Children's Poet Laureate, has been delighting kids for years with his poems. While Jack has published over 1,000 poems in about 70 volumes, some of his most loved verses are to be found in The Fresh Child on the Block and he himself has read four of the selections in this Apk. Since the publication of The Fresh Child, Jack's imagination has delved into the realm of dragons, scrambled animals, outer place, and even an "ordinary" day at school. Privacy Disclosure Wanderful creates engaging interactive storybooks for kids that are educational, fun, and above all secure and appropriate. This apk: • does not collect any info • does not include advertisements • includes in-app purchases and does let you to purchase another Wanderful storybooks • has active links to sites or social network from pages targeted at parents • uses analytics to improve our apk experience but only in aggregate and never with personally identifiable data