Story place topsy turvy tales

story place is quite interactive and definatley fun for kid as it gives you the option to name your character and choose your character, the actually story is animated, although there is a fair bit of reading in the none animated parts, the layour is very child friendly and the colours are bright and fun which i think children lik overall a good site

Storyline online

although this site isnt exactly interactive it is still quite intresting, what actually happens is that you select the story and it enters a youtube video where you hsve a narrator telling the story whilst the video plays on screen with the animated story i think it would appeal to children but i think it could be a little more interactive with the user. but overall it is pretty good

Magickeys.com nothing interactive here!

so this is magic keys.com.. suppoosedly fun stories online for kids....but to be honest this site couldnt get any duller if it tried, the books have no user interaction apart from the children get the grand task of selcting the next button,,, the images are not even animated and it is frankly so boring even the inital opening page where you can choose the stories is set out like a google the colours are dul and uninteresting and i dont think a child would sit and read the 20 odd pages in this book

Mr Picasso Head!

as i want to give my users a chance to create their own character for the webbook i decided to have a look at what is available at the minute, whilst browsing the web i cam across mr picasso head which i think is great, it encorporates and artist aswel i thought it was great that you could create your own style of picasso art with a variety of heads and facial features to choose from, it also allowed you to change colours and ad a signature i think kind of style would be great for my webbook idea and i definatley want to create something as good as this as i think it is brilliant and i want to add other body parts too so i think this would definately appeal to young children

children web books

http://www.mightybook.com/story_books.html

 

This webbook actually does look slighlty at art as it looked at the mona lisa, this webbook was interatctive in the respect that it was animated, but actually the user doesnt have a lot to do its just literally sit and watch, i also found that it was very slow and slighty boring. i did quite like the illustractions used on the webbook but that was probably the best thing about it

Cbeebies!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/tikkabilla/stories/tikkabilla-dickwhittington/

  

cbeebies have a wide range of online story books for young children, although not about art they show like a more basic version of the direction i intend to head, what i like is the fact that the children can easily access them from the cbeebies website and they can pick which they want to read about however i find the actuall 'reading' of the story quite boring as its not very interactive although the character moves a little it to me seems quite dated i think the children should be able to acutally interact with the story or have like a small activity to do on each page rather than just selecting the next button, the actual website itself though isd great for young children the colours are bright and its full of characters that instantly get the childrens attention

More Books!

although this book still has a lot of information in i really like how it is written its much more appealling to children the words they have used are much more 'child friendly' in my opinion what i really like is how they use words like swirling sky and wavy lines and quiet lines it explains them in a quite childish way and i want to capture this in my webbook. overall looking at the educational books for young children i havent been massivly imopressed some have really good aspects about them but as a whole i dont feek they are very imaginative for young children and i feel i can definatley make the learning about art more fun.