Website - School Library Journal

School Library Journal is (according to their website) the leading print magazine for librarians who work with children, teens, and young adults. School Library Journal also maintains a free website that houses a wealth of useful information. Through its articles and reviews, School Library Journal is a good source of information on different forms of reading for teens. There are numerous articles on technology use and integration, links to blogs such as Good Comics for Kids, and an entire section devoted to digital content. I found an interesting article titled "A Souped-up Picture Book: What Apple's iPad might mean for libraries".

School Library Journal

Although I was already familiar with the website, it came up in a Google search for "multimedia book reviews".

Multimedia - The Future of Books?

Atomic Antelope Ltd. received a good deal of hype recently for their iPad version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Taking advantage of the iPad's different capabilities, the ebook contains stylized full-color illustrations, animation, and interactive elements (“Tilt your iPad to make Alice grow as big as a house, or shrink to just six inches tall”). Atomic Antelope describes their product as “the digital pop-up book for a Blade Runner generation”. Would young readers be interested? Most definitely. I think that the Alice book clearly shows that there is a lot of potential for mixed media ebooks. Check out the video below.

Alice for the iPad [video]. (2010). Retrieved 1 August, 2010, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw