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An Anthology of Great Children's Literature app for iPhone and iPad


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Entertainment Book
Developer: Matthew Szenher
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 07 Aug 2009
App size: 2.13 Mb

This eBook contains twelve classic books for children, pre-teens and young adults. These are stories by some of historys greatest novelists including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain to name a few.

The complete list of books in this collection is as follows:

+The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane
+Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell
+Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
+Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
+The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
+Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
+Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
+The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
+King Solomons Mines by H. Rider Haggard
+Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner
+The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
+The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Note: The Red Badge of Courage contains some rather bloody scenes of war that may not be suitable for young children.

HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can access the text with the following commands:
+When reading a chapter, swipe to the left to go to the next page.
+Swipe to the right to go to the previous page.
+Double-tap the screen to move to the beginning of a chapter.
+Click on the B button at the top-right of each page of text to store a bookmark at the current page. You can delete outdated bookmarks by editing the Bookmarks list. The eBook also automatically stores a bookmark at the most recently viewed page. This last-page-viewed bookmark always appears at the top of the Bookmarks list and cannot be deleted.

The eBook application allows you to change the texts font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Please note that when you first open a chapter, the application takes two or three seconds to perform certain initialization operations before the text appears. The same is true when you change font and/or color settings. You should see an activity indicator going round and round while the application performs this initialization.