Wasn't there something similar with the Eyetoy?

I just saw that you user title is "Misanthrope" yet you claim to have a very good friend. :)

Anyway, I hope that you will convey the feedback to your friend.

If Harold and the Purple Crayon had included an interactive app, that would have set a bar so high that everything in my life afterwards would be a tired slog toward death's embrace by way of comparison.

Cool idea, though. The animations might take away from the imagination/personalization necessary to fill in the gaps between pictures in a "normal" book, but I can see how it would be appealing to use the app as a gateway drug to normal books instead of trying to convince kids to put down their electronic whatsits so that you can force feed one down their throat.

F**k! I did the same thing for my daughter some months ago. I got her Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, The Gift of the Magi, Peter Pan, Huckleberry Finn, Alice in Wonderland and Gulliver's Travels.

Classics that endure!

Brilliant choice of books. Childrens books now a days just don't have the same magic (or clever good writing ) that the use to. Great thing about these books is I can read them too. :D

I can't see that at all. In my experience once kids can read they transition quite quickly from listening to books and looking at the pictures to reading the books. I can't see how combining a book with an AR tablet experience would make them read more. It will just be a distraction. If it will have any audience, it's parents who don't really care for books, have a half-hearted notion that it's a good idea that their kids read books even if they (the parents) don't like reading books, and think that a book with animation is superior to a plain book (because, hey, books are booooooooring).