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  1. Bedtime Books

    Posted by NG
    / January 31, 2013 / Leave a comment
    This week’s Kidslit Musings post comes from new intern Anna Valutkevich! Welcome to the team. She has been searching for Pinwheel-Recommended kidslit, and her debut post is a list of Bedtime Picks.  If you search “bedtime stories” on Amazon and scroll through all the results for the perfect book, your children...
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  2. Musings on Marketing

    Posted by NG
    / January 29, 2013 / Leave a comment
    Marketing is a challenge for any product. Be it a book, an app, a sweater, a new energy drink, or the next big video game, marketing and promoting will be the key to its success. As we take a pause from the latest marketing push we are about to unfold for...
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  3. #DigitalBookWorld 2013: Joining the Conversation from Twitter

    Posted by NG
    / January 15, 2013 / Leave a comment
    “It’s a multimedia, cross media world and story is centre stage.” - (#launchkids tweet from Digital Book World Conference 1/15) The cross-media platform approach to books is a chapter of digital storytelling we have just grazed the surface of at Pinwheel Books. This is a theme underlying all the conversations going on...
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  4. TwinTuesday: Special Look at UrbanSitter

    Posted by NG
    / January 15, 2013 / Leave a comment
    Note: This article is also posted on TwinLife Magazine: This week Twin Tuesday is back with a special post highlighting our friends UrbanSitter. They are a babysitting service that has a big presence in Boston. We first linked up with them for a special event called Potty Palooza, a media-friendly...
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  5. New iPads, New Apps, New Year!

    Posted by NG
    / January 7, 2013 / Leave a comment
    Now that holiday festivities are quieting down, you can start to enjoy those new tablets, iPhones, or other great gifts! Chances are you and your family will want to enjoy all they have to offer, including toddlers and adolescents. The App Store can be a daunting place, even for a...
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  6. All About Poop – now available in Storytime!!

    Posted by NG
    / December 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    (http//bit.ly/getstorytime) We are so excited to announce that our app for All About Poop is LIVE! Now available for purchase through Demibooks Storytime. Storytime is an animated book store curated by Demibooks, the team of developers behind the app-building program Composer. The apps they feature in their store are all...
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  7. Helping our Children Cope

    Posted by NG
    / December 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Last Friday, a terrible, senseless tragedy occurred, taking 26 beautiful people from this world. Words cannot describe the pain and sadness surrounding this event, and our hearts go out to those affected in Newtown, Connecticut. We have all held our families a little closer, hugged a little tighter, and thanked...
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  8. Out and About in Brookline

    Posted by NG
    / December 13, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Pinwheel Books has been attending a bunch of local events this holiday season! Our silence on the blog has been because we have been selling books, storytelling, and interacting with our readers. Here are some of the highlights from where we’ve been: Brookline Arts Center Artist Marketplace: At the end...
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  9. The making of the All About Poop App – Part 2

    Posted by NG
    / December 10, 2012 / Leave a comment
    (check out part 1 here) Part IV: The Troubleshooting Process Written By Tester Bianca Valerio Demibooks, a company founded in the summer of 2010, offers code-free software platforms that provide Pinwheel Books and other publishers (including self-published authors and illustrators) an affordable way to create interactive books for the iPad,...
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  10. The making of the All About Poop App – Part 1

    Posted by NG
    / December 10, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The All About Poop app was a lot of fun to make, but it also took a lot of hard work. The team at Pinwheel Books worked with animators, authors, and illustrators to bring this story to life – in both digital and print forms. We chronicled our journey over...
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