Give every child in your life a FREE Animalations App for Valentine's Day. Riley the Rhinoceros and all of his friends are free on iTunes apps - now through February 15. All around the world, children will sparkle as they sing and tap-along, as interactive pages turn. Free Apps include:

Riley the Rhinoceros

Sly the Dragonfly

Goose With the Droopy Wing

Mr. Walrus and the Old School Bus

Cassandra the Cow

Louwse the Mouse Get Out of My House

Louwse the Mouse in the Big Apple Tree (NYC, of course)

This is a special gift for you and all of your loved ones, whether they live in your house, down the street, or any street in the world. Enjoy this special treat and share it on Twitter, Facebook and maybe even your blog.

So where have I been for 2 1/2 months? I have been sooo busy working on my new book for Young Adults. It's titled, FLESHSHIFTING. I can't wait to share it. Today, it is in the hands of the editors. It will probably take a few more months. Website: fleshshifting.com will be up and running soon.

I have another book that will be available very soon on iTunes:
CATALINA AND THE DUKE OF LOMBARD: two cats, two worlds. This book is especially for TWEENS.

Current Animalations apps downloading on iTunes.com include:

LOUWSE IN THE BIG APPLE TREE

RILEY THE RHINOCEROS

SLY THE DRAGONFLY

LITTLE GOOSE WITH THE DROOPY WING

CASSANDRA THE COW

MR. WALRUS AND THE OLD SCHOOL BUS

LOUWSE THE MOUSE GET OUT OF MY HOUSE

Animalations apps are gaining recognition worldwide because they combine music and language: helping children and adults learn to speak and read the English language. Combining music and language also stimulates the brain to make stronger neuron connections, thereby making learning easier. Go to animalations.com research and learn more.

Please help us by writing a short Customer Review of each of your favorite apps in the iTunes.com app store (just below the Screenshots).

LOUWSE IN THE BIG APPLE TREE is a new app, available for download on ipad, iphone and ipod. This wonderful, holiday app tells the story of the Big Apple (New York City) and the evergreen tree that is placed in Rockefeller Center each year. It is the story of Louwse the Mouse pushing through the branches of the tree to find a busy community of tree workers inside the tree, ever so busy, getting ready for the holidays. Louwse discovers an elevator in the trunk of the tree that takes him to each of the ten levels of the tree. On each level, Louwse quickly volunteers to help the workers move forward because there is so much to be done to get ready for the holidays. Then on the tenth level, Louwse is selected to drive the sleigh through the sky to deliver joys to children around the world. Price:$2.99 includes an original song that sings the words in the story. This wonderful tale will be shared year after year, by children around the world.

Animalations has 7 new ipad/iphone apps on iTunes. They rotate each week: FREE, 99¢. $1.99, $2.99. Please help by reviewing your favorites.

What can be better than a FREE APP, for Labor Day weekend. MR. WALRUS AND THE OLD SCHOOL BUS, AND CASSANDRA THE COW are both FREE for the month of September. Tell your friends and download like crazy.

Also, SLY THE DRAGONFLY and LOUWSE THE MOUSE GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, are selling for $.99 for the month of September, while $2.99 is still an excellent price for GOOSE WITH THE DROOPY WING and RILEY THE RHINOCEROS.

As children enjoy the song while reading these books, they will want to do it over and over again because of the multi-sensory stimulation they are experiencing. The reader has no idea the experience is firing neurons in his brain, thereby, making stronger connections (synapse), and.... stronger neuron-connections makes learning easier for children.

We have something NEW coming-UP, in our next app. The viewer will be able to select any page in the app and by pushing a button, the page turns into a puzzle. I like to call it the scrambler. No instruction is necessary. The child immediately uses a finger to move the puzzle pieces into the correct order. How fun! Watch for it in: LOUWSE THE MOUSE IN THE BIG APPLE TREE. Of course the Big Apple Tree is the huge evergreen tree placed in Rockefeller Center for the December holidays. Did you know there's a world inside that tree? You can hear the song on iTunes, Napster and other online music sites. In future blogs, I will provide snippets from the screen play so you can learn more about the real Big Apple Tree in New York's Rockefeller Center.

Countries downloading Animalations ebook apps: USA, China, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Spain, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, India, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and the numbers are growing everyday. Of course, non-English speaking viewers can use the ebook-apps to learn English by simply learning the words to the song. Why? Because the words in the song, sing the words in the story. It is so easy to learn the words to the song because of the melody and patterns in the music. So... when the viewer sings the song, he/she is actually reading a story written in the English language. Again, how fun!

Animalations iTunes: 6 Educational eBook Apps

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 25, 2011 – An original song - sings the words in the text of the story. Pre-readers and non-English speaking learners around the world can now sing-along: The inclusion of a song is ingenious. It elevates the ebooks to more than a reading experience. By employing music, the author provides more tools for teaching. -Writer's Digest.

Animalations apps are available in 122 countries with the greatest downloads in USA, Canada, UK, South Africa, China, Japan, Australia, Chile, Thailand, France, Singapore, Jamaica, Indonesia, India and United Arab Emirates. Non-English speaking learners enjoy each story as they learn the English language.

Author Patricia Derrick brings vast experience and knowledge regarding early childhood and language development. As founder and director of SpringStone Montessori Schools, Derrick has authored a full-line of children's ebooks designed to educate while viewers experience music and language.

LITTLE GOOSE WITH THE DROOPY WING plans to be a leader the in the sky. Soon his body comes alive and he navigates his flock through a storm-filled sky. CASSANDRA THE COW eats all the strawberries on the way to the fair. Upon arrival, the children milk Cassandra and yes, they get strawberry milk.

Louwse the Mouse visits the children’s house everyday. When he finally gets a house of his own in the back yard, he continues to visit the children’s house -everyday. LOUWSE THE MOUSE GET OUT OF MY HOUSE.

What can be more fun than Mr. Walrus driving around town in an old school bus, but Mr. Walrus knows he can't be late: he has a five o'clock date. MR. WALRUS AND THE OLD SCHOOL BUS.

RILEY THE RHINOCEROS gives rides to baby animals in the jungle, but he can't give rides to all the grown-up animals because that would be preposterous. 


SLY THE DRAGONFLY tells his friends, "You can fly with droopy wings, close your eyes, not see anything or you can fly so high you touch the sky, because life is the way you fly".

Coming soon: LOUWSE THE MOUSE IN THE BIG-APPLE TREE (Rockefeller Ctr. New York City)

Animalations ebook/apps are available for download on iTunes (iPad, iPhone and iPod), for $2.99. Watch for $.99 specials. Language skills sizzle and neurons fire in the brain as children experience 'multi-sensory' stimulation in each Animalations ebook/app.

Media Contact: Patricia Derrick Animalations.com, 702-804-1112, animalations@gmail.com

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Animalations will soon have it's own page, in the itunes store, to allow young readers around the world to purchase Animalations Apps. What an exciting time this is. The first Animalations itunes app. is available today- free. Just open up the itunes store, search for MR. WALRUS AND THE OLD SCHOOL BUS, and download this app: FREE, around the world. I wish to emphasize FREE AROUND THE WORLD because Animalations apps are a perfect way for children (and adults) around the world, to learn English.

Let me explain. Words in a song are so much easier to learn than trying to read a book. This is because words in a song include rhythm, rhyme and patterns. Once the learner is able to sing the song, he/she is able to sing along in the book, even if the learner is a non-reader or non-English speaking. At this point there is an unforgettable A-HA moment for the learner, "I can read this story". What a wonderful moment this is for children and adults.

The combination of music and language provides a strong stimulus in the brain that helps make stronger connections between neurons. Of course, connections are called: synapase. With stronger neuron connections, learning comes easier for children and adults.

Finally, Animalations books are available as interactive itunes apps for ipads and soon will be downloadable on iphones. And..... before long, available on Android phones. Watch for Animalations page on itunes in a week or so(first week in August 2011).

The first 4 apps are:

MR. WALRUS AND THE OLD SCHOOL BUS (free)

RILEY THE RHINOCEROS ($2.99)

SLY THE DRAGONFLY ($2.99)

CASSANDRA THE COW IS IN STRAWBERRY HEAVEN ($2.99)

Apps. coming in September 2011 are:

LOUWSE THE MOUSE GET OUT OF MY HOUSE ($2.99)

GOOSE WITH THE DROOPY WING ($2.99)

Please review the apps on itunes. It means so much to us.

Also, don't forget the free booklet on animalations.com:

111 WAYS TO JUMP-START YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING

This booklet is a compilation of proven, Montessori School tested and exciting ways to help your child receive a jump-start in learning.

Welcome to the Animalations Safari into reading, Patricia Derrick

DOWNLOAD FREE APP:

MR. WALRUS AND THE OLD SCHOOL BUS

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Download this wonderful new, interactive app and then tell us how you like it on:

Mr. Walrus itunes page.

Download includes: READ TO ME, PLAY FOR ME, I CAN READ

Touch the animals and they will talk to you. Try it today.