Tag: Millie and Bombassa

Learn how to colour in Bombassa!

• April 4, 2013 • Be first to comment!

ColourInBombassaSmallMillie and Bombassa are on the iTunes Store.
This video shows you how to colour-in Bombassa the loveable rhino that is the hero of Shoo’s Millie and Bombassa books.

Learn how to draw Bombassa here:

Watch Shoo tell a Bombassa story here:

How to Draw Bombassa

• April 4, 2013 • 1 Comment

DrawBombassaSmallMillie and Bombassa are on the iTunes Store.
This video is about How to draw Bombassa the loveable rhino that is the hero of my Millie and Bombassa books. You Can watch me tell a Millie and Bombassa story here:

Millie and Bombassa iBooks go live on iTunes!

• May 18, 2012 • 2 Comments

I’ve been waiting weeks for Millie and Bombassa Dizzy DIY to be approved on the iTunes iBook Store and today it has gone live. And then, after just a few days, the second Millie and Bombassa book, Air Scare, has gone live to. My cup runneth over and I feel joy abounding!! Click the pictures to go to the iBooks store.

Bombassa is a lazy but loveable rhino. Millie is a sensible but sweet bird. Together they make a great pair!

These stories have consistently been at the top of my Library borrowing statistics as they are read again and again. I know they are much loved. I love Bombassa – He’s kind of my grumpy, don’t want to get out of bed side of me, while Millie is the side of me that sees me still working at quarter to 11 on a Friday night!

You Can see me reading the Dizzy DIY here.

Each story contains a drawing video and a quiz, and Dizzy DIY has a video showing you how to make an origami box.

If you like these books, please leave a comment on iTunes. It really does help.

Dizzy DIY – a Millie & Bombassa story

• April 15, 2012 • 1 Comment

Now on iPad now from the iTunes Store.
Watch Shoo Rayner tell one of his favourite stories about dozy, lazy Bombassa and bright sparky Millie. Auntie Daz is coming to tea and she thinks Bombassa has been in bed all day!

The Dizzy DIY iBook work continues

• March 13, 2012 • Be first to comment!

I’ve been so busy the last two weeks, visiting schools for World Book Day, that’ my progress on the Dizzy DIY iBook for iPad has been really held up. Held up so much and I find school visits so exhausting, that I’ve decided to give up school visits for the foreseeable future.

In the video I’m making another video to show how to make origami boxes, like the ones Millie and Bombassa make for Auntie Daz when she comes round for tea. I just need to make another video of how to draw Millie and make an intro sequence and I can start putting the iBook to bed.

I’ve also been working out how to get my ISBN numbers registered and seem to have that sorted. More in the next video.

Recording the Dizzy DIY story time video for iPad

• February 22, 2012 • 9 Comments

I must be mad doing this, but I really feel that ibooks, because of what they can do, should have added value, additional content. I’m trying adding a story reading in a video at the end. As this is a reader – with which I want children to learn to read, I’m not adding audio as you read or bouncy letters as you read along. I think that is entertainment and hinders the very difficult and and strenuous job of learning to read.

I’m adding another video explaining where the ideas came from and how to make origami paper plates that are featured in the book. ( I always loved the origami pages in Rupert annuals!)

I should probably use a script, but I’m a seat of the pants kind of guy, so you watch the process of building up the right introduction sequence.

In the meantime you can get the Ginger Ninja at the iBook store for your iPad at the following addresses.

UK Store       US Store     Australian Store     Canadadian Store     Irish Store 

Dizzy DIY – my iPublishing story continues

• February 21, 2012 • 8 Comments

I’m continuing my ibooks publishing adventure with Dizzy DIY – one of my Millie and Bombassa series. They never sold as well as I thought it would but they do really well in libraries. I think the, young hippos series design didn’t really help!

My friend Renita Boyle, from Wigtown in Scotland, thinks I should do Jackanory style videos of me reading the story built into the iBook. It’s something I’ve been thinking of doing for while, maybe I should try it out in this series and see how it goes. I’ll have to set up a studio story corner and get the lights camera angles sorted out!

In the meantime you can get the Ginger Ninja at the iBook store for your iPad at the following addresses.

UK Store       US Store     Australian Store     Canadadian Store     Irish Store 

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