David Drew - our third acquisition

We are happy to let you know that a blue sequel to our pink story of Lindy Lee called 'David Drew Likes Blue' by J.S.Kittinger and S.Hallett is live as of Friday. The history behind this book is slightly different from the other ones, usually we get a manuscript from an author and we either like it, or not. This time, we had a manuscript of Lindy Lee by Jo and it organically came out that we cannot have only stories about girls (and unfortunately the major part of kids stories are about little girls) and only for girls and that we have to have boyish stories on our menu too. As sexist as this might sound, try to say your six year old boy that you will be reading about a girl who loves pink before bedtime. We know our onions. 

So we asked Jo to write a similar poem either about blue or green colors. And we liked more the blue one with David Drew. We hired the same illustrator, Sonya from Great Britain, to make pictures so that it was clear from the first sight that these two books make a pair. I have to say that I am really happy with the result, they look cute next to each other, thanks to both artists. For more info about the writer and the illustrator you might want to visit their websites (respectively http://www.jokittinger.com/ and http://bonzaialsatian.deviantart.com/gallery/).

 

On a different topic, we started with three short stories which are now spent. Next time we are bringing longer stories where there are not only picture pages but also text pages - always one picture followed by a text page. Their names are - Andie Plays Pretend, Mike Rides his Bike to School, Falling Leaves and Foolish Brothers, Lizzie and the Phone Call. And we are tenaciously working on and on. There is a lot to expect :)

If you would like to have access to our children books line, go to our website www.okenkobooks.com  for subscription options. So far, we run on Android phones, but our service is coming to i-devices in few weeks, stay with us.

Off we go - Okenko Books launch for Androids (letter to our editor)

Hi Michelle,
please find below few points we think that are the most significant for Okenko Books children books subscription line (and site) launch and need to be at the core of our press release.

The Okenko Books app is launched for Androids only now, iphone/itouch/ipad support will follow soon.

The Okenko Books app is free on the Android Market and offers one free story for the starters, Lindy Lee Loves Pink by Jo S. Kittinger and Sonya Hallett.

 

Okenko Books offer a unique subscription model based on micro-payments via PayPal, every two weeks a new story will be downloaded directly to your phone. With one subscription you can have registered as many as 5 devices. We hope that parents will appreciate hassle-free-ness of our subscription.

All published books are contained in one Okenko Books app and once they were downloaded they are accessible offline at any time and stay on the user's device even after the subscription ends.

Our first story is called Lindy Lee Loves Pink and a boy version of this short rhyming story is coming in few weeks to your phone, as well as a funny comics called Sip'n'Cup Go for Vacation.

All our stories, they cannot be found anywhere else, they are based on author texts and complemented with traditional illustrations. We do not reproduce hard-cover books.

Our intention is to stay as near to the book medium as possible so we do not offer any distracting interactive features and games, we keep things simple - just text and pictures. Our books must be read, either by a budding reader or by his older fellow.

The subscription, sales and customer services are managed via our website at www.okenkobooks.com.

Reviewers/editors/bloggers can ask for a promocode for one month subscription directly at jitka at okenko dot com.

We hope that kids and their families will enjoy Okenko Books.

Thanks and regards, Jitka