Horrible Hauntings: An Augmented Reality Collection of Ghosts and Ghouls - Hardcover

Yim Bridges, Shirin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1937463990 ISBN 13: 9781937463991

Publisher: Goosebottom Books, 2012

Synopsis

This exciting new book brings to life—quite literally—10 famous hauntings from the annals of history. Using interactive augmented reality to enhance the images on the pages, readers are able to see and interact with 3-D ghosts, which appear to come alive and can be manipulated by the viewer. Lush illustrations of famous historical hauntings introduce readers to some of the most notorious and chilling ghosts throughout the ages. The Headless Horseman, the Flying Dutchman, Bloody Mary, the Amherst Poltergeist, and the princes in the Tower of London are some of the eerie apparitions that inhabit this book in a totally new way as readers interact with the illustrations on the pages.

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About the Author

Shirin Yim Bridges is the award-winning author of Ruby’s Wish, The Umbrella Queen, and the Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses series. She lives in Foster City, California. William Maughan is an accomplished commercial illustrator whose work has appeared in magazines, children’s books, and ad campaigns. He is the director of Graduate Studies in Fine Art Painting and Illustration at the Academy of Art University–San Francisco. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

From Booklist

There are plenty of books about ghosts. But how many actually contain ghosts? This experimental project pairs a print book with a free app readers must download onto a smartphone or tablet with a front-facing camera. It’s worth it. The book itself is fairly straightforward: each spread introduces a ghost from history using an exciting narrative-style paragraph followed by an account of the facts or legends. The opposite page, however, is a moody scenery painting—a cobwebbed hallway, a dark forest. By positioning your screen above this illustration, a ghost rises from the page in full, rotational, three-dimensional glory, complete with creepy music and effects. It can be hugely startling. Take, for example, the skeletons of the children killed by Richard III, who prance around after a ball that you flick with your finger. Or the headless horseman who barrels out from the page on his horse. Or the spectral black dogs that bark at you if you edge too close. Use is naturally limited because of the tech—but, wow, will this ever spook some kiddos! Grades 3-6. --Daniel Kraus

Edition details

• Publisher: Goosebottom Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1937463990
• ISBN 13: 9781937463991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Maughan William