Charlie Brown Christmas Free eBook App

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Today's free app for the Kindle Fire is a really fun and festive interactive ebook app that recreates the classic animated short as a digital pop-up book. The story is narrated by Peter Robbins, the voice of the original Charlie Brown character, with additional dialogue from the original TV feature. The digitally remastered illustrations appear as beautifully rendered pop-up cutouts, all of which can be interacted with in various ways to enhance the story, triggering character-specific dialogue and actions such as opening a mailbox or throwing down a megaphone.

Other features include a paint can that lets you finger paint on the screen, a lesson that teaches you to play Jingle Bells on Schroeder's piano, and a game in which you decorate a Christmas tree. Snowflakes can be caught and stars sent shooting across the sky with musical accompaniment. The final choral singalong allows you to add additional vocal notes by tapping each character, causing them to join in with the carol. Along the way there are twelve special ornaments to collect which are hidden among the scenes, with one being "unlocked" each day in a countdown to Christmas; collecting all of them rewards you with a "spectacular prize" at the end, and since there are only two days left till Christmas, all but one of the ornaments can now be found. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to find the last of them and discover what surprise is revealed.

The ebook app was created by Loud Crow, the makers of the award-winning PopOut! Tale of Peter Rabbit. Both for kids and kids-at-heart this richly illustrated storybook is sure to bring much joy and kindle inner warmth this Christmas season.