Has anyone seen Cowleen?

"A wonderfully illustrated story in which children can both read and create" - Format Familial

"The application entertains children, and parents find it incredible" - Voir.ca

"It will make you want to read every moment of the day!" - TPL Mom

"A fascinating creative proposition" - La Souris Grise

"The illustrations are beautiful, refined, and well-researched. The sounds are friendly, and the the navigation intuitive. and good humour is sprinkled on as part of mix" - La Webeuse

Prizes

*** Mitacs & NRC-IRAP Award *** NUMIX Award - Convergence Production - Youth, entertainment and medias *** Research Prize of the National Research Council Canada *** Grand prix Boomerang 2016: Website or App - fiction, diversity (ou variety), humor, and youth *** Grand prix Artisan 2016: Fonfon Interactive - Jannick Lachapelle, Caroline Allard and Benoit Dutrizac

Meet Cowleen, her calf and all their farm friends – and have fun making up your own stories!

A sad little calf on a farm in the country cries to himself. His mother Cowleen is nowhere to be found. What can he do to pass the time until she returns? His barnyard buddies come up with a string of jokes and jibes to put a smile back on his face. But can the duck’s yuks, the pig’s digs, the lamb’s slams, the chick’s shtick and the goat’s quotes get the calf to laugh?

The application offers :

− An enriched book, including animations, sound effects, prerecorded narration and interactions; − A creation platform, allowing users to create their own books while having loads of fun!

Without time limit, the application has an ergonomy and a design specifically conceived for young users, and offers infitine opportunities of family shared moments. To bring everywhere!

MAJOR CARACTERISTICS

Interactive enriched book

− Original illustrations and texts − Original music − 2 modes : with and without prerecorded narration − Highlighting of the words while listening to the prerecorded narration − Mini-games − Multiple interactions provoking sounds and animations − Collect of visual elements to be used in the creation platform

Creation platform

− Create up to 5 books of 10 pages maximum, allowing to edit along the way − Choose backgrounds, characters and objects in a visual database of illustrations from the enriched book − Change the size, rotate and place the visuals − Record your voice − Add text − Choose a cover among three options − Add a title and an author name

ABOUT FONFON

This Fonfon application is a production of La Boîte à Pitons, a Montreal-based company specializing in creative reading experiences for children, parents and educators. The applications have been developped in collaboration with AKUFEN studio, and with the pedogogical input of education specialists of the University of Québec in Montréal. Their production has been made possible thanks to the support of the Canadian Media Fund and the MITACS Acceleration program.

Optimized for iPad 3+, iPad Mini 2+, iPad Air+.