Mr Wolf in the top ten best buy App in Italy!

This week Mr Wolf is in the top ten best buy Apps in Italy! Yay!

BlueQuoll in the Courier mail

Today BlueQuoll and Mr. Wolf are in the CourierMail Yay!

transcript of the story:

WHAT if Little Red Riding Hood had a scooter to get to Grandma's house? And how would the fairytale end if Mr Wolf was a vegetarian?

A more modern version of the children's story has been written by Brisbane couple Vincenzo Pignatelli and Lucia Masciullo and to ensure the classic tale appeals to tech-savvy, 21st century children it has been created in digital form only.

With the sounds of birds chirping and against a backdrop of watercolour paintings and pencil drawings of forests Mr Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes can either be read independently or narrated and watched on an iPhone, iPad or iPad Touch.

In the story, an entomologist takes the place of the lumberjack, a game of chess replaces Mr Wolf's attempted assault and the whole cast end up at the home of little "Red-hood" for dinner, her mum cooking a fresh batch of ginger cupcakes.

One screen tap and Brisbane drama teacher Nicky Peelgrane narrates the story. A swipe and independent readers can turn pages themselves. Another touch and switch to Italian, Spanish, Japanese or Chinese.

Pignatelli, a neuroscientist seeking a more creative career, and Masciullo, a biologist with a love of illustrating children's books, are from Taranto in the south of Italy. They moved to Brisbane four years ago when he accepted a research post at the University of Queensland but they have now applied for permanent residency.

Masciullo has already had illustrations published in four children's books in Australia, with Family Forest shortlisted for the 2011 Children's Book Council of Australia picture book award. Pignatelli set up Brisbane's first children's book digital publisher, BlueQuoll, and co-wrote Mr Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes.

Mr. Wolf 4th place top buy in the Italian book section.. and rising

After only two weeks from the release, Mr. Wolf is climbink the ranks in many appstores worldwide. Today Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes is number 4 in the book section of the Italian AppStore under the "top buy" category!!

Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes storybook featured in the World

Today great news for Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes and BlueQuoll team. Our first App has been featured in many places on the iTunes store all around the world! Today Mr. Wolf is featured in the New and noteworthy section in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden for the iPhone.

Plus, Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes is in the "Staff favourites" section on the Australian and New Zealand AppStore!!

Great Sunday morning and it seems that Mr. Wolf is really picking up momentum!

Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcake is AVAILABLE NOW on the App Store

We at BlueQuoll are ecstatic to announce that Mr. Wolf and the Ginger
Cupcakes, a charming Story book App for iPhone®, iPod Touch® and iPad® for
children ages 4 and up is available NOW on the App Store Worldwide!

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

We would like to thank you All for the encouraging comments left on our facebook page! If you bought the App and liked it, please remember to rate on App Store and leave a review if you have time, that would make us really happy!!

BlueQUoll Team

Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes Trailer

We are proud to announce that the new App Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes is going to be released on the AppStore on the 5th of May 2011 for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. We hope you'll enjoy the trailer of our App!

Mr Wolf and the ginger Cupcakes captures the charm of a traditional children's book thanks to its exquisite hand crafted illustrations and transports you and your child in a whimsical world where all sorts of funky characters cohabit in harmony at the sound of dreamy jazz music.

Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes features 32 hand painted illustrations, created using watercolors and colored pencils, carefully digitized to make sure each page maintained a painterly feel on the screens of the iDevices. Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes is a universal App specifically coded to display flawlessly on any iDevice. It is multilingual in a very proactive way. We made intentionally easy to switch on the fly between seven different versions (English, Italian, French, Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Japanese and Spanish) to encourage children and parents to explore the different versions and use the App as a tool for familiarizing with new languages. Mr. Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes has an interface that is simple to use, intuitive and fun and allows a quick and satisfying navigation, without getting in the way of the book experience.

Mr Wolf Developer Diary - Making of The Cover

In this new "behind the scenes" video Lucia is working at the Cover of the story "Mr Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes". This is our upcoming children's book App for iPad and iPhone e revised story based on the immortal classic "little red riding Hood" but way better :)

Lucia is applying the watercolors and then is finishing the paint off with a touch of colored pencil. Enljoy

Developer Diary - MrWolf and the Ginger Cupcakes

This is the first in a series of videos showcasing the backstage of the development of our first children story for iPad and iPhone.

The title of the Children's App is "Mr Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes" and it is a fun take on the classic tale of The Little Red Riding Hood. In this episode we show a brief speed painting showing illustrator Lucia Masciullo creating one of the illustrations used for the full story.

Lucia is painting using watercolors and pastels and the whole thing took more than two hours. Lucia is painting the Enomologist, one of the unusual characters of the story, overhearing the menacing voice of MrWolf coming from poor Grandma's Cottage. Enjoy