you're want to buy The Pirate Koostoe (Tales of Midlandia) [Paperback],yes ..! you comes at the right place. you can get special discount for
The Pirate Koostoe (Tales of Midlandia) [Paperback].You can choose to buy a product and The Pirate Koostoe (Tales of Midlandia) [Paperback] at the Best Price Online with Secure Transaction
Here... 
other Customer Rating: 
Price: $7.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details
Special Offers Available
read more Details The Pirate Koostoe iPad app approved by Apple. Will be onsale in the App Store on 12/20/11.
The Pirate Koostoe: Top New Interactive Storybook App for iPad - Top Picks!
The Pirate Koostoe is a beautiful interactive story book app with a great story and a wonderful message about treasures! A brand new iPad book app featuring stunning artwork, custom music, audio narration and various interactive features… A great idea if Santa brings and iPad under the Christmas tree!
The Pirate Koostoe: top interactive iPad book App... a new Top Picks from Fun Educational Apps!
The Pirate Koostoe is a charming storybook for iPad and part of the "Tales of Midlandia” children book series. The first of a wonderful collection that offers humour, engaging and enriching stories for our little ones.
The Pirate Koostoe by Michael Scotto is the story of a little Midlandian with a big dream. He wants to be a pirate to find treasures... being a pirate is not that easy and things don’t really work out as planned. Being a pirate can make him do things that are not really nice and founding beautiful treasures? … A dream till the day Koostoe learns that he doesn't have to be a pirate to find treasures. Treasures can be a lot more than gold and shiny stuff!
What Fun Educational Apps Liked!
The Pirate Koostoe is first a beautiful story with a wonderful message about moral and values that teaches our kids that sometimes what you want the most can be just around the corner!
It is a top quality storybook app for iPad and offers all the prerequisites to be classified as Best App for kids. It presents top quality animated illustration and artwork, touch-and teach interactive elements to increase vocabulary, and text highlights to support and develop early reading skills. It can be read 3 ways: “read-to-me”, “read-to-myself”, and “auto-play” a feature that we always like.
The kids at Fun Educational Apps really liked the story and found the illustrations, animations and interactive features splendid. They also enjoyed the open ended questions at the end of the book apps. It allowed them to think about the story and its message and to made them think about the future and what they would like to be. We had a nice discussion.
With this first storybook app for iPad, Midlandia Press goal was “to get children excited about reading … by offering creative and innovative products … that have high standards of quality for the stories and the illustrations." I would say mission accomplished!
Overall, The Pirate Koostoe is an impressive storybook app: great story, illustration, custom music. It engages the kids and teaches a great lesson. It offers the right amount of interactive features; just enough to keep the kids engaged without distracting them from the story … well I could go on .. but highly recommend that you check it out.
--funeducationalapps.com
Pirate Koostoe is an interactive storybook app which will entertain young children while letting them learn some things along the way. The story itself also imparts some life values which they can easily pick up. Parents can also join in the storybook app experience by talking with their children about the “questions for discussion” found at the end of the story.
--Iheartthisapp.com
There is an endless number of children’s storybook apps for the iPad, and adding another to my arsenal on our device always takes some thinking. But when I was asked to review The Pirate Koostoe, I jumped at the chance. It just looked great. Thankfully it lived up to my expectations.
The Pirate Koostoe is not the most “interactive” storybook for kids with movable objects everywhere on every page, but it sure does a great job of animating the elements and telling a great story, and making it interesting as well. This is nice, as sometimes all that interaction really takes away from the story, and in fact would have does so here. The artwork is wonderful, the music is perfect, and the narration (if you choose to use it) is spot on. The app offers a lot in terms of education too. It has the touch words/objects to help with vocabulary, and text highlighting to encourage the learning of reading skills. And even better, there are end-of-story discussion questions for young readers to talk about what they’ve read and learned.
The story is of a little Midlandian with a dream to become a pirate and find treasure. It’s not as easy as he thinks, and being a pirate isn’t all its cracked up to be. Along his journey Koostoe learns a valuable lesson, that not all treasures are riches and gold…that sometimes the greatest treasures are right in front of us.
The Pirate Koostoe is a top app in the children’s storybook genre. It is amazingly well produced, and offers a little bit of everything for children. My kids can’t wait to find out more about these Midlandian’s, and as a parent I’m 100% comfortable letting them enjoy this new world.
--theipadfan.com
The Pirate Koostoe is a lovely digital storybook for the iPad that fosters positive values and explores early career possibilities based on life-long interests. This high-quality picturebook app has our family eager to explore more of Midlandia and its’ life lessons in future app releases.
appsforhomeschooling.com
Ahh to be a child again, wishing for adventure, imagining the life of an astronaut, a ballerina or a pirate. Little Koostoe (pronounced like the famous ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau) wants to be a pirate, too.
Join him as he goes on his own adventure and learns what it is like to find real treasure in this interactive children’s book.
The app acts less like a book and more like an animated story as each page seems to come to life. The angle of each image changes as the story progresses. Some pages will zoom out to show a full shot of the story’s action. Others will have additional animation that can be discovered when tapped.
The story itself is what makes the book so special. It is original and interesting without being awkward or overdone. It is the perfect story for young ones who like adventure. The moral is easy to understand and important for life.
--padgadget.com
Midlandia Press goes digital with release of first iPad app
Digital storybook provides interactive, engaging reading experience
BEAVER, Pa. /Dec. 20, 2011/— Midlandia Press, a growing publishing company specializing in juvenile fiction, announced Tuesday the release of its first storybook app for the iPad.
“Midlandia Press is thrilled to announce the release of our first app. While we firmly believe that the print market for children’s books has a strong future, we are excited about exploring the new options available for interactive stories on devices like the iPad,” said Midlandia Press managing editor, Kellie Hamilton. “Our primary goal is to get children excited about reading and we hope to do so by offering creative and innovative products in both markets that have high standards of quality for the stories and the illustrations.”
The Pirate Koostoe app for the iPad is a digital storybook featuring custom music, audio and special effects designed to give children a reading experience they will want to relive again and again. Designed by a team of writers, artists and developers with a background in children’s education, The Pirate Koostoe for iPad app combines rich, detailed illustrations, thoughtful storytelling and immersive activity to engage readers of all ages.
Click here to watch the trailer for The Pirate Koostoe app
“At Midlandia Press, we’re not just looking to entertain our young readers. We want to educate and engage—and this app allows us to do just that,” said Hamilton. “To help develop early reading skills, each word of the story in The Pirate Koostoe app is highlighted as it is read. The digital storybook can be enjoyed three ways—read-to-me, read-to-myself, and auto-play, making it ideal for all reading levels. Additionally, the app features interactive touch-and teach elements and end-of-story discussion questions that encourage the reader to reflect on the story and its lesson.”
Other features of the app include:
-Animation and highlighted interactive touch elements
-Pan and zoom effects on the page to guide the eye and accentuate the story
-Story narration by the author
-Nearly a dozen original music themes
The Pirate Koostoe is part of the “Tales of Midlandia” children’s book series, a wonderful collection of humorous, enriching and thought-provoking stories available through Midlandia Press. Each story features gorgeous, colorful artwork and deals with universal concepts and social situations that are relatable to any young child. The first five books in the “Tales of Midlandia” Series, including The Pirate Koostoe, will be available in bookstores beginning January 31, 2012.
Now on sale in the Apple App Store, The Pirate Koostoe for the iPad is available for the next two weeks at the introductory price of $.99. Afterwards, it will be available for $2.99.
Josh Perry, director of app development for Midlandia Press, said the company is currently adapting other stories in the “Tales of Midlandia” series for the iPad and hopes to release more offerings from the series in the coming months. “With ‘Tales of Midlandia’ on the iPad, we can offer an extra dimension of liveliness to the series, while still staying true to its storybook roots. The sights, sounds, and interactive elements of the apps allow parents and children to experience ‘Tales of Midlandia’ in a more direct and personal manner, while facilitating teachable moments in the stories with much more immediacy.”
Visit us online at www.midlandiapress.com.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MidlandiaPress
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MidlandiaPress
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/MidlandiaPress
Title: The Pirate Koostoe
Publisher: National Network of Digital Schools Corp.
Release date: December 20, 2011
Price: $2.99
Background: Young Koostoe is a little Midlandian with a big dream: he wants to be a pirate. While things don't work out as planned, Koostoe learns that he doesn't have to be a pirate to find treasure all around him.
Features: Custom music, audio, and special effects. Each word is highlighted as it is read. Read to me, read to myself, and auto play modes.
Twenty-eight year old Michael Scotto has worked as a filmmaker, a saxophone player and an engineer's assistant, but his true passion has always been writing. He earned a degree in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, and he received his M.F.A in Dramatic Writing there in 2007. Today, Mr. Scotto is the author of over twenty picture books for young readers. Latasha and the Little Red Tornado is his first novel. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking and photography. In 2011, Scotto was honored as one of the "Pittsburgh 40 Under 40," which recognizes difference makers in the Western Pennsylvania region. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife.
