PopOut! The Night Before Christmas App Reviews

Make more Ill buy them all!!!

What a fun app! Runs great, lots of little interactive things to touch/pull/slide. Didnt see how to have the pages read at first as it is a little small on the ipod/iphone. Figured it out soon enough.

This is the best application I have bought in any of the childrens classic stories ever! The story was correct, the interactive touching of the screen to touch everything and even hear the sounds, and actions actually transcends you into the book itself, and for adults you will thinking,Wow!, I feel like a child again, and for the adults reading this classic to your children, or grandchildren, well the app will speak for itself. Make sure you touch everything on the page as the story is being read, as well as movement of objects for everything is done in such detail. I would like to see more from this developer. I would buy books without hesitation from the developers. I also wanted to mention the illustrations are amazing, and they transcend you as well. Well done!!! A MUST BUY!

if youveany of this companys books, then you know what to expect. the illustrations bounce and sing as you touch them, and the story is pleasantly narrated. that said, why does an app listed as 156MB in the app store take 600+MB on my iPad? this is a glitch I hope they can fix

Everything about this book is excellent. The illustrations are wonderful, the animations and sound effects are creative, the narration couldnt be better and the music is perfect!

This is one of those neat apps that make you glad you have an iPad.

My daughter loves this book, but it is tiny on the iPhone. She keeps accidentally swiping the wrong things because it is so small.

I really want to like this app. Its a classic story, its beautifully executed, and the interactive parts are fun for all ages. Unfortunately, it crashes. A lot. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. I bought this on my iPad 1 last night, and the app literally crashed on page six. After that, it crashed about every other page. I bought this for my son who really enjoys interactive books, but you can imagine how frustrating it was for him. At one point, the same page crashed literally four times in a row. We had to skip that page in the table of contents and move on. The Night Before Christmas is a short story, but it crashed at least fifteen times while we were trying to read it. The frequency of crashes is so high, that unfortunately I cant recommend this to anyone. This pretty much mirrors my experience with Loud Crows version of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Its beautiful, and I want to like it, but it just crashes too much. If they could solve the crash problems, these would be first-rate apps. To further compound matters, their tech support is seemingly non-existent. I e-mailed them November 27th. I received a canned auto-response the same day, but nothing since then. I sent a follow-up message that didnt even get an auto-reply.

A beautiful story, that has captured the wonder of a book. Why arent all iPod or iPad books like this? No crashes on my iPod.

I am torn, as this is our new favorite version of the story but unfortunately it takes up a very large space on my iPad-i have no idea how they got around this in the app store but the file size is nearly 4x what it states! Maybe for your average user with a 16 GB iPad this isnt a problem, but I am an educator with other specialized communication apps that are naturally space hogs, and your app puts them to shame with its ginormous file size. Fix this and you will have a winning app! I will likely have to uninstall this, as I am having trouble updating other apps due to this space hog, sadly. The story is beautifully done!

I absolutely love this app...and I am a grown-up! The illustrations and sound effects are adorable. The narration and background music are just right, very relaxing. True to the original and with a charming old school pop-up book realism. And at 99 cents this Christmas its a steal! A must download this season!!!

I even had fun playing with all the interactives in this really well-done book. Really one of the best Christmas books I downloaded for my family over the holidays. I highly recommend it!

Holy moly - does it HAVE to be 600MB in size? How about running some jpg compression software or something.

A Victorian Interactive Storybook. We Enjoyed it very much and were even able to figure out the tabs.

Loved the book.

when i try to update this app it doesnt recognize my apple id. All my other (200+) apps recognize it fine. Its not a huge problem, it just forces me to cancel an action multiple times, but its annoying.

My 4 year old loves all the interactive features and we had fun discovering what each of the pages do. Love you loud crowd!

Wonderful app to read or have read to your children! It would have to be explained that the poem was written quite awhile ago and the graphics reflect that. I think as young as 4 years old may be appropriate--the parent must decide. But it can be read in different ways several times so worth the price. A nice gift maybe along with a big, nicely illustrated, hardcover version so they can continue to learn how to read, learn about poetry & storytelling, and thus, learn a bit about the evolution of the (English) written word. I can see where children would get carried away not in the story just making the sounds. Id recommend reading a hard-cover version first; then on another night, as a treat, bring out this version! Theyll be happily surprised! Nice, quality time before bed! A treat for kids of all ages--<wink! wink>! ;)

Bought for my 7 year old granddaughter. She hasnt seen it yet, but Im impressed. Great recreation of the old, classic story. And I think shell love exploring all the touchable objects. Im saving the fifth star for her vote.

Ive had this book for several years and my son loves all the interactive items in the story. The narrator has a wonderful voice and is so pleasant to listen to. One of my most favorite purchases!