Posts tagged: The Earth

As our favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson says, all kids are natural born scientists; they learn by digging holes in the ground and picking up rocks to see what’s under them.

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Our planet and the challenge of protecting it are huge. To fit it all in one app, we reveal one invisible mystery at a time. 

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Celebrate Earth Day with us! Get The Earth and download the Love the Earth in-app purchase to support WWF.

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As we dug into all of the incredible ways our planet changes over time for our newest app, The Earth, we became particularly interested in volcanoes. The more we learned, the more we wanted to know. Some of what we uncovered made it into the app and handbook. Here are a few things we (reluctantly!) had to leave out:

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Our newest app, The Earth, lets kids discover our dynamic planet: from its fiery core to frozen glaciers. While we make sure to get the facts right in every Explorer’s Library app, we like to take a good look at all sides of a subject’s story. As Sarah Jacoby notes in her interview, fiction also plays an important role in helping us bring our apps to life.

Here are a few of our favorite finds, both informational and fantastical, from our dig into our planet:

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The illustrator who created the artwork for our newest app, The Earth (which we think is pretty gorgeous; we’re biased but we’re not the only ones), has drawn for the New York Times, Travel + Leisure, and Pitchfork. On top of all that, she joins us at Tinybop HQ every day as a production designer. Here, the talented (if we do say so ourselves) Sarah Jacoby shares a little bit about her process, inspiration, and of course, her favorite kids’ books.

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The fifth app in our award-winning series, the Explorer’s Library, The Earth, is ready to play!

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