Robots and Cupcakes has YoPoweR!

We've been lucky enough to be introduced to and work with YoMagination Wellness & Education®, a wonderful client that has produced a completely amazing program called Kids YoPoweR!. It teaches children to develop a positive sense of personal wellness, self expression and empowerment through yoga poses, memorable characters, healthy eating, playing and positive thinking!

The program uses locations on The Island of YoMagination to teach life lessons and relaxation techniques to be used for real life situations that can cause anxiety, such as meeting new people and trying new things.

We're currently creating an iPad app for them to introduce the Kids YoPoweR! program, to be released in August. It's going to be a very soothing, visual introduction to The Island of YoMagination and a few of it's inhabitants. Want to know what "Tiggily Wiggilys" and "Oogily Boogilys" are? Check back soon for a sneak peek, before the app is released!

Robots and Cupcakes presenting at AEP

It it with great honor (and extreme excitement!) to announce that Robots and Cupcakes has been asked to present alongside SMART Technologies in June at the Association of Educational Publishers Content in Context Conference in Washington D.C.!

We will be doing a 20-minute presentation of our work on June 7th, talking about converting printed content to digital (particularly to the interactive white board and table), and answering questions.

This coincidentally helped us get in for the entire 3-day conference, something our little company hasn't had the chance to do yet! We're looking forward to meeting all of you and checking out the latest products!

World Book Day in the UK and Ireland

Happy World Book Day to those of you in the UK and Ireland!

In honor of this, FunEducationalApps.com has named The Mixed-Up Wacky Zoo one of the top five best storybook apps for kids!

Check it out here!

A reminder to check out the MomsWithApps...app!

I wanted to post another reminder to check out the MomsWithApps app for your iPhone, iTouch, or iPad!

This wonderful app is a constant catalog of family-approved apps! Apps for traveling with your kids, apps for first aid, apps for organizing your day, apps FOR your kid! Everything is easily categorized so you can find exactly what you need quickly. (Like our apps!) ;p

Check it out. ...Right now it's FREE!

Happy March!

Whew! We made it through February. What a rush! Lots of things changing out there in the publishing world...

We're on to revising our promo kit and website, so look for those to both be available soon!

A few more items in the queue:

• A printed book of our original story, "The Mixed-Up Wacky Zoo", to be available on LuLu.com (and possibly Amazon). I'll post a link to that/those as soon it's/they're ready!
• A wonderful interactive photo and video storybook for iPad – but first, the client will be raising money for it on kickstarter.com. I'll post a link as soon as that's up, too!
• A few apps for the Android platform!
• A gallery show at Northern Ohio University in late March by Phil Jones, talented illustrator of our "Zoo" app. He'll be showcasing the story as well as his own amazing art!

Keep close for updates...

Busy, busy!

Wow! We've definitely started off 2011 right! While we're engulfed in print and digital work, we've completed a good handful of quotes for more mobile work; a very good sign for the future. We're also in the middle of getting The Mixed-Up Wacky Zoo in print form. (It's going to be beautiful!)

We're also very, very excited about the success many schools are having while testing with iPads. It's been going on for the last two months, and they're having amazing results! I read today that the Georgia State Senate is considering moving all schools in this direction. This is awesome news for us, because we're completely set and ready to move along with it! Here's a link to the article.

We really hope this continues everywhere- there's nothing more satisfying than taking print and moving it into digital form! It's an art form in a way– a very thoughtful, exciting process that we've been working with for a year now.

Speaking of: It's almost Robots and Cupcakes' one year anniversary! Even though all of us have been in this field for most of our life employment, coming together in one place and growing in whatever personal direction we choose has worked out beautifully. And this is only the first year! Some of our production people are also stop-motion animators, After Effects wizards, Flash animators– we even have a professional traditional animator on our team. I'd love to put all of that to good use in the upcoming year!

We hope you all are doing well, and having a successful 2011 yourself!

Special "Zoo" review by PadGadget.com

PadGaget.com has put a spotlight on yet another one of our apps!

Read the review HERE.

Moms with apps (as well as dads, teachers and more...) =)

Robots and Cupcakes is a proud member of Momswithapps.com, a site dedicated to digging through all the miscellaneous digital funk out there and hand-selecting only the highest quality of fun, educational, kid and family-friendly apps.

They provide feature stories written by parents, teachers and developers, who discuss educational trends as well as needs, and highlight the newest and brightest apps available, for any mobile device.

Be sure to also visit them at the end of every week on "App Friday", where they list apps that have been dropped to $.99 or even free, just for that day!

In the near future, they will be releasing their very own app, which will categorize and break down the details of approved family apps all in one place, making it super easy for parents to find exactly what they're looking for at any time!

Check out Momswithapps.com HERE.
Join them on Facebook HERE.

Ready for the New Year?

We’re all ready for the New Year and are kicking it off with our first interactive storybook, The Mixed-Up Wacky Zoo! It’s now available for sale for iPad, and soon to be available in PRINT, so you can also enjoy it in it's traditional, loving, paper form.  =)


We have soooooo much going on already this year– it's going to be a very exciting 2011 for sure! Keep a close eye on us; we've moving FAST!

The Mixed-Up Wacky Zoo is available in iTunes!

Apple is all fired up for the new year! After submitting our first storybook for the iPad only 5 days ago, it has already been reviewed and is now available in the iTunes store!

Check it out here!

It came out so soon, we didn't even have enough time to complete a introductory video! We'll have that available very soon.

The Mixed-Up Wacky Zoo is an interactive story for kids 3 and up. Rob Spence wrote the story, which is about a boy who witnesses a crazy parade of animals out of nowhere! Each page refers to what the group of animals is called (a tower of giraffes, a pod of whales, a bloat of hippos), with fun, colorful descriptions of all the eccentric characters. Fun for kids and adults!

The art is traditionally drawn (by Phil Jones), and the music was specifically written for this story (by Rick Hinkle). As you flip through each page, touching the characters brings them to life as they animate and let out their own funny sounds. There's also a lot of humor in there for parents as well, as you'll find a few references from back when you were young. =)

We hope you enjoy! This is our first story out of many coming down the line. We're experimenting with all sort of styles, options and music, to offer whimsical, creative visuals and stimulating reading. We can't wait to show you more!