article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources wanderful interactive storybooks news newspapers books scholar jstor free images march 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message wanderful inc. founded 2010 headquarters novato california key people mickey w. mantle mark schlichting products interactive storybook apps website www.wanderfulstorybooks.com wanderful interactive storybooks is a developer of interactive storybook apps based on the titles originally published as living books by broderbund software . the company was founded in 2010 by mickey w. mantle who oversaw the original living books technology development as vice president of engineering and chief technical officer at br derbund . 1 mantle ceo of wanderful assembled a small team of the original br derbund programmers to create a new engine that could take the animation graphics sound and music from the original living books cd roms and play them back at full screen resolution on the ipad using a touch rather than a mouse driven interface . 2 mark schlichting creator 3 of the living books series joined the team as chief creative officer and developed touch driven updates to the original mouse driven interface . through a number of corporate mergers the publisher houghton mifflin harcourt had acquired the rights to the living books titles and content . 4 wanderful secured the rights from hmh to republish the new and updated titles and concurrently negotiated rights with many of the authors of the individual stories that became living books . contents 1 titles 2 educational elements 3 references 4 external links titles edit wanderful has so far released the following titles as ios apps in order by release date arthur s teacher trouble english and spanish by marc brown author little monster at school english and spanish by mercer mayer tortoise and the hare english and spanish an aesops fable harry and the haunted house english and spanish by mark schlichting berenstain bears get in a fight english and spanish by stan and jan berenstain wanderful storybook sampler english arthur s birthday english and spanish by marc brown author berenstain bears in the dark english by stan and jan berenstain ruff s bone english and spanish by eli noyes the new kid on the block english by jack prelutsky illustrated by james stevenson stellaluna english and portuguese by janell cannon educational elements edit wanderful has created classroom activities guides for each of the story apps . 5 the activities in the guides are aligned with the common core state standards initiative . 6 references edit rose michael october 8 2012 . br derbund s living books return for ipad via wanderful . retrieved 29 march 2013 . rose michael . br derbund s living books return for ipad via wanderful . tuaw.com . retrieved 29 march 2013 . burdick katherine . interview with mark schlichting . ear.org . education apps review . retrieved 29 march 2013 . greenfield jeremy june 18 2012 . vintage enhanced e books for your hip kids living books back to life . digital book world . retrieved 30 march 2013 . jones gwyneth . just wanderful living books are back . the daring librarian . retrieved 29 march 2013 . catalano frank . going retro reading apps for real books . kqed mind shift . retrieved 29 march 2013 . external links edit the return of living books harry and the haunted house for ios gets it right david winograd mac observer br derbund s classic living books series comes to ios stephen noonoo t.h.e. journal going retro reading apps for real books blog post at kqed mindshift just wanderful living books are back the daring librarian interview with mark 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