Buenos Aires, Argentina – Fifty years after the publication of LOVE, by Italian artist Gian Berto Vanni, the classic illustrated masterpiece has returned as a delightful and interactive app that explores issues of tolerance, understanding and the human ability to love in spite of our differences. The new digital edition – developed by Argentine storytelling studio Nino – offers a fresh and innovative take on the original tale while maintaining its characteristic simplicity.
Now, "Love, The App" has been selected winner of the BolognaRagazzi Digital Award 2014, in the Fiction category, by the prestigious Bologna Children's Book Fair.
"It was easy to love this app – tremendous digital imagination and inventiveness applied to a book which celebrates the textures and trickery of paper, and the power of vulnerable simplicity and visual poetry," said the international jury chaired by Warren Buckleitner. "Love, The App" competed against 257 other entries received from 37 countries.
From beginning to end, "Love, The App" creates a magical animated environment, set to an original soundtrack that submerges the reader into the true essence of love and compassion.
LOVE's universal message has overwhelmed readers for half a century. Italian artist Gian Berto Vanni first published the book in France in 1964. Its original 5,000 copies sold out almost immediately. LOVE was a book with a unique concept and the author was considered one of the first illustrators to experiment with animated storytelling.
And now with "Love, The App," children of all ages can enjoy the true value of LOVE, anytime, anywhere. The app has been featured in the top 5 of Books and Kids categories in the iTunes Store and is available for iPad.
Love, The App 1.0.1 is $4.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Books category. For promotional access to review "Love, The App," or to schedule interviews with author Gian Berto Vanni or Nino Creative Director Pablo Curti, please contact Lucila Oberst.
Nino is a studio of developers and producers who believe that good stories are truly transformative. Nino creates narratives that enrapture and amaze kids big and small. As a new brand unit of Happy Together Contenidos, a content marketing agency with offices in Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, Nino Studio develops and publishes projects of their own, and in alliance with other authors and publishers. Nino is focused on creating stories for mobile platforms. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2014 Nino Studio. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.