The full color ‘Children’s Bible’ app tells the stories of the Old and New Testament in seven different languages and is the first comic book style Bible to be made available to iPhone and iPod Touch users.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain – BCNmultimedia today announced the release of the ‘Children’s Bible’ iPhone and iPod Touch application, a full color comic book rendition of bible stories from the Old and New Testaments of the World English Bible. “While it has become a common occurrence to see worshipers attending their churches with digital versions of the bible on their iPhone’s, up until now that was solely for the adults” said Toni Matas, publishing manager of BCNmultimedia, creators of the app. “We wanted to give the children something that was just as accessible while being entertaining as well.”

Just in time for Christmas, we are offering the story of the First Christmas free with download! The “Birth of Jesus” comic is 24 scenes and tells the story of the angel appearing to Mary, the search for a room at an inn, the birth in a manger and the shepherds visit in stunning full color comics. (Part of the “Land of Nazareth” full comic). Readers can purchase additional packs containing stories and activities from within the application for only $2.99

The first story pack available is “The Land of Nazareth” and contains Over 10 full length bible stories in 144 scenes, rendered in brilliant colors with an easy to navigate interface including:

• Annunciation of the Birth (Included Free with Download)
• Birth of Jesus (Included Free with Download)
• Visit of the Wise Men of the East
• Childhood of Jesus
• Baptism of Jesus
• Temptations of Jesus
• Call of the disciples
• Wedding at Cana
• Sermon on the Mount: the Beatitudes
• Sermon on the Mount: Love the Enemies
• Sermon on the Mount: the Prayer

The iPhone is only the latest media channel to be explored by the 16 year old company, which began producing education and religious text in 1994. Since then they have produced over 75 full length animated features, 50 interactive CD-ROMs  and countless educational comics and text which have been distributed globally.

‘Children’s Bible’ is available as a free download in the iTunes App Store for both iPhone’s and iPod Touch devices using operating system 3.0 or higher.  The application is available in seven languages including  English, Spanish, French, Italian, Deutsch, Portuguese, and Catalan.

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Gorilla Monkey Crunch App Being Found at Holiday Tables Around the Globe

London, UK- Gorillas everywhere are up in arms after word got out that Apple approves of Gorilla Monkey Crunch for Thanksgiving. “I’m British!” said Günter, the highly persecuted Gorilla in mention. “We don’t even celebrate Thanksgiving!”. While the local Monkey delegation could not be reached, officials reported small primate riots breaking out all over America and angry monkeys throwing coconuts at anything that moved.  Apple had no comment on the matter.

No one is sure exactly what the recipe for Gorilla Monkey Crunch actually is, but rumors abound that it can be found exclusively in the iTunes App Store games category. “I’m outraged,” Günter continued. “This is not a game to me! I was simply minding my own business this morning, crossing the river on the way to the farmers market when BAM! I was wacked on the noggin by a flying banana!” Lawyers for the Great Ape were quick to photograph the resulting trauma and have implied litigation may be pending. Against who we do not know.

Feet on the street reporters managed to capture a video of the assault and quickly posted it to YouTube. Mountain Gorillas are an endangered species, and only an estimated 720 mountain gorillas remain in the world according to the African Wildlife Federation.  Penalty for pelting one on the noggin with random fruit ranges from public humiliation to being forced to listen to a Jimmy Buffet cover band for five hours straight.

Gorilla Monkey Crunch is available for the iPhone or iPod touch for $0.99 in the Arcade Games section of Apple’s iTunes App Store.  The app can be downloaded here.

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  Like any good mom I wish I had a million hours a day (and the patience) to read, play and teach my toddler all day long. Unfortunately, in this fast-paced day and age these moments are few and far between. Before work I need to get ready, after work we have errands to run and so on and so forth. Sometimes I just need to be able to drive the car without him being frustrated at having nothing to do. I could just get him one of those portable DVD players and glue him to that everywhere we go, but like all of us parents know, children shouldn’t watch more than an hour of TV on average everyday… according to our pediatrician and I try to set that limit even lower. However, I am only a human being and every time he cries or wants to run around in Target and it’s just us alone I can’t give in and play with him until he is satiated. If I did that, we would never make it home in time to cook dinner, eat, take a bath, read bed time stories AND be in bed by 9PM.      A year ago when I got my iPhone my son, being the Curious George that he is, wanted to see what mommy does on it. At first we showed him some of the games I played, but then I had the brilliant idea to search for kids games and I found a whole bunch! Many of them were a disappointment, a waste of time and money. I don’t need a video-game addicted 3 year old. But a very few were fun and educational for him.     What does a mom want for her toddler to play with on her iPhone? For starters, nothing violent. I know that should be common sense, but that’s not so common these days. The colors have to be bright and attractive. The characters have to vary. The music should be fun and familiar (my son loves his “5 Little Monkeys” game and the “Wheels on the Bus”). Don’t be cheap and use a man’s monotone voice to help him learn to count numbers, as one application so pathetically did. Please make it a little bit more interesting than just opening the doors of a barn to find a new animal inside (no, offense PeekaBoo Barn, my son loves you, but I think you’re a waste of time). Teach them about letters, numbers and spelling! Allow them to draw or play the keys on a keyboard or another instrument. Teach them fun fact about the things little kids are already interested in: fire trucks, animals, etc. And reward them when they solve puzzles correctly. My son loves it when he completes a puzzle and the game tells him “Awesome” or, as one game brilliantly did, rewards him with stickers that he can paste in a mobile sticker book.     Let me tell you, as addicted as I am to my iPhone (and I can barely put it down), more than 60% of my applications are tailored towards educating and entertaining my child (of course I limit his use here as well). In addition, we use my iPhone to play soothing bedtime music before he goes to bed. So where do you find iPhone savvy moms like me? I spend most of my online time at Facebook, talking with friends and shareing updates about my son. I get tips from BabyCenter.com, find kid-friendly events and resources at GoCityKids.com and chatting with other moms like me CircleOfMoms.com. When choosing apps for my son, I rely heavily on reccomendations from other moms  

Anna is a working single mom. Born in Kiev, Ukraine she immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 4. She speaks Russian fluently and does her very best to make sure that her little boy will do the same. Anna attended UCLA and graduated with a degree in Psychology. She is currently working as a surgery coordinator in San Francisco.  

**Editors Note** I myself have children, but one is an 8 month old little girl, and the other is a 7 year old boy. Both play with my iPhone. The baby loves to play wtih "PhonyPhone" from BabyCenter, and my son loves iShoot – which, while it does involve tanks blowing each other up, does not portray any gore or life-like violence.