Presenting “The Monarch Butterfly: An Interactive Picture Book”

Over the weekend, I finally finished my first serious attempt at an interactive picture ebook. I've been working on it off and on for several years, first as I tried to take photographs that were worthy of being published, and second as I taught myself enough Javascript to create the effects that I thought were necessary to show the photographs and information in a fun and beautiful way.

Here's a short sampling of the book:



You can download a sample, or buy the whole book on the iBookstore. It works great on both iPad 2 and 3, as well as newer iPhones. I haven't tested it in other readers besides iBooks (yet).

I am writing a new miniguide that explains how to create interactive ebooks with Javascript and CSS and will announce that as soon as it's available.

If you would like a review copy, please contact me.