Scholastic Touch & Tilt storybooks for iPad: the 2011 launch

Touch & Tilt was the first series of interactive children's storybooks that Scholastic Media made for the iPad. The children's publisher, founded in 1920, announced it in early January 2011 with three launch titles: I Love You Through and Through, The Magic School Bus: Oceans, and Go, Clifford, Go!.

Each app turns a picture book into a story that a young child reads and plays alone. Touch effects let the child hear how a word is pronounced and what it means, change variables in the narrative and play small educational games set inside the story. Scholastic presented the apps as replayable, built so that a child would want to repeat the interactions again and again.

The line followed a 2009 release of six Scholastic game apps for iPhone and iPod touch, based on Clifford The Big Red Dog, I SPY, The 39 Clues, WordGirl and Goosebumps. The I SPY and Clifford apps were also available for iPad. Scholastic said it develops its book apps and other interactive products in-house, so that each one keeps the tone and look of the brand behind it. Deborah Forte, then president of Scholastic Media, described the aim as letting children own the experience of an interactive story.

The audience is the youngest readers, children who are learning to follow a story and to connect printed words with sounds and meanings. The learning content sits in the pronunciation and vocabulary help and in the mini-games, which tie back to each story.

All three launch titles built on existing Scholastic book brands. Scholastic framed the series as a way to build a love of reading, with reading and play treated as one activity. Other early-learning and school titles are listed with their status in the games directory.

No official Scholastic page that lists the three Touch & Tilt apps as available could be found as of November 2026. A search of the US App Store for the three titles returns no listing from Scholastic. The newsroom address that carried the January 2011 announcement now forwards to the general Scholastic newsroom page, which does not mention the series.

The status of the apps is therefore listed as unconfirmed. Nothing found says they were withdrawn, and nothing found says they can still be downloaded.