Tap to Play!: An Interactive Picture Book for Kids (Ages 4-8) Where You Shake and Tilt to Help Blip Win

by Salina Yoon

Tap to play!

Blip has to reach the bar to win his game--but he needs your help. If he wins, he gets a surprise!

Bounce Blip, shake Blip, tilt him and tickle him!

Help Blip win the game in this spirited interactive picture book, perfect for reading--and playing--again and again!

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Storytime, Games, Juvenile, Fiction, Humor

40 pages, Hardcover

First published October 7, 2014

About the author

Salina Yoon is an award-winning author/illustrator of over 150 books for children, including Penguin and Pinecone, Penguin on Vacation, Penguin in Love, Penguin and Pumpkin, Penguin's Big Adventure, Found, and Stormy Night.

Her latest book, Be a Friend, was a Winter 2015-2016 Kids' Indie Next Pick. Among her other awards are a Scholastic Teachers Top 10 Picture Book for Penguin's Big Adventure, and an NPR Best Book and 2014 SCIBA Book Award for Best Picture Book for Found. (complete list is on the website ABOUT page)

She studied art and design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and now lives in San Diego with her family.

www.salinayoon.com

Reviews

[Elisabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Salina Yoon is so fabulous, I'm disappointed she jumped on the trend of ripping off Press Here. I understand that this type of book is now a thing, like seek-and-find books, and soon they might even have their own designation...but right now it just smacks of copy-catism.

[Kris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute, but it is a rip-off of Press Here. It is really, really close to it, and I am not exactly sure how the author got away with it.

[Naomi Ruth · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. This was fun! It reminded me of Herve Tulle's books and Tap the Magic Tree.

[Cosette · Rating 2 out of 5]

Irritating red dot.

[DomiCzytaPL · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amerykańska autorka Salina Yool, która stworzyła ponad 100 książek dla dzieci, wykreowała również postać wesołego Blipka. Książeczka "Kliknij mnie" to interaktywna przygoda, pochłaniająca dzieciaki i doskonale zastępująca im tableta! Bo Blipek jest uczestnikiem komputerowo-książkowej gry, w którą angażuje małych czytelników. Kolejne jej etapy Blipek może pokonać tyko dzięki pomocy czytających o jego poczynaniach dzieci, które mają za zadanie klikać, trząść czy łaskotać głównego bohatera :) Za dotarcie do ostatniego etapu gry przysługuje nagroda! I to nie byle jaka. Przekonajcie się koniecznie sami wraz ze swoimi pociechami.

Wszystkim fanom kreatywnych książeczek autorstwa Herva Tulleta również i ta pozycja powinna przypaść do gustu. Bo czyż może być coś przyjemniejszego niż obserwowanie własnego dziecka, zafascynowanego uczestnictwem w książkowych wyprawach?

Serdecznie poleca Ala i jej mama :)
Wiek dziecka: 2+ (i czterolatek da się wciągnąć do zabawy).

[Kelsey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Age: K-2nd grade

To repeat the masses, I love Salina Yoon but this book fell way flat with no originality. It didn't feel like the red dot had any character so I didn't care about getting it to where it wanted to go. The disappearing bar was also a little weird. I believe it was trying to imitate video games but missed the mark. Seek out other interactive books and pass this one.

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Everyone seems to be jumping on the interactive book bandwagon after the success of Press Here. While this is a fun little book it doesn't quite have the charm and uniqueness of the original.

[Edward Sullivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun interactive book. See also Hervé Tullet's Press Here.

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very similar to Press Here by Tullet, but written in first person (we're helping a red dot win a game, and therefore, a surprise). Silly and fun - but I prefer Press Here.

[Jocelin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really disappointed in this one. The illustrations are cute enough but, the story is not really engaging. Just ok.

[Brett · Rating 4 out of 5]

VERY clever in its approach to treating a physical book like a game. One of Yoon's other books "Do Cows Meow?" was our kid's first favorite book so it's nice to check out something else she's done. I mean, you can see why people would get upset equating kids' books with video games but it's also not like parents can prevent their kids from getting interested in video games forever either, so calm down already.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an interactive picture book that seems to take place inside a video game of sorts. The interactive nature of the story made it a good choice for a storytime about playing games. The little countdown bar needed to be explained to kids because it really isn't explained in the text. In my first group, I didn't explain it to begin with but in my second group I pointed it out in the beginning and it added to kids' enjoyment of the story as they saw that time was running out.

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son was busting out laughing while reading this book. You have to help Blip get to the top bar on the other side of the page and so Blip asks the reader to shake and flip the book in all sorts of ways, the only things is, we are making him dizzy. Each page is full of something new and waiting to see what will happen next is part of the excitement. Its a very fun book to read and play with.

[Macrobugs · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like how the book is interactive but I feel as if other books (like The Monster at the End of the Book) do a better job than this one with the same concept. The ending also didn't seem to fit in with the rest of the book.

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to read this as a read-aloud to a group ASAP. Such a fun book!

[Erica Flory · Rating 4 out of 5]

bleep

[Mollie · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was okay but not as enjoyable as similar books like "Press Here" and its sequels.

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really fun interactive book!! My boys loved playing it while reading!

[Jillian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another reader-participation book, with a.... sort of new take?
It just really didn't do much for me. This one has too much tilting and shaking and is really just for one person.

[Erin Buhr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Playful. Fans of PRESS HERE will love this interactive book.

[Sandy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cute illustrations, but the interactive premise has been done better before.

[Alicia Evans · Rating 2 out of 5]

For: readers looking for an interactive book.

Possible red flags: characters in distress.

[Marcyjo Chachakis · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a wonderfully interactive book for toddlers and pre school children. They will love trying to get Blip to the bar to win the game.

[Banner Rodgers · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun interactive book.

[Kati · Rating 4 out of 5]

Based on the Blip from Wreck it Ralph he has the reader help him beat the game. As the reader you interact with the book to help Blip. Fun way to get kids actively involved in their reading.

[Margaret Chind · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very funny and interactive! I read an advanced opt and these pages are fairly durable pages, I assume the finished book will be very durable to last the shaking, tilting, and tapping also. From the way I enjoyed The Monster at the End of this Book - I have high hopes for little people responses to this one. Definitely going to be fun...

Genre: Juvenile Fiction / Concepts / General
Ages 4 to 8, Grades P to 3
Pages: 40 Hardcover 8.5x8.5"
Date Published: October 7, 2014
Publisher: Balzer + Bray

[Megan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was disappointed in this book. Both of my daughters had the same reaction to this book that I did. We wanted it to have a super cute ending that would make the book enjoyable. The one good thing I do have to say is that the copy we read has very durable pages! I absolutely hate when interactive picture books for children have cheap and thin pages that will rip the first time a kid flips a flap or whatnot! They all need pages just like the ones in this book.

[Tam · Rating 1 out of 5]

My 8-year-old loves the book "Press Here" by Herve Tullet but didn't bother to finish "Tap to Play!". Even at his age he could tell this book was a knock off but he asked me why this one was so boring. One part says to turn the book over so we expected the next page would have the words upside down but it didn't. It doesn't tell you the bar is counting down so your child has to be smart enough to figure that out. Very disappointing book.

[Michaela Baillie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. It is a very simple book about a game. The reader has to move the book around the ways Blip says in order to get him on the bar to get the surprise. This is probably a book I would always have on hand even though it has very simple wording, it is fun for everyone. It is interactive and fun for kids and a good way to get students who don't necessarily like reading to have fun with a book.

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

Obviously this book is going to draw a lot of comparisons to "Press Here". However, I actually liked this one more. The character is cute and there is a bit of a storyline which is always nice in a book. Regardless of any similarities to other books, "Tap to Play" will be a fun book to read with toddlers.