Wasn't there something similar with the Eyetoy?

I just saw that you user title is "Misanthrope" yet you claim to have a very good friend. :)

Anyway, I hope that you will convey the feedback to your friend.

If Harold and the Purple Crayon had included an interactive app, that would have set a bar so high that everything in my life afterwards would be a tired slog toward death's embrace by way of comparison.

Cool idea, though. The animations might take away from the imagination/personalization necessary to fill in the gaps between pictures in a "normal" book, but I can see how it would be appealing to use the app as a gateway drug to normal books instead of trying to convince kids to put down their electronic whatsits so that you can force feed one down their throat.

Brilliant choice of books. Childrens books now a days just don't have the same magic (or clever good writing ) that the use to. Great thing about these books is I can read them too. :D

I can't see that at all. In my experience once kids can read they transition quite quickly from listening to books and looking at the pictures to reading the books. I can't see how combining a book with an AR tablet experience would make them read more. It will just be a distraction. If it will have any audience, it's parents who don't really care for books, have a half-hearted notion that it's a good idea that their kids read books even if they (the parents) don't like reading books, and think that a book with animation is superior to a plain book (because, hey, books are booooooooring).