SUBSCRIBE
SUBSCRIBE
SLJ Blog Network +
  • 100 Scope Notes
  • A Fuse #8 Production
  • Good Comics for Kids
  • Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog
  • Teen Librarian Toolbox
  • The Classroom Bookshelf
  • The Yarn
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About/Contact
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Manga
  • All Ages
  • Young Adult
  • Interviews
  • News

November 15, 2011 by Brigid Alverson

Top Shelf launches digital apps with super sale

November 15, 2011 by Brigid Alverson   Leave a Comment

Top Shelf, home of Owly, Johnny Boo, and a host of newer children’s graphic novels, announced its own app yesterday—and there’s a special app just for kids.

The Top Shelf iOS app carries comics for adults and children, while the Top Shelf Kids app is dedicated solely to their kids’ line. They are launching the apps with a special sale: This week, Book 1 of Johnny Boo, by James Kochalka, is just 99 cents, and book 1 of Owly, by Andy Runton, is available for $1.99. If you like those, the app offers additional volumes of both, as well as Chris Eliopoulos’s Okie Dokie Donuts and Jeffrey Brown’s Incredible Change-Bots, at what seems to be the standard price of $4.99 each).

Both apps are powered by comiXology, so they look and feel a lot like comiXology’s Comics reader, and they sync with it as well, which means you can read the comics on Android devices and computers as well as iOS. Top Shelf also makes its comics available via Graphicly and Comics +, which makes them pretty universal.

SCROLL TO KEEP READING THIS POST

ADVERTISEMENT

ADVERTISEMENT

Here’s a peek at the iPad app:

Filed under: News

SHARE:

Read or Leave Comments
digital comicsiPad appsTop Shelf

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

ADVERTISEMENT

Related Posts

March 2022

Lunch Lady Returns in Hardcover | Preview

by Brigid Alverson

March 2022

Batman's Mystery Casebook | Incoming

by Brigid Alverson

December 2021

Enola Holmes: Mycroft’s Dangerous Game | News

by Brigid Alverson

November 2021

Max & the Midknights Cartoon Announced

by Brigid Alverson

November 2021

Manga Classics Shakespeare: Modern English Editions

by Brigid Alverson

ADVERTISEMENT

SLJ Blog Network

100 Scope Notes

One Star Review, Guess Who (#167)

by Travis Jonker

A Fuse #8 Production

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: There’s a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer

by Betsy Bird

Good Comics for Kids

My Little Pony | This Week’s Comics

by Lori Henderson

Heavy Medal

Many May Suggestions: First Quarter Mock Newbery Possibilities

by Emily Mroczek-Bayci

Teen Librarian Toolbox

Middle School Angst in the Sunshine State, a guest post by Nina Moreno

by Amanda MacGregor

The Classroom Bookshelf

Farewell From The Classroom Bookshelf

by Erika Thulin Dawes

The Yarn

Grant Snider Visits The Yarn!

by Travis Jonker

ADVERTISEMENT

Related Articles on SLJ

A Woman’s Place Is in a Graphic Novel: Outstanding Works for Young Readers Center Women in History

The Comics of COVID | Stellar Panels

Introducing “Stellar Panels,” SLJ’s New Graphic Novels Column

Marvel, Scholastic To Launch New Line of Graphic Novels for Young Readers

10 Sports Manga for Hardcore Fans and Newcomers Alike | Mondo Manga

Commenting for all posts is disabled after 30 days.

ADVERTISEMENT

Archives

Follow This Blog

Enter your email address below to receive notifications of new blog posts by email.

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

Primary Sidebar

  • News & Features
  • Reviews+
  • Technology
  • School Libraries
  • Public Libraries
  • Age Level
  • Ideas
  • Blogs
  • Classroom
  • Diversity
  • People
  • Job Zone

Reviews+

  • Book Lists
  • Best Books
  • Media
  • Reference
  • Series Made Simple
  • Tech
  • Review for SLJ
  • Review Submissions

SLJ Blog Network

  • 100 Scope Notes
  • A Fuse #8 Production
  • Good Comics for Kids
  • Heavy Medal
  • Neverending Search
  • Teen Librarian Toolbox
  • The Classroom Bookshelf
  • The Yarn

Resources

  • 2022 Youth Media Awards
  • The Newbery at 100: SLJ Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Award
  • Special Report | School Libraries 2021
  • Summer Reading 2021
  • Series Made Simple Spring 2021
  • SLJ Diverse Books Survey
  • Summer Programming Survey
  • Research
  • White Papers / Case Studies
  • School Librarian of the Year
  • Mathical Book Prize Collection Development Awards
  • Librarian/Teacher Collaboration Award

Events & PD

  • In-Person Events
  • Online Courses
  • Virtual Events
  • Webcasts
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Media Inquiries
  • Newsletter Sign Up
  • Content Submissions
  • Data Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Terms of Sale
  • FAQs
  • Diversity Policy
  • Careers at MSI


COPYRIGHT © 2022


COPYRIGHT © 2022