With the help of my son’s knowledge and passion for fire trucks I wrote and illustrated My First Fire Truck Book. That book was published a couple of weeks ago to the Amazon store. Now, thanks to my wife and a friend, the book is now available in Spanish.
My First Fire Truck Book and Mi Primer Libro de Camiones de Bomberos are great read alouds for toddlers, and both are awesome first books for beginning readers learning to read English or Spanish!
My toddler son and I worked diligently to put together our first book, My First Train Book and published it to the Kindle Store and the iBookstore. A short time later, my wife translated the book into Spanish and we published Mi Primer Libro de Trenes to the Kindle Store as well.
Almost as soon as the book was finished my son started talking about writing another book about fire trucks. He started naming off truck after truck. Who am I to discourage a child from reading and writing. So, we set off researching fire trucks and other types of firefighting vehicles.
The other night I was reading my son a few ebooks on the iPad. He asked for something new to read so the two of us perused the Amazon Kindle Store. Eventually we found a book that he liked (a train book). But I found something as well. The desire to create an ebook.
Given my background in elementary education, my current status as new dad, and the fact that writing is hard, I decided I’d create a children’s book.
Having no idea what I needed, I figured that at minimum I needed stuff like words, pictures, tools, and a means to publish.
Apple just released a new update and you’re itching to take advantage of it. Unfortunately, you jailbroke and must complete a few extra steps to ensure that not only your standard iOS settings and apps are installed, but that your Cydia apps and their settings are restored as well.
Lucky for you I’ve gone through the process and documented it along the way, from start to finish. So, get your iOS device ready and let’s get cracking.
