Living Books!

[Oregon Becky]

Living Books! Living Books! Living Books! Living Books!

Too bad they don't sell them anymore. Someday I'll create some kind of group that sells cool stimmy autistic things and get the Living Books licenseing. Ah, dreams.

[Escential]

I spent an hour collecting resources and then was logged off after 35 minutes of entering it.
It is all gone and I don't know why.
I put stay logged on and wasn't 60 minutes even if it wasn't properly pressed.
This happened on the other forum also.
Here are the ones still available:
http://www.laboshpublishing.com/tipbook.html
idiom
http://www.superduperinc.com/F-G_Pages/fd14.htm
I previewed MindReading wrote Santa for it
http://www.jkp.com/mindreading/
face say free trial
http://www.facesay.com/
sorry about rest, maybe noone interested in Oregon anyway

[Oregon Becky]

We have the set of Living Books. We put them in our daughter's computer's hard drive. I'd pass copies around but then the company who owns them would kill me. Still, they are so important for autistic kids, and adults, My daughter still uses them to ground her emotions.

Living Books was easily the best out there but then Disney decided that they could do what Living Books did. So they used their famous name and marketing power to elclipse the little known Living Books name and put them out of business. The Disney books were lame. Living Books was created by people who loved the whole process and it wasn't about money. It was about loving to do some really cool things.

Living Books stands alone as the best of its kind for autistic people.

btw, you filled me with renewed energy for posting that this board. I NEEDED that!! Thank you!!!!!!!

[Escential]

I understand and would not want to break laws. but you make them sound so interesting.  I could use grounding about now.
What would it take to get publishing rights? so much is self published on demand which prevents wasted copies and money. Sometimes this leads to renewed interest in material and gets a publisher interested. Maybe they would want the books out there and not be too costly.

[Oregon Becky]

I don't know if Living Books would mind if I let you have one of my copies. I have several because I was afraid that I'd lose my master copies and then lose the computer's hard drive and then be very depressed.

Living Books was made for little kids but it is so delightful that it's fun for others. They take a kid's book and turn the pages into interact eccentric fun, original perfectly fitting music and sometimes very moving little tidbits. Disney and others try to capture the same feeling but they can't. The autisitc people around here say that nothing is as good. My daughter's school district still remembers to bring up Living Books on occasion and thanks us for telling them to buy Living Books. They still use them a lot.

The people who made Living Books are well aware of how good they were for autistic people. They, in fact, were so happy about it that they sent us free new additions and a T-shirt. Unfortunately they didn't own the rights to them. The parent company took back all their work and dissolved the group.

It was in the days when companies wanted to be real cut throat aggressive and instant millionaires.

[Escential]

Maybe it is like my idea and already done. Or could be similar but still useful to have another option for parents that we won't let rights go.