Prestigious QED Seal Awarded to The Ultimate Guide to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    MARYVILLE, TN, August 30, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Audrey Press and Kite Readers are pleased to announce their recently released children's book, The Ultimate Guide to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has received the coveted QED Seal. In conjunction with the Publishing Innovation Awards, this award stands for Quality, Excellence, and Design and is considered the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval " for ebooks. This seal tells an ebook reader they can purchase the book with confidence knowing the title will render well regardless of their preferred reading format.

To be considered for this award, ebook submissions first pass a thorough, professional 13-point design review, focusing on its readability across multiple devices and in multiple formats. The QED is then judged on criteria based on recommendations from the Publishing Innovation Awards Advisory Council; a respected leader in the digital production and design space.

As author Valarie Budayr states, "We believed from the beginning we had a winner with this enchanting adventure of a book, but to receive an award as coveted as the QED Seal truly validates our efforts and our commitment to providing families with ways to come together. We wanted to inspire, educate and entertain and show how far technology has advanced. Our book underwent a critical review as part of this award process and we could not be more pleased and proud of the outcome."

The Ultimate Guide to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory http://ultimateguidetocharlie.com/ is an interactive children's book that is both entertaining and educational. A joint effort from the creative team of Valarie Budayr and Roscoe Welply, this delightful book, based on the beloved children's story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory allows readers, both young and young at heart, to dive into the wonderfully wacky world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and join along in the adventures hidden within its pages.

Designed for the entire family, the book contains more than 20 crafts and activities. Whether its learning where chocolate comes from or how gum is made, or working their way through mazes, puzzles and games, it provides hours of family fun and adventure that can be experienced at the reader's own pace, over and over again.

The Ultimate Guide to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published by Audrey Press http://www.audreypress.com in affiliation with Kite Readers and available at iTunes at http://tinyurl.com/7omgzjk now. For media interviews please contact publicist, Diana Ennen at [email protected]. This book is not affiliated or associated with the author, publisher, or distributors of Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

About Audrey Press: The mission of Audrey Press is to inspire children, families, schools and all of our communities, no matter how small or how large, to experience, discover, and create our world together through the power of books and play. Audrey Press strives to plant the seeds of adventure, magic and togetherness by taking books off shelves and stories off pages. Discover. Inspire. Share.

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