Claudia Herbst-Tait
3D Art & Education
Izzy: Stay You is a series of small board-books about staying true to yourself during life’s ups and downs, including moments of privilege.
Each book depicts a journey of Izzy and their feathered companion, Mr. Shillington. The world our two characters encounter has been created with the aid of AI. Check out the GIFs (Chrome):
Izzy Graduates: Stay You
Izzy Travels: Stay You
Izzy Mourns: Stay You (forthcoming)
Between 2013 to 2016, I published several apps and eBooks for kids; some were released under Monkeybear Press. I collaborated with Seunghyuk (David) Jang. We agreed that we wanted to keep advertising out of kids media. Over 136K apps and 28K eBooks have been downloaded!
Here is a privacy statement we needed to post in order to publish our kids apps:
“Privacy Policy. Last updated on May 22nd, 2015. Our products do not solicit a child’s information as part of game play or otherwise, and are in compliance with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not collect any personal, or non-personal data, or user-generated content, in any of its applications. We will thus never share any personal, or non-personal, data with third parties or otherwise. If a User contacts us by email, we will use the personally identifiable email address information only to respond to the specific inquiry. We also will never share any customer information, sell your email address, or other information. If you have any questions, please contact us at monkeybearpress@gmail.com”