Het Woeste Woud (The Wild Forest) is an independent digital agency based in the Netherlands.
We create television programmes, apps, and software tools for scientific research.
Our clients include national television broadcasters, universities and publishers.
Below you’ll find a summary of the services we offer to our international partners.
If you have any questions, please contact me to see what we can do for you.
Christiaan Coenraads
christiaan@hetwoestewoud.nl
+31(0)614708890
We develop digital picture books for computer and tablets like iPad. Many of our digital books have been subject of extensive academic research. So far, the results have been encouraging.
Especially children with limited language skills benefit from the meaningful context that our digital picture books provide to the reader.
These scientific findings have dramatically increased the popularity of our digital picture books on digital whiteboards and school pc’s.
Further reading:
use our digital picture books
We have digital picture books available for for use in scientific research. Contact us for info on translation and license opportunities.
create new digital picture books
We can help you to create digital books for computers and tablets. You can include tests and view the test-results in your browser.
collect data
We offer a software tool that allows you to track and download all kinds of data generated by our digital picture books. For example: when and for exactly how long was a particular page viewed? On what buttons did the reader tap? How did they do on a vocabulary test? View a screenshot here.
Animated picture books: a hit on Dutch kids tv
When our animated picture book-series first premiered on Dutch national television, the series immediately entered the top 5 of most viewed shows for the age-group 3-5.
Since then our animations have remained a populair fixture on national television and have been licensed to networks all over the world. One of the programs to include our animated picture books is the German version of Sesame Street.
broadcast our animated picture books
We have a series of animated picture books available for international distribution. Contact us for info on translation and license opportunities.
create new animated picture books
In the field of animation of picture books, we think we are the largest studio in Europe. Picture book publishers trust us with the work of their award winning authors and illustrators who love the way in which we digitise their books. Their text and artwork is kept intact throughout the digitalisation process using our in-house developed techniques. If you need animated picture books, we’d love to talk to you. So feel free to contact us with any questions you might have.
Our animated picture books and the digital literacy-games we designed to complement them, have won the prestigious Dutch National Literacy Award.
State Secretary of Education M. van Bijsterveldt handed out the award. The award was awarded by the The Reading & Writing Foundation which is chaired by Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands.
The jury praised the innovative and effective approach towards solving literacy problems in early education.
Shortly after the release of iPad, Apple selected the app Letterlegger to be one of the best five Dutch educational apps of 2011. We created the app for educational publisher Zwijsen.
After that we went on to create many more apps. Many of those ended up in the top 10 of their category in the App Store.
Users of the app where also very happy with it:
What a great app for 4-5 years old kids who already know some letters. My grand daughter loves it!Ashat4youGreat! *****