We’ve written about many of the fairytale storybook-apps from publisher StoryToys, most recently its pop-up take on The Jungle Book. Now it’s bringing them all together in one app.

It’s called Grimm’s Bookshelf, and is pitched as a way for parents and children to sample all of StoryToys’ apps in one place, playing a free game from each storybook, buying apps that they like the look of, and launching every StoryToys app that they own from within the app too.

The company says it’ll use the Bookshelf app to let parents know about promotions, discounts and new/future apps as well. The games include searching the undergrowth with Mowgli and his Jungle Book friends, playing ping-pong against the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, rescuing a prince with The Little Mermaid and more.

It’s a good idea, and one that we’ve seen other children’s app publishers try too: Dr Seuss Bookshelf and Disney Carnival being two examples.

As children’s developers and publishers release more apps, parents are learning which ones they trust, and for whom they want to know about new apps as they come out. With the App Store an ever-more-crowded place, we wouldn’t be surprised to see more of our favourite app developers launching Bookshelf-style apps to keep in touch with parents.

Grimm’s Bookshelf is a free download on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. We understand it’s also launching on Android this week, so we’ll update this article with the link as soon as it goes live.