Whenever British publisher Nosy Crow releases a new app, we raise a cheer. The company has made a succession of marvellous storybook-apps, with our favourites being its fairytales: The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk.

The company doesn’t just make apps though: it also publishes printed books of all kinds for children. Now it’s crossing the streams: two of those fairytale apps have been turned into books.

The Three Little Pigs and Cinderella are being published as hardback books – those links are to the Waterstones website, but they’re also available on Amazon and from other retailers.

Why would you want a book based on an app? Well, if you’ve seen the beautifully-animated characters and illustrations in the apps, you’ll know: Nosy Crow’s Ed Bryan is one of our favourite children’s illustrators working in any medium, so we’re chuffed that his work is now available in printed format too.

“Gorgeously designed, and packaged with delightful detail and drama, these are books to treasure and enjoy over and over again,” as the company puts it.

This isn’t the first time the two parts of Nosy Crow’s business have overlapped, by the way. Its 2012 app Animal SnApp: Farm was later turned into a book called Flip Flap Farm, which in turn became an app again in 2013.

The company has also turned the illustrations from some of its print-only books into downloadable puzzles for its Nosy Crow Jigsaws app, which came out in September 2014.