Living Books series
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| Founded | December 1, 1992 |
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| Headquarters | United States |
| Owner | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Parent | Random House/Brøderbund |
Living Books was a series of interactive storybooks for children, first produced by Brøderbund and then spun off into a jointly-owned (with Random House) subsidiary, which were distributed on CD-ROM for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. The series began with the release of Just Grandma and Me (an adaptation of the book by Mercer Mayer) in 1992; other titles in the series included The Tortoise and the Hare, Arthur's Teacher Trouble (and other adaptations of books by Marc Brown), Dr. Seuss and Berenstain Bears titles.
Atlantan production company Red Rubber Ball (later Little Ark Interactive) created a series of biblical-themes interactive storybooks under contract from Living Books in the late 1990s, and developed under the direction of members of the original Living Books team.
By 2013, Wanderful, Inc. obtained the rights of the series and ported most of them to the iOS platforms and also added additional languages to the products. The Dr. Seuss and Little Critter titles were ported to iOS by Oceanhouse Media.
The assets are currently licensed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. As of 2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is offering the Living Books brand as a licensing opportunity on its website.
Several former Brøderbund leaders have released selected titles as fully interactive animated applications for Apple mobile devices, as well as for Android as Wanderful Interactive Storybooks.
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