The story centers around a brave knight ARBI who is asked by his fellow villagers to save them from a dangerous fire-breathing dragon. ARBI enlists his good friends, Smarlow the tortoise, Agick the cat, and Smellit the dog. The four embark on their venture using their individual strengths to contribute to the overall success of their team.

To begin the AR experience, I opened the app which displayed some menu items to include, a mute button, information about the book/app, language selection, character information, and web links for ARBI. Prominently displayed at the center of the screen was a button, which when pressed, would begin the adventure. This activated the device's rear facing camera.

When opened, the book is set-up with story text appearing on the left-hand page and an illustration to the right. The illustrations act to trigger AR content and anchor that content to the page. When the illustration in the book is viewed through the device an imaginative AR model is presented. The app allows for a colorful page to be transformed into an animated - engaging display that helps bring the story to life. For this review I was a sole reader, but I see how when this book is married with AR a child could be extremely entertained and amazed. A few questions about the story pop-up along the way. If correctly answered - the story continues. If incorrect - a countdown of 45 seconds appears before another answer can be chosen. Instead of a reader getting their first answer wrong, then randomly choosing other answers just to move along, the author implemented a good way to encourage readers to reengage with the text to find the correct answer. Scores are tallied and displayed at the end of the story.

The main menu of the app allows users to change the language as well as view instructions. When readers click 'Play with the Book!' , the rear facing camera of their device is activated. The ARBI coloring book contains twelve pages which can be colored by the reader. Ten pages are of characters which appear in other ARBI books and two are of the ARBI Shire landscape.

To see how it all worked I broke out the trusty crayons and chose a character to color. Once I was done, I viewed the page through my device. This activated an animated AR model of the character which was anchored to the page. If I moved my device away from the page, the AR model remained, but in a slightly different view. I was able to choose from ten different actions I wished my character to do - from walk and run to fly and somersault. The AR model was well designed and was an accurate representation of my coloring. The last pages in the book consist of a Logic Game and a Memory Game. While neither employ any AR functionality, they do complement the overall user experience.