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MathMountain

YodelOh Math Mountain

Review Excerpt: This math drill that takes place in a carnival game. In order to win, you must correctly solve as many problems as possible before Hans the Hiker falls off the cliff. ...
type

Type Defender

Review Excerpt: Nearly every typing tutorial has a game where you must stop approaching enemies by typing out the short words they carry. If you miss a word, the enemies score points, ...
turn

Turn And Learn

Review Excerpt: Turn and Learn is a smart flashcard app that makes it easy to practice basic vocabulary words in English, German, French, Italian and Russian. The screen is set up in ...
critter

Trip, The – Little Critter Reading Adventure

Review Excerpt: In this Mercer Meyer story, you start with a choice of the classic “just read” and “reading adventure” modes. The story is a good one … ...
snowflake

Tale of a Snowflake, The

Review Excerpt: This eBook introduces children to the concept of the water cycle. In the story, a little girl captures a talking snowflake, who explains how she started as a drop of ...
storybots

StoryBots Tap & Sing

Review Excerpt: This is a living xylophone that has keys that can teach you songs. Each note on the two octave scale is represented by one of JibJab’s StoryBot characters. You ...
bread

Slice of Bread goes to the Beach

Review Excerpt: This 15 screen/page ebook tells the story of what happens when a slice of bread visits the beach. The animated effects support the story, which is written, narrated ...
TurtleTrekShamu

Seaworld Presents Turtle Trek

Review Excerpt: This app lets you steer a baby sea turtle through a five zone maze of danger, friends and treasure in order to meet some friends. As you explore, you collect coins and ...
ruff

Ruff’s Bone

Review Excerpt: This is an updated iPad edition of the classic Living Book. If you’re in your early 20s, you might recall the CD-ROM edition of the story. Ruff loves his “Sunday ...
quigley

Quigley the Caterpillar

Review Excerpt: In the story, Quigley the caterpillar meets a beautiful butterfly named Bertina. Now Quigley sees himself as plain and wants to fly gracefully like Bertina and will ...
preschoolmaze

Preschool Maze 123

Review Excerpt: Following Toddler Maze 123, Preschool Maze offers 16 more mazes, each with different themes that include pirates, aliens and penguins and more that you must help to ...
potty

Potty Training: Learning with the animals

Review Excerpt: Here’s a potty training app that starts with the question “do you have butterflies in your stomach?” You then help farm animals and two children use ...
pitch

Pitch Painter

Review Excerpt: This is a musical finger painting app that lets children create music, while introducing them to a variety of musical instrumental sounds and authentic scale tunings ...
patterns

Patterns by Edninja

Review Excerpt: This is a puzzle game that introduces patterns. Content includes 60 level sets consisting of dozens of pattern-completion puzzles. Here’s how it works: In each ...
mysterymath

Mystery Math Town

Review Excerpt: Math facts (of the flashcard variety) meet a haunted house in this leveled exploration game. Your mission is to help a friendly ghost rescue the fireflies by exploring ...
meanwhile

Meanwhile

Review Excerpt: This app turns a storyline into a maze with a visual branching set panels. You quickly learn that there are many different paths to the end, and only one has a happy ...
mazement

Mazement

Review Excerpt: This is a ball rolling maze game where you tilt your iPad in order to move from one level to the next. Along the way, you avoid holes and pick up items to score points. ...
puzzle

Matching Puzzle Cards: Colors

Review Excerpt: This app turns the pedagogy of the flash card inside out, by making each card into an animated two piece jigsaw puzzle that you can snap together the parts.  For example, ...
littlered

Little Red Riding Hood

Review Excerpt: This interactive edition of Little Red Riding Hood is full of surprises. Don’t worry — the classic foreshadowing of being eaten by the wolf has been preserved ...
oriole

Little Oriole

Review Excerpt: Little Oriole features woodcut art and background music that can be toggled on or off. The 38 screen story is built around the questions “Who are you?” and “Where ...
kindoma

Kindoma Storytime

Review Excerpt: Kindoma Storytime combines simple eBooks and videochat features, so that books can be read together, over long distances. The idea is that you can share a bedtime story ...
kidssounds

Kids Sounds

The idea of linking animated images with sounds is a good one, especially because it lets children play with layers of sound; a good way to let them discover the elements of music. ...
astronaut

Junior Astronaut – Breaking Through the Space Barrier

Review Excerpt: Inspired by the classic space books of the 1950s and 60s, this activity book app is designed to teach children about how rockets work, the launch process and space travel, ...
ipoe

iPoe Collection 1

Review Excerpt: Designed in Spain but available in English (or Spanish or French), this is a digital retelling of four of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories: The Oval Portrait, ...
tigers

I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories

Review Excerpt: This is a collection of classic Dr. Suess stories that are hard to find in your traditional library. The headliner — “I Can Lick 30 Tigers” is the ...
happi

Happi & The Pirates

Review Excerpt: This is like a mashup of a grid game like battleship with a crossword puzzle; and you are rewarded with a jigsaw puzzle. You must use your “spell-power” ...
greenstreets

Green$treets: Unleash the Loot!

Review Excerpt: Part of the Fingerprint platform, this free app attempts to let children explore “financial and ecological responsibility” (per the press materials) by way ...
maze123

Fairytale Maze 123

Review Excerpt: This is a collection of 20 mazes, each designed around a popular fairytale theme. In one maze, you lead the prince to Rapunzel; in another you help the three little ...
seuss

Dr. Seuss’s Short Story Collection

Review Excerpt: This is an eight-pack of generally lesser-known Dr. Seuss titles, all in one $8 app. They include The Big Brag, Gertrude McFuzz, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!, King Looie ...
panda

Dr. Panda’s Supermarket

Review Excerpt: One of a series of now over ten apps (see also Dr. Panda’s Daycare and Dr. Panda’s Beauty Salon) this app lets children manage their own supermarket, with ...
cinderella

Disney Princess Cinderella

Review Excerpt: This is a solid retelling of Disney’s Cinderella, with three modes, (read it myself, read to me, and record my voice). Content includes a sing-a-long to the classic ...
dexteria

Dexteria Jr.

Review Excerpt: Three simple, highly structured activities could be useful for introducing someone to multi-touch screens. For example, Pinch the Pepper lets you try out your emerging ...
baby

Baby Learning Family

Review Excerpt: Baby Learning Family is designed to help your baby recognize, identify and interact with all your family members and friends, through a simple touch-and-hear browsing. ...
wince

Wince Don’t Feed the WorryBug

Review Excerpt: Based on the book, Don’t Feed The WorryBug by Andi Green, this app tells the story of a little monster named Wince who worries so much The WorryBug appears. Children ...
willibe

What Will I Be?

Review Excerpt: Wondering what you’ll be when you grow up? Now there’s an app for that. This 19 page eBook follows a predictable pattern, with about four animated surprises ...
timun

Timun Mas (Golden Cucumber)

Review Excerpt: This is a traditional Indonesian folk story, about a brave girl who’s trying to escape from an evil Ogre. The app features illustrations, animations, music and interactivity, ...
caillou

Step-by-Story – Caillou’s Window – A Fingerprint Network App

Review Excerpt: This story creation activity asks children to make a story that features Caillou, using a multiple-choice style menu. There are three options from the main menu: make, ...
states

Stack the States

Review Excerpt: Do you know the state flag for North Carolina? Or which state borders Canada? This multiple-choice quiz game rewards you with more than a correct answer. Content includes ...
spacebook

Spacebook

Review Excerpt: This collection of 5,000+ astronomy photos is the kind of app that a young Carl Sagan would certainly have on his or her iPad or iPhone. Think of it as a customized ...
sight

Sight Words Learn to Read

Review Excerpt: Designed to teach your high frequency Dolch sight words, this app asks children to match the words by touching fish that contain words. Each fish is showcasing three ...
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