List/Grid Monthly Archives: October 2012
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Zoomy Handheld Digital Microscope
Review Excerpt: This handheld digital microscope displays images of up to 43x magnification. Features include: designed to fit easily in a child’s hand; one-touch photo and video ...
Who Stole the Moon
Review Excerpt: In the story, a boy dreams of being an astronaut, so he watches the moon at night through his skylight. The pages are designed so a child can take part in the story, ...
Tortoise and the Hare, The (iPad)
Review Excerpt: The Living Books have been reborn on the iPad. The first of three titles, The Tortoise and the Hare joins three others: Mercer Mayer’s Little Monster at School, Marc ...
Toca Band
Review Excerpt: In Toca Band, you start with an empty stage, with seven spots waiting to be filled. You get your choice of sixteen musicians to mix and match. You discover that some ...
To the Farm!
Review Excerpt: In the app, children spell the names of 16 farm animals, letter-by-letter. There are two spelling modes: Easy Spelling and Spelling. There’s also a sentence reading ...
Tizzy Seasons
Review Excerpt: Designed to let children freely explore four seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter). In Spring, children can feed the birds in their very own birdhouse, plant ...
Standing Talk Back Ben and Standing Talk Back Tom
Review Excerpt: Like an electronic parrot, these 12 inch plush toy were inspired by the Talk Back Ben (and Tom) apps. The toys have an internal microphones and can repeat your words ...
Social Express, The
Review Excerpt: The Social Express is set of eight video-based lessons delivered on either computer or iPad, for children with a condition such as autism, Asperger’s or ADHD. It claims ...
Pumpkin Pal
Review Excerpt: In this app, children first choose from five pumpkin shapes. They can then either freely carve (with an adjustable-width knife) or they can select different eyes, noses ...
Pokémon White Version 2
Review Excerpt: Good news for Pokemon fans: two versions of Pokémon for Nintendo DS, with backward compatibility with previous Pokémon games. Our seasoned players gave them both a ...
Pokémon Conquest
Review Excerpt: Step into the role of a young Warlord linked with a Pokémon and use your abilities in battle to defeat rival Warlords, conquer castles, recruit allies and build their ...
Pokémon Black Version 2
Review Excerpt: Featuring some new sharing options and new worlds to explore, this is one of two Pokémon titles that our testers called “the same game, with different covers.” ...
Picture Me Trick or Treat
Review Excerpt: Using the iPad’s camera, this electronic edition of the printed Picture Me book lets you put up to eight of your own photos inside the story, peeking out of windows ...
now!Board Portable Interactive Whiteboard
Review Excerpt: Looking for a whiteboard alternative? Learning Resources has a $500 option, providing you already have a projector, screen and a Mac or Windows computer. The now!Board ...
Mozart Interactive
Review Excerpt: The first of a multi-chapter suite of apps (this first chapter is free), this is an animated musical adventure designed to get children interested in music. Much of ...
Meet Heckerty
Review Excerpt: This eBook for iPad tells the story of Heckerty, a zany, rather silly witch who is trying trying to improve her beauty for a passport photo. She’s not helped ...
LEGO Creationary Halloween
Review Excerpt: Here’s a game of LEGO Creationary with a haunted Halloween theme. Like the original title (see CTR August 2012) the timed guessing game lets you earn points by ...
Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin, The
Review Excerpt: “One day in the pumpkin patch, the strangest little pumpkin hatched.” And so begins this 16 screen story, about a square pumpkin, who — by the end ...
LeapPad2
Review Excerpt: This year’s edition of the LeapPad, called the LeapPad2 Explorer, looks and feels the same as last year’s LeapPad. But the apps feel more responsive, and ...
Kinect Sesame Street TV
Review Excerpt: We’ve all grown used to the notion of watching TV. Now it can watch you back, providing you have one of two Kinect titles — Kinect Sesame Street TV, or Kinect ...
Kinect Nat Geo TV
Review Excerpt: We’ve all grown used to the notion of watching TV. Now it can watch you back, providing you have one of two Kinect titles — Kinect Sesame Street TV, or Kinect ...
Kids Preschool Puzzle
Review Excerpt: Designed to teach one of 14 languages through simple puzzles, this collection of 60 standard-variety touch and drop jigsaw puzzles are grouped into six common vocabulary ...
Jakks Pacific Power Trains Auto Loader City
Review Excerpt: Here’s a new twist on train sets, and an entirely different price range. Power Trains are hampster-sized motorized trains that run on 2 AAA batteries that last ...
InnoTab 2 Learning App Tablet
Review Excerpt: This year, VTech (www.vtechkids.com) is competing directly with LeapFrog with three AA battery powered portable platforms: the MobiGo 2 ($60), the InnoTab 2 ($80) with ...
IMAG•N•O•TRON
Review Excerpt: This augmented reality (AR) app requires two things in order to work: a camera equipped iPhone or iPad and a copy of the printed (real) book: The Fantastic Flying Books ...
Harry Potter for Kinect
Review Excerpt: Pulling from all the Harry Potter movies, this Kinect game lets you jump into the screen with Harry, Ron and Hermione to explore Hogwarts. The game uses Kinect’s ...
Harry and the Haunted House (iPad)
Review Excerpt: Mark Schlichting’s classic (first published as a Living book in 1994, and as a printed paperback) finally comes to iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) from a new company ...
Dora: Where is Boots?
Review Excerpt: Billed as a “Hide and Seek Adventure” this app was inspired by the classic lift-the-flap books. The nine screen adventure hides something red in each page. ...
Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure
Review Excerpt: In this game, you start by choosing an avatar — in this case Cinderella, Rapunzel, Ariel, Belle or Tiana. Each has a magic wand with different abilities, and ...
Counting Ants Math Adventure
Review Excerpt: This side-scrolling math game lets you collect numbers scattered on the screen, that meet a specific criteria. Players jump from platform to platform collecting the ...
Math to the Rescue
Review Excerpt: Math drill meets a rescue theme, giving children the chance to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts, covering 1st grade through 5th grade. ...
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