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Toca Tailor
Review Excerpt: Toca Tailor lets you design and style outfits for four “discerning and quirky characters,” by choosing patterns, adjusting hemlines or lengthening the sleeves. ...
Tiny Drivers: Schoolbus
Review Excerpt: Tiny Drivers: Schoolbus introduces the letters of the alphabet by way of a nicely illustrated school bus and a good metaphor (picking up letter sounds). There are two ...
Speedster
Review Excerpt: Speedster is one of a series of Worx Toys vehicles that come with clear plastic shells so you can see the insides light up in response to movement or a sequence of code ...
Sort and Stack Toys 3D
Review Excerpt: Jigsaw puzzles apps — where you drag and drop the pieces into place– abound. But few are designed as well as Sort and Stack Toys 3D. Designed in Romania, ...
Solar Walk – Saturn
Review Excerpt: This is the free, teaser version of Solar Walk (CTR July 2010) which focuses only on Saturn’s view of the solar system. The full version of the app ($.99) gives ...
Snow White
Review Excerpt: This is a digital retelling of the classic Disney story. Created in Spain, the large, 1.6 GB app features typical page by page, touch the hot spot design, with eight ...
Skylanders Giants
Review Excerpt: Big news for little kids. Sixteen new plastic Skylander figurines have been released for Fall 2012, and eight of them are Giant-sized, with “Giant” being ...
Shadow Move
Review Excerpt: We’ve all seen a shadow, but can you guess the shape behind the shadow? This collection of 50 spatial puzzles uses shadows as clues, and it really gives you a ...
Pyramids 3D—Wonders of the Old Kingdom
Review Excerpt: In this app, you start with a helicopter view of the plateau where the pyramids, tombs and the Sphinx are located— at Giza near Cairo, Egypt. As you “fly” ...
Play Hospital Pediatrics
Review Excerpt: Designed to make visits to the doctor’s office easier for a child to understand, this doll-house-like experience contains five rooms, including a waiting room, ...
PetWorld3D: My Animal Rescue
Review Excerpt: Originally designed for PC, this is the first in a series of 3D animal simulation and animal apps. The app lets you take care of the different animals in the Sunflower ...
Montessori Geometry
Review Excerpt: The app, designed for children from 5 to 10, lets younger children explore shapes, beyond the usual circle, triangle and square. For older children, there are 3D shapes. ...
Miny Moe Car
Review Excerpt: Miny Moe Car is a simple driving simulator that lets the kids drive a car. Children can steer, accelerate and brake, and use real dashboard functions like tuning the ...
Micro Chargers Time Track
Review Excerpt: These tiny battery powered cars make even Hot Wheels seem giant. About the size of a penny, the Micro Racers get their power from two AA batteries stored in the starting ...
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
Review Excerpt: Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! ($2.99 for Apple and Android) features a clean, uncluttered design, plus excellent text scaffolding that is typical of most ...
LittleBigPlanet Karting
Review Excerpt: Sackboy, or Sackgirl, returns in “the fastest LittleBigPlanet” adventure yet” with an E for Everyone rating. After Sackboy defeated the Negativitron, ...
Let’s Count
Review Excerpt: Designed to teach children to count, this app contains four counting exercises each dealing with jellybeans. You can arrange towers from short to tall; place the right ...
iSpotPro Themed Edition
Review Excerpt: Two pictures are shown, side-by-side. Can you spot the subtle differences? This tried-and-true format is applied repeatedly in this app, with 75 leveled puzzles based ...
Finding Nemo: Escape to the Big Blue
Review Excerpt: Inspired by the original Disney-Pixar animated film, this Frogger-like game challenges you to steer a fish in a bag across different obstacles, in order to join Nemo. ...
FIFA Soccer 13
Review Excerpt: Our testers, all real soccer players, liked this year’s FIFA Soccer and have been playing the Xbox version nearly non-stop since it arrived. New features for 2013 ...
Don’t Open Before Christmas
Review Excerpt: Similar to Doyle & Cummings’ first ebook, Nash Smasher!, this second app once again features a small boy headed for trouble. This time, 8-year-old Seymour ...
Disney Creativity Studio
Review Excerpt: The Disney Creativity Studio consists of both an app and a $50 stylus. Note that the app is free with the purchase of the stylus (a download code is included in the ...
Build and Play 3D – Plane, Train, Robot and More
Review Excerpt: In this app, children snap together nine machines and vehicles by dragging and dropping the various pieces into place. Incorrect answers just fall back to the side; ...
Bubble Guppies
Review Excerpt: Based on Nickelodeon’s preschool school series, this collection of games lets you join the class with the Bubble Guppies: namely Molly, Gil, Deema, Nonny, OOna ...
Animal SnApp: Farm
Review Excerpt: Old MacDonald gets a British twist (boots are called “a Welly”, for example), right from Nosy Crow (see also Cinderella) in this make-your-own nursery rhyme. ...
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