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Super Home Hero
Review Excerpt: This app illustrates the importance of children helping at home, with jobs like taking out the trash or folding the laundry. There’s not much to actually do in ...
StoryBots Starring You StoryBooks
Review Excerpt: JibJab has dramatically increased their StoryBots apps, but be warned — these apps do a great job pulling you in for free, and then do everything possible to get ...
Ride a Pony with Kate and Harry
Review Excerpt: This open-ended experience lets you decorate your own pony using a set of clear multiple choice menus, and then take it for a ride. There are no in-app purchases or ...
Ranger Rick Jr. Appventures: Lions
Review Excerpt: This collaboration of Moonbot Studios (see: Morris Lessmore) and the editors of Ranger Rick Jr. Magazine mixes real information about Lions (how they eat, sound and ...
Quick Images
Review Excerpt: The app starts with six types of numerical representations, such as “Ten Frames” and “Rekenrek” models which are used in many school curriculums. ...
Peekaboo People starring Busytown
Review Excerpt: This app features an elevator with closed doors. If you touch the doors you discover one of 13 characters hiding inside. The characters appear at random, including a ...
Peekaboo App – Peekaboo Presents
Review Excerpt: Designed for toddlers, this simple app hides 13 gifts inside a bouncing present under the Christmas tree. When tapped the present opens to reveal animated characters ...
Otter on his Own
Review Excerpt: This app follows a familiar Oceanhouse Media script. Start with an original book, and let children touch the illustrations or words to hear them read out loud, and labeled. ...
Negative Nimbus
Review Excerpt: This is a side-scrolling timing game that requires fine motor skills to get through a level. As a rain cloud drifts over a meadow, you turn on or off the rain, to make ...
My First App Vehicles
Review Excerpt: This puzzle app contains eight vehicles that can be mixed, matched and turned into either a set of jigsaw puzzles or a pinball game. The illustrations come to life when ...
Move the Turtle: Programming for Kids
Review Excerpt: Designed to introduce Turtle programming concepts (remember those from the Apple IIe days), this app provides a series of challenges that require entering LOGO commands ...
MG
Review Excerpt: If there was such thing as an iPod Touch for Google’s Android operating system, this would be it. MG gives you access to a large and growing library of Android ...
MEEP! Tablet
Review Excerpt: MEEP! ($150, Oregon Scientific, http://www.meeptablet.com/us/) is a 7 inch, Wi-Fi enabled Android tablet that comes with its own custom app store. The idea is to give ...
Maze Adventures
Review Excerpt: Offering six sets of themed mazes, this app is an exercise in spatial problem solving. To solve a maze, you use your finger to trace a path through the maze, guiding ...
Magnificent Travelling Palace, The
Review Excerpt: This storybook app takes children on an adventure through India. As with many ebooks, there are three modes: auto play; read it to me; and read it myself. Some of the ...
Learn Spanish: Little Blue Jackal
Review Excerpt: Want to expose an English-speaking child to the sound and rhythm of Spanish? This app is centered around a 20 or so screen fable-like story of a little jackal (chacalito) ...
Kindle Fire HD
Review Excerpt: Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD is a viable children’s tablet, especially considering it falls into the same price range. Features include parental controls, a front ...
InnoTab 2s Learning App Tablet
Review Excerpt: The boundary between the toy tablet, and the real tablet, keeps getting thinner. Case in point — the InnoTab 2s Learning App Tablet ($100, www.vtechkids.com): ...
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