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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 ...
ArtSee Studio
Review Excerpt: iPad cases for children abound, but if your intention is to turn your iPad into a child’s easel, ArtSee Studio (WowWee.com, $40) is the best bet. Designed to offer ...
Journey Collector’s Edition
Review Excerpt: This is a collection of three PlayStation games that include Journey, Flower, and Flow. Other content includes mini-games, plus a documentary on the making of Journey. ...
Brave: Interactive Comic
Review Excerpt: This app features 48 interactive comic pages; two reading modes - panel by panel and autoplay; music and special sound effects in each panel; special sections on the ...
Rita the Lizard
Review Excerpt: Based on the print book, this eBook tells the story of a tiny lizard with an identity crises; Rita thinks she’s a chameleon like her uncle William, and you must ...
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 ...
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 ...
ABC ZooBorns
Review Excerpt: ABC ZooBorns turns your iPad or iPhone screen into an alphabet-themed visual encyclopedia. You start by touching one of the approximately 150 thumbnail images (156 ...
Goodnight Safari iPad App
Review excerpt: This is a seven screen narrated adaptation of Goodnight Moon. In the app, children help the giraffe eat her dinner, the monkey climb to bed, and the elephant kiss goodnight ...
VivaKids’ ABC
Review excerpt: This app features 26 letter-themed animated routines. It is especially designed to introduce children to various art techniques. For example, the letter V is made out ...
Numberlys, The
Review excerpt: The Numberlys comes from the studio that created The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Lawrence Lessmore, directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg of Moonbot Studios. ...
Fantavolieri
Review excerpt: Available in Italian and created in Rome, this interactive storybook by illustrator Gioia Marchegiani pulls you inside the world of a little girl who dreams about birds. ...
Dans Mon Rêve (In My Dream)
Review excerpt: This make-your-own dream machine lets you mix and match artistic elements with a left or right swipe. With each motion, the “dream” changes, along with an ...
Van Gogh and the Sunflowers!
Review excerpt: Based on the book by Laurence Anholdt, this app layers two types of interactive activities onto the pages, along with some scaffolding features (narrated text, and ...
Doink
Review excerpt: Doink is a vecter-based animation experience for iPad. Originally designed as a Flash-based website, the iPad app makes it easy to create simple cartoons, one frame ...
uDraw Studio Instant Artist
Review excerpt: The Xbox 360 version of Instant Artist, the title that comes bundled with the $80 uDraw game tablet package, includes all the drawing basics — pencils, brushes, ...
DoodleCast for Kids
Review excerpt: This “talk and draw” experience makes self-narrating and sharing a drawing into a nearly one-step process, providing you have an iPad. In addition, having ...
Paint My Wings
Want to give children a highly successful symmetry experience? Paint My Wings starts with a butterfly who says “paint my wings!” Using a palette of colors, you finger ...
Crayola ColorStudio HD with iMarker (v 1.0.2)
Review excerpt: Finger-based coloring apps for the iPad abound, but this is the first designed to work with a special cigar-sized, AA battery-powered stylus. The stylus is called iMarker ...
Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do
Review excerpt: In this set of 20 carnival inspired games, you will leap into the air on a Rocket to Mars, catch coins on a roller coaster, twist your body in Crash Test Dummy, avoid ...
Toontastic
Review excerpt: Why watch a cartoon when you can make one? This pirate-themed cartoon storyboarding toolkit exploits the iPad’s microphone, touch screen and web connectivity for ...
Pictionary
Review excerpt: Designed to work with the uDraw GameTablet (required) this is a screen adaptation of the board game where you sketch and guess clues. Content includes 3,000 clues, for ...
uDraw Studio
Review excerpt: uDraw Studio is the drawing package that comes bundled with THQ’s uDraw GameTablet. You can paint, draw, and color with nine tools. For example, you can draw simple ...
Kid Pix 3D
Review excerpt: Great news for Macintosh owners. Kid Pix, the popular drawing program used in many classrooms during the 1990s, has been updated for OSX. Like the first version, the ...
ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy
Review excerpt: This subscription-based curriculum for preschool through kindergarten lets children explore a wide variety of content in a structured way. After you log in, and pay ...
uDraw GameTablet
Review excerpt: The versatile Wii Remote can become a graphics tablet when it is snapped inside the uDraw GameTablet from THQ (www.worldofudraw.com). The $70 Wii-only tablet will be ...
Singing Fingers
Review excerpt: Singing Fingers starts with a blank white screen, then you drag your finger slowly across the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad’s screen. A microphone is required. As ...
SpinArt
Review Excerpt: Turn your iPhone screen into a paint-splattered mess with this simple program. The app was first released in 2008 and has been updated several times; but it is basically ...
KidArt for iPad
Review Excerpt: This finger painting experience for iPod Touch and iPhone, with a new version for the iPad, has a clean visual design, a manageable 10 color palette and resizable stickers. ...
Doodle Buddy
Review Excerpt: It used to be when you wanted to sketch out the plans for an invention, you grabbed a napkin. The iPad equivalent is Doodle Buddy, a multi-touch sketching utility. Content ...
Color & Draw for Kids
Review Excerpt: This open-ended drawing program gives you the best of both worlds — free one finger scribbling on a blank screen, or coloring on one of 50 traditional-looking ...
Drawing Pad (iPad)
Review Excerpt: Turn your iPad into an easel with this drawing experience. Content includes just two brush sizes (a bit limited), 60 colored pencils that look realistic on the textured ...
Brushes, iPad Edition
Review Excerpt: If there were such a thing as PhotoShop for your pocket, it might resemble something like the iPad version of Brushes ($10, brushesapp.com). Originally designed for ...
Winter’s Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again
Review Excerpt: This $30 Nintendo DS game creates a nice extension of the traditional printed picture book (same title, published by Scholastic). Both tell the true story of Winter, ...
Mister Rogers Make a Journal
Review Excerpt: Mister Rogers was known to be a bit of a geek, and he would’ve undoubtedly been thrilled to know that he finally has a bit of his neighborhood captured as an ...
Kerpoof.com (www.kerpoof.com)
Review Excerpt: Note: in 2009, Kerpoof was acquired by Disney, and the company was asked to make the creativity portal for Disney.com. See also: Disney Create.
Well-designed, free ...
Didi & Ditto Preschool: Mother Nature’s Visit
Review Excerpt: This third title in the Didi & Ditto series features the same film-quality animation that has become a trademark of the Canadian developer Kutoka Interactive, mixed ...
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