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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, ...
Doki Explores the Ocean
Review Excerpt: Created by LivoBooks in partnership with the Discovery Kids, this app is supposed to help you learn about sea life. Features include the ability to toggle between English, ...
StoryToys Grimm’s Snow White
Review Excerpt: Available for both Android and Apple mobile devices, the $2 app features a solid design and playful 3D graphics. This particular story mixes a Snow White and the Seven ...
Little Things Forever
Review Excerpt: This second edition of Little Things (called Little Things Forever) contains 10 fresh mosaic puzzles based on thousands of “little things” –clothing ...
I Spy With Lola HD
Review Excerpt: This app effectively takes the common hunt-and-find play pattern down a notch by way of a series of carefully leveled challenges, clear labels and a playful theme. The ...
Bugs and Numbers
Review Excerpt: Third in the series, Bugs and Numbers contains 18 games and activities, designed around a bug city. The app is organized into three basic stages, to grow with your child ...
My Look and Find Book
Review Excerpt: This hunt-and-find experience features wonderful illustrations from German artist Ali Mitgutsch. The goal is to explore each detailed scene, in search of specific clues, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Professor Kim – What’s Missing Here?
Review Excerpt: Can you spot the missing sea creature, before the other player? This classification experience presents this type of simple early logic challenge, starting with smaller, ...
LEGO Creationary
Review Excerpt: This is a timed guessing game, that lets you earn points by correctly identifying which object is being constructed (out of Lego blocks, naturally) on the screen. The ...
Great Cookie Thief, The
Review Excerpt: This is a 12 screen iPad-based retelling of the 1977 Sesame Street book by Emily Perl Kingsley (illustrated by Michael Smollin).
The setting is an Old West town plagued ...
Bugs and Bubbles Earns a Rare 5 Star Rating
Bugs and Bubbles, $2.99, by Little Bit Studio, LLC http://itunes.apple.com/app/bugs-and-bubbles/id500195730?ls=1&mt=8
Fun, fast and good for building emerging math skills, Bugs ...
PrestoBingo Shapes
Review excerpt: How many circles can you find in a puzzle? This “I SPY” like shape finding game contains 12 puzzles. The objective is to touch the shapes to find them. For ...
HappyKids – Veterinarian
Review excerpt: Turn your iPad into a vet’s office, with this collection of 24 short activities. The idea is to take care of six animals (two dogs, two cats, a parrot, and a cockatoo) ...
Farm School
Review excerpt: This is a collection of matching and hide-and-seek games, based on farm animals. Each screen contains a simple matching activity. For example, a child might be asked ...
Peek-a-Zoo
Review excerpt: Here’s another solid Duck Duck Moose app. The idea is to present younger children with a narrated question, such as “who is upside down?” They then ...
Oddballz Circus
Review excerpt: Mix-and-match different heads, bodies and legs of animals, in order to make a match. To change a part, you swipe. As more characters are created, more surprises are ...
I SPY Castle
Review excerpt: As with other I SPY titles, the riddles form the basis of the castle theme. They also hide 12 mini games and three logic puzzles. The more riddles you solve, the more ...
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
Review excerpt: This game came from an extremely non-educational company, called Double Fine, best known for games that the ESRB says are not for children. See for example, Brütal ...
Poky Little Puppy, The
Review excerpt: Adapted directly from the printed Golden Book with the same title, by Janette Debring Lawrey, this is a 23 page, 12 screen ebook (two “pages” per screen). ...
Blue Hat, Green Hat
Review excerpt: Blue Hat, Green Hat is another interactive adaptation of a toddler board book, by author Sandra Boynton. Each page lets children combine colored hats, shirts, shorts ...
Toca Tea Party
Review excerpt: Turn your iPad into a top-down view of a tea party complete with slurps and spills, with a real-looking set of tea cups, juice glasses, pastries and so on. Your child ...
iLearn With The Mighty Jungle: Animals! HD 1.0
Review excerpt: Designed to introduce deductive reasoning using animal attributes, this App give clues such as “lives near water” or “has smooth skin” to help ...
Jellytoons Toddler Skills: Bobo’s Birthday Challenge
Review excerpt: Six sorting and memory games are presented by way of animated jellybean characters in this first of a planned series of apps for younger children. In the game, you help ...
Sesame Street: Elmo’s A-to-Zoo Adventure
Review excerpt: This collection of 16 tightly scripted, one player games is designed to introduce typical school readiness concepts to a young child. In the Wii version, children hold ...
Go George Go!
Review excerpt: Go George Go! consists of two play patterns: Dress Up and Mazes. You start by dressing up George with an outfit by dragging and dropping different uniform parts into ...
Dinosaur Train Eggspress
Review excerpt: Featuring characters from the Jim Henson Company TV show, The Dinosaur Train, children start by finding hidden dinosaur eggs in a scene in this app. Next comes a multiple-choice ...
PBS Kids Play! (www.pbskidsplay.org)
Review excerpt: This year’s edition is based entirely in Flash, so no downloads or installations are needed. All you need is a Mac or Windows computer and a speedy web connection.There’s ...
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox
Review Excerpt: Five bite-sized games feature a chatty, quirky little monkey, who serves as the coach and instruction giver. Content includes concentration, color matching (touch all ...
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Review Excerpt: Duck Duck Moose’s fourth app contains two nursery rhymes woven into one app: Baa Baa Black Sheep and Row Your Boat. There are three ways your child can navigate ...
Pickin’ Time
Review Excerpt: How many times can you touch a target in 60 seconds? That’s the challenge of this fast-paced matching game for one to four players, that runs on the iPad, iPhone ...
Little People Farm Toys
Featuring good music and bad design, this preschool app starts with a view of a farm that was modeled after the original Little People farm toy set. Various items launch short animated ...
Disney Fairies Fly on iPad (Version 1.0.0)
Review Excerpt: Strikingly beautiful graphics, a fun format, but limited game play and content are the hallmarks of the iPad version of Disney Fairies Fly (called just “Fairies ...
Chronicles of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple
Review Excerpt: In the story, you help Sylvie Leroux, a young archaeologist, as she travels to Malta at the request of her uncle, a world renowned historian. When she arrives, she discovers ...
Hello Kitty Party
Review Excerpt: This collection of 25 minigames is organized into six happy themes, all available through six numbered tabs on the top of the touch screen.
In the Invitation Game, children ...
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