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Ruff’s Bone
Review Excerpt: This is an updated iPad edition of the classic Living Book. If you’re in your early 20s, you might recall the CD-ROM edition of the story. Ruff loves his “Sunday ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
TenseBuilder
Review Excerpt: Designed for classroom settings for teaching tense forms (past, present or future), this app contains a set of 36 animated, sometimes funny cartoon-style videos that ...
Sesame Street Elmo’s Musical Monsterpiece The Videogame
Review Excerpt: Excellent Sesame Street programming is sandwiched between 18 clumsy games that deal with basic musical concepts. For the Wii version, you hold the Wii Controller handlebar ...
Sonnets by William Shakespeare, The
Review Excerpt: The Sonnets by William Shakespeare is a collection of 154 readings performed by famous actors and Shakespeare scholars. As you listen, you can watch the score of the ...
Es Así (It is so)
Review excerpt: Created in Mexico, this story deals with a hard but necessary subject; death and dying (or coming and going). The conclusion, after about 14 watercolor and color collage ...
Being Global
Review excerpt: This 24 screen app is adapted from a printed book by Rana DiOrio, illustrated by Chris Hill. The app addresses the question, “what does it mean to be global?” ...
Bilingual Child
Review excerpt: Designed to expose very young children to Spanish and English, this app lets you build basic Spanish vocabulary as you interact with Lucy (who speaks English) and Carlos ...
Adventures of Robin Hood, The
Review excerpt: New from French publisher So Ouat! (now named Chocolapps), a rendition of Adventures of Robin Hood, in the form of a 25 page/screen retelling of the classic story, complete ...
Celebrating Michelle Obama
Review excerpt: This 14 page ebook for the iPad or iPhone glosses over the life of Michelle Obama, from birth through the White House. Each page contains a fun fact, consisting of a ...
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