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Goodnight ABC
Review Excerpt: This interactive alphabet lets children freely explore 26 screens (one screen per letter), each containing a dozen or so interactive hot spots. Each screen has a day ...
ABC Airplane
Review Excerpt: Letter tracing is more fun when you have your own set of drawing tools, especially when one is a pretty monarch butterfly who leaves a trail of flowers as you trace ...
Look & Learn: Animal Alphabet
Review Excerpt: Six activities combine letter recognition concepts with animals themes. Content includes 60 animals, 100 photographs, animal facts and sound effects. Games include A ...
ABC Theater: Alphabet Song
Review Excerpt: This app is set in a puppet show. By tracing each letter, children help a letter-themed puppet come to life to act out a short letter-related skit. The app begins with ...
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 ...
Write My Name
Review excerpt: This app is designed to help children learn to write their own letters and words using the correct sequence and strokes by tracing uppercase and lowercase letters. Features ...
Alphabeast
Review excerpt: This is a simple flash card app based on the Irish illustrator Chris Judge’s picture book, featuring The Lonely Beast. The 26 interactive hand-drawn scenes feature ...
Kumon Uppercase ABC’s – Learn to Trace Letters
Review excerpt: Carefully constructed and very didactic (controlled) this letter tracing app contains two activities specifically designed to teach children to write uppercase letters ...
Fingerprint Play Maker
Review excerpt: This is part of a series of apps that feature a new Mom-Comm tracking mechanism, that lets you look over the should on what your child does using Facebook or email. ...
Antique ABCs
Review excerpt: The contents of this app are based on 26 hand-engraved alphabet prints made by the famous German lithographer Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810-1896). There are three modes: ...
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 ...
Rocket Math
Review excerpt: Here’s a fun twist on math drills that uses a tried and true metaphor– rockets, to keep things interesting. You start by building a rocket by dragging and ...
Leapster Explorer: Disney Princess Pop-Up Story Adventures
Review excerpt: This new format Leapster cartridge (for Leapster Explorer only) targets girls with seven princess-themed games. As you flip through pages of the book, reading-related ...
Preschool Connect the Dots Game (App)
Review Excerpt: What could be better than an old-fashioned dot-to-dot puzzle? A touch-screen version, naturally. To connect the dots, children touch the letters or numerals in sequential ...
Zippity Disney/Pixar Cars
Review Excerpt: One of three themed cartridges that extend the Zippity. By jumping on the mat, children fill in potholes; faster jumps equals fuller holes. Other titles in the series ...
Alphabet Soup
Review Excerpt: Designed to look like a pot of soup, this battery-operated phonics toy comes with an attached talking spoon that prompts children to find the letters needed to spell ...
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