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Little Red Riding Hood
Review Excerpt: This interactive edition of Little Red Riding Hood is full of surprises. Don’t worry — the classic foreshadowing of being eaten by the wolf has been preserved ...
Fairytale Maze 123
Review Excerpt: This is a collection of 20 mazes, each designed around a popular fairytale theme. In one maze, you lead the prince to Rapunzel; in another you help the three little ...
Disney Princess Cinderella
Review Excerpt: This is a solid retelling of Disney’s Cinderella, with three modes, (read it myself, read to me, and record my voice). Content includes a sing-a-long to the classic ...
Hive Activity Centre, The
Review Excerpt: Five activities feature the animated bee characters from the Disney Junior TV show. There’s a jigsaw puzzle, a game of concentration, racing, coloring and a spot ...
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, ...
Gro Memo
Review Excerpt: This game of concentration uses 29 animated routines that have an environmental theme. The more you play, the more levels you can unlock. There are no third-party advertising ...
Sneaky Sam
Review Excerpt: Featuring colorful illustrations by Australian Binny Talib (www.binny.com.au), this 11 screen story is about a boy who likes to cause mischief by spraying a cat with ...
Thinkin’ Things 1: Toony the Loon’s Lagoon
Review Excerpt: Back in the days of mono-touch and non-HD graphics, Thinkin’ Things was cutting edge. The first edition scored 5 stars back in 1993; one of the first and few software ...
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. ...
Disney Winnie the Pooh Wonder and Wander
Review Excerpt: Winnie the Pooh takes on a modern, collage-style look with this collection of five generic games. Activities include a Simon-says game with musical animals, a coloring ...
Animal Farm 3 in 1
Review Excerpt: This app features three games that feature farm animals. Sticker is an animal sticker play-set, where children drag and drop to place the funny animals on the farm. ...
Pokémon White Version 2
Review Excerpt: Good news for Pokemon fans: two versions of Pokémon for Nintendo DS, with backward compatibility with previous Pokémon games. Our seasoned players gave them both a ...
Pokémon Black Version 2
Review Excerpt: Featuring some new sharing options and new worlds to explore, this is one of two Pokémon titles that our testers called “the same game, with different covers.” ...
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 ...
Where’s My Perry
Review Excerpt: This logic puzzle is based on the “Where’s My Water” format. It features first-rate Disney characters and music from Disney’s Phineas & Ferb ...
Swan Lake, The
Review Excerpt: This is an ebook version inspired from the Tchaikovsky ballet Swan Lake, complete with narration and orchestrated background music. The story follows the ballet, as ...
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 ...
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 ...
Look in My Eyes Restaurant
Review excerpt: This a memory game designed to provide practice making eye contact, or “eye contact skills.” It is designed for use with children with special needs, specifically ...
Jack and the Beanstalk
Review excerpt: This is a 32 screen rendition of Jack and the Beanstalk that follows the original story line, with audio narration, read-along text, and some interactive features. Created ...
Putt Putt Saves the Zoo (iPad)
Review excerpt: This title has been rereleased several times over the years (this is the 16th Putt Putt title in our database). In 2008, it was sold at retail computers.
In case you ...
PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond
Review excerpt: A cross between a Pokémon game and Animal Crossing (with a bit of “Carnival Games” tossed in), PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond lets you play as one of four ...
Kinectimals (for iPad)
Review excerpt: With a look and feel that is nearly identical to the Kinect edition of the game, Kinectimals for iPad lets you pet, bathe and teach your large baby cats. The more you ...
Professor Layton and the Last Specter
Review excerpt: The fourth in the Professor Layton puzzle series, this game is set three years before the events in Professor Layton and the Curious Village. In the story, Professor ...
Eddy’s Number Party, The
Review excerpt: This app features four levels, ranging from counting (drag a set of balloons to the matching numeral) to a game of concentration that involves matching sets of dots ...
Scribblenauts Remix
Review excerpt: As with other editions of Scribblenauts, children use language to unlock puzzles, by typing in the items they need. Need to kill a shark? Type “hair dryer” ...
Nikoli’s Pencil Puzzle
Review excerpt: This is a collection of 600 puzzles for one player. Games include Sudoku – the classic numbers game in 3D; Bridges – link all the islands on the screen with ...
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Review excerpt: This one player Zelda game turns your Wii into a flying, sword-fighting puzzle solving adventure, complete with problem solving opportunities and reading. Note the ...
Big Kid Life: Fairy Princess
Review excerpt: This is one of the four new free FingerPrint apps created by former Leapfrog executive Nancy MacIntyre. See also Big Kid Life: Firefighter. In this title, children are ...
Sing N’ Match: Head To Toes!
Review excerpt: This app is designed to introduce children to parts of the body. There are three screens: Learn, Match and Compose. Learn lets children watch and listen; Match lets ...
Puss in Boots: The Video Game
Review excerpt: We tried the Kinect version of Puss in Boots: The Video Game, and quickly became exhausted — in a good way — as we kicked, waved our arms, balanced, strummed ...
Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident
Review excerpt: In this seek and solve game you must unravel the mystery behind the Malgrave Island by using the Wii Remote to search for clues, solve puzzles and find concealed items ...
Memory (Pairs Matching Game)
Review excerpt: This game of concentration features three challenge levels — a 4×2 grid with 4 pairs of picture cards; a 6×4 grid with 12 pairs; and an 8×5 grid ...
Injini Child Development Game Suite
Review excerpt: Nine carefully crafted, multi-level learning games are designed for young children with special needs. But they could be used in regular ECE settings as well. Designed ...
HearBuilder Software Series
Review excerpt: This CD based series of four titles features a set of exercises drill with arcade-style games. There are four titles: Phonological Awareness, Following Directions, Sequencing, ...
Chuck and Friends: Friends for the Long Haul
Review excerpt: This 70 page/screen book contains embedded spelling games. In the story, Chuck and friends are playing a game of chase when they encounter Flip, a new vehicle in the ...
Olivia the Great (eBook for iPad)
Review excerpt: This app features Olivia, a talking pig who is also a magician, as featured on the Nickelodeon show. Content includes 16 magic tricks, each performed by gliding your ...
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