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Trip, The – Little Critter Reading Adventure
Review Excerpt: In this Mercer Meyer story, you start with a choice of the classic “just read” and “reading adventure” modes. The story is a good one … ...
Slice of Bread goes to the Beach
Review Excerpt: This 15 screen/page ebook tells the story of what happens when a slice of bread visits the beach. The animated effects support the story, which is written, narrated ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
iPoe Collection 1
Review Excerpt: Designed in Spain but available in English (or Spanish or French), this is a digital retelling of four of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories: The Oval Portrait, ...
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories
Review Excerpt: This is a collection of classic Dr. Suess stories that are hard to find in your traditional library. The headliner — “I Can Lick 30 Tigers” is the ...
Dr. Seuss’s Short Story Collection
Review Excerpt: This is an eight-pack of generally lesser-known Dr. Seuss titles, all in one $8 app. They include The Big Brag, Gertrude McFuzz, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!, King Looie ...
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 ...
Wince Don’t Feed the WorryBug
Review Excerpt: Based on the book, Don’t Feed The WorryBug by Andi Green, this app tells the story of a little monster named Wince who worries so much The WorryBug appears. Children ...
What Will I Be?
Review Excerpt: Wondering what you’ll be when you grow up? Now there’s an app for that. This 19 page eBook follows a predictable pattern, with about four animated surprises ...
Timun Mas (Golden Cucumber)
Review Excerpt: This is a traditional Indonesian folk story, about a brave girl who’s trying to escape from an evil Ogre. The app features illustrations, animations, music and interactivity, ...
Sight Words Learn to Read
Review Excerpt: Designed to teach your high frequency Dolch sight words, this app asks children to match the words by touching fish that contain words. Each fish is showcasing three ...
Pookie’s Snow Day
Review Excerpt: This is a very pleasant, beautifully illustrated experience, although it is limited in terms of content. Consisting of nine interactive screens by Kati Nawrocki, children ...
Find the Letters HD
Review Excerpt: Designed to provide practice discriminating between commonly reversed letters, this is a large set of leveled hidden picture puzzles. The picture is hidden behind a ...
Alphabet Animals: A Slide and Seek Adventure
Review Excerpt: Letters are turned into illustrated animals in this simple alphabet-book app. The app features the art of Suse MacDonald (the celebrated children’s illustrator). ...
A Troop is a Group of Monkeys
Review Excerpt: This app is designed to introduce a very specialized set of vocabulary words: plural nouns for animal groups (such as “a pride of lions” and “a parliament ...
Wreck-It Ralph Storybook Deluxe
Review Excerpt: While this isn’t our favorite Disney Storybook Deluxe app, it’s still very solid, and it offers a nice extension of the candy and cookie themed racing movie. ...
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 ...
Scott’s Polar Trip
Review Excerpt: In this original story, Scott arrives at the North Pole on his submarine, accompanied by Jazz the cat. In the story, a Inuit boy named Inook helps Scott, and shows him ...
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 ...
Clifford’s BIG Birthday
Review Excerpt: Children explore Clifford’s doghouse as they work together to set up a surprise party for Clifford’s birthday. This app looks good but it acts a lot like it ...
Brave: Storybook Deluxe
Review Excerpt: This is a 36 screen interactive app adaptation of the now Academy Award winning movie. Each narrated page is sandwiched between nicely crafted animated transitions that ...
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 ...
7 Little Words for Kids
Review Except: What’s another word for an old dinosaur bone? How about a sweet treat? The answer is hidden in a 4 x 4 grid of word squares, each with a bit of a word such as FO, ...
Victorious: Taking the Lead
Review Excerpt: Based on the Nickelodeon television show starring Victoria Justice, this game lets you play as Tori Vega as you hang out with the Hollywood Arts crew and try to win ...
Story Toys Jr. Farm 123
Review Excerpt: This is one of a series from Irish-based StoryToys. This particular story mixes farm animals with an all-to-common counting theme. You can herd chickens to hear them ...
Sofia the First
Review Excerpt: This animated story is narrated by ABC Modern Family’s Ariel Winter, and the other characters of the TV show, as well as Sara Ramirez from Grey’s Anatomy ...
The Opposites
Review Excerpt: Do you know what ‘efficacious’ means? Just what exactly is the opposite of ‘bear’? This word sorting game provides practice with opposing words. ...
Monkey Word School Adventure
Review Excerpt: This app features six bite-sized phonics and word recognition games. Each activity features a monkey who jumps around the screen. As you play each game you can earn ...
Just Going To The Dentist
Review Excerpt: This app, based on the Mercer Mayer print book, is about Little Critter’s visit to Dr. Ghum (played by a male hippo — the assistant is female). When he ...
Endless Alphabet
Review Excerpt: This app playfully introduces each letter, and shows children how the letters can be combined, like a jigsaw puzzle, to make words. Each letter becomes animated, sounds ...
500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Review Excerpt: This 1938 story was inspired after Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) took a train ride behind a gentleman wearing a fancy hat. In the story, a young poor boy has the magical ...
Laloo the Red Panda
Review Excerpt: This 30 screen animated story comes with an environmental, “save an endangered species” agenda. The animal is the red panda, and the story is about how a ...
Kindergarten Reading
Review Excerpt: This app features nine fast-paced early reading activities designed to introduce and reinforce the first sight words, like dog, cat and zoo. The games feature Milo the ...
Elmo Story Collection
Review Excerpt: Six digitized Sesame Street books are housed in one starter library, called Elmo’s Bookshelf, in this bite-sized portion of the subscription-based Sesame Street ...
Oh the Pets You Can Get
Review Excerpt: This is another solid addition to Oceanhouse Media’s “The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library.” If you’ve used any previous Oceanhouse Media ...
Red Fox at Hickory Lane
Review Excerpt: Another in the Smithsonian series of science-related apps, this app tells the story of Mother and Father Fox as they teach their four cubs to hunt, escape danger and ...
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 ...
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