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Tale of a Snowflake, The
Review Excerpt: This eBook introduces children to the concept of the water cycle. In the story, a little girl captures a talking snowflake, who explains how she started as a drop of ...
Quigley the Caterpillar
Review Excerpt: In the story, Quigley the caterpillar meets a beautiful butterfly named Bertina. Now Quigley sees himself as plain and wants to fly gracefully like Bertina and will ...
Sid the Science Kid – Sid’s Slide to the Side
Review Excerpt: Sid has a problem — his new sneakers have too much friction. This problem is described in two narrated stories, presented in a way that you help Sid the Science ...
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 ...
Dynastid Beetle
Review Excerpt: Dynastid Beetle is divided into seven sections: Body, Habitat, How They Move, Raise a Dynastid Beetle, Battle, Quiz and Video. In case you’re wondering Dynastid ...
Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night
Every child wonders about bats. Here’s an excellent app for helping them to satisfy their curiosity. Created by Ellen Jacob, Bats! Furry Flyers of the Night is an interactive ...
Meet the Insects: Village Edition
Review Excerpt: This second edition interactive encyclopedia contains 30 insects commonly found around urban and suburban settings. The first app covered 30 forest insects that are ...
LittleBits
Review Excerpt: LittleBits is a system of modular electronics that snap together with magnets. Each block, or module, has a unique function. There are several types of switches, LED ...
Color Uncovered
Review Excerpt: Turn your iPad into a hands-on exhibit right out of San Francisco’s Exploratorium with this collection of 16 light/color experiments. There are sixteen topics ...
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 ...
Rounds: Parker Penguin
Review Excerpt: The second in the a series of non-fiction apps that deal with life-cycles, Rounds: Parker Penguin lets children participate in a G-rated version of each stage of penguin ...
Be There: Yosemite
Review Excerpt: Supplement your trip to Yosemite next summer, with a preview of what you might see, with your choice of ten 360 degree panoramas located in Yosemite Valley. The app ...
Ranger Rick Jr. Appventures: Lions
Review Excerpt: This collaboration of Moonbot Studios (see: Morris Lessmore) and the editors of Ranger Rick Jr. Magazine mixes real information about Lions (how they eat, sound and ...
Otter on his Own
Review Excerpt: This app follows a familiar Oceanhouse Media script. Start with an original book, and let children touch the illustrations or words to hear them read out loud, and labeled. ...
Zoomy Handheld Digital Microscope
Review Excerpt: This handheld digital microscope displays images of up to 43x magnification. Features include: designed to fit easily in a child’s hand; one-touch photo and video ...
Tizzy Seasons
Review Excerpt: Designed to let children freely explore four seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter). In Spring, children can feed the birds in their very own birdhouse, plant ...
Kinect Nat Geo TV
Review Excerpt: We’ve all grown used to the notion of watching TV. Now it can watch you back, providing you have one of two Kinect titles — Kinect Sesame Street TV, or Kinect ...
Rounds: Franklin Frog
Review Excerpt: This innovative app stretches the definition of ebook, with a dash of Nosy Crow irreverence. Rounds: Franklin Frog is the first title in a series of non-fiction apps ...
NASA Rocket Science 101
Review Excerpt: Can you match the rocket, and all it’s components, with the NASA space mission? If so, you can get your satellite (or Mars rover) into orbit. If not, your rocket ...
Ice is Nice
Review Excerpt: Here’s another solid addition to the Oceanhouse Media’s “The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library.” Ice is Nice is designed to introduce basic ...
Gems and Jewels
Review Excerpt: Similar in design to “The Elements” (one of the first iPad apps, also by Touch Press), Gems and Jewels lets you explore the large collection of glittering ...
Explorer Game Cartridge: Phineas and Ferb
Review Excerpt: This arcade-style game cartridge is designed for new LeapPad and Leapster Explorers (both this year and last year). It will not work on the original Leapster. In the ...
Butterflies HD
Review Excerpt: Designed to let children explore the life cycle of butterflies, this app is a loose collection of slides, movies and facts related to each stage of butterfly development: ...
Monster Physics
Review excerpt: This invention construction kit contains 50 puzzles sorted into five challenge categories. In addition, an open-ended “build” mode lets you freely experiment ...
Trucks by Duck Duck Moose
Review excerpt: Playful yet powerful, here’s another easy, solid app from Duck Duck Moose. The five activities give you plenty to do. You can wash a car after a trip through ...
La Forêt Mes Premières Découvertes
Review excerpt: La Forêt by Gallimard Jeunesse features clear, hand drawn, labeled illustrations, professional French narration, and a well designed table of contents. Features include ...
Barefoot World Atlas
Review excerpt: Featuring a 3D spinning globe interface, this children’s atlas makes it possible to zoom in and pull out of a globe view, and to explore surface-level facts and ...
Tick Bait’s Universe
Review excerpt: This is a power of 10 app, that lets you explore the really big and the extremely small. You start with a view of a back yard, with a dirty dog named Tick Bait. You ...
Oh Say Can You Say Di-No-Saur?
Review excerpt: This is the second in the The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series. Cat in the Hat is the host (and the narrator) who takes us on a fictional expedition to ...
Inside the World of Dinosaurs
Review excerpt: This dinosaur encyclopedia contains a library of 60 animated, roaring dinosaurs, as well as biographical facts on a set of famous dinosaur hunters. You can either ...
Bugs and Buttons
Review excerpt: Once you get past the idea of touching the swarms of realistic roaches, ants, or bees, children quickly fall for this collection of 18 counting and classification activities. ...
X is for X-Ray
Review excerpt: What does the inside of a seashell look like? What about an insect, a motorcycle or an iPad? Here’s an app that lets you find out. The app contrasts two images ...
Painting With Time
Review excerpt: Helping a child understand long term temporal relationships — things like how a plant grows or how a glacier retreats — has always been a challenge for a ...
There’s No Place Like Space
Review excerpt: Stretching the term “non-fiction,” The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library is an ebook adaptation of the Dr. Seuss series, done in classic Oceanhouse Media ...
Jim Henson’s Sid’s Science Fair
Review excerpt: Put a science center in your iPad, with this collection of three activities, featuring Sid the Science Kid characters. Following a noisy introduction — just like ...
Bobo Explores Light
Review excerpt: Bobo Explores Light is an example of how an app can let children aged 7-up play with — and better understand – an abstract concept; in this case light. ...
SpyClops Bionic Eye
Review excerpt: First released in 2007 under the name “EyeClops TV Microscope” by Jakks Pacific, this year’s edition has been simplified once again. To use, you put ...
It’s Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Review excerpt: Based on the Palm/Smithsonian book, written by Dawn Bentley and illustrated by wildlife and natural history artist Karen Carr, It’s Tyrannosaurus Rex! is a prehistoric ...
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