Wouldn’t it just be monstrous if you sat down to read a fairy tale to your child and all of the letters had disappeared? That is just what little Moon Mouse discovers when he settles down to his bedtime story. To make matters worse the letters in his book were stolen by a group of [...]
Now, this is an interesting and exciting app! Collins Big Cat: It Was a Cold, Dark Night Story Creator is not only a book – it is an app that allows children to create their own story! I loved the ingenuity of the idea of having children read a story and then be able to [...]
The Word Zoo apps for iPad are a series of stories that have been developed to teach children their first 100 key words. The illustrations in the apps are colorful, zany and entertaining. The Word Zoo is unlike any zoo I’ve ever visited and I’m not a zoo lover so that’s not a bad thing! [...]
The Oolly App has been developed for preschoolers and is designed to help them work on their fine motor skills. Here are some of the apps features: Practice and improve fine motor skills and pre writing skills by pinching and dragging objects in four different levels! Learn more than 70 new words and their correct [...]
Discovering Klimt is an interactive children’s book based on the artwork of Gustav Klimt. The story feature in Discovering Klimt is called “Mommy, Are You Sleeping”, and is about a little girl and her mother’s conversation about the beauty of dreams. Klimt’s paintings are brought to life through a narrative that makes them relatable to [...]
Tales of Midlandia storybook series is pleased to announce their updated version of the Pirate Koostoe adventure. This app, created specifically for iPad, follows young Koostoe on his adventure to become a pirate. While he discovers that life may not give him exactly what he dreamed, he can find the treasure in what he has. [...]
MathLands says it was designed for kids ages 7 to 77 but I’m thinking that I must have the Math abilities of a three year old because these puzzles had me stumped! To be fair I’ve never been very good at logic puzzles and problem solving and that’s exactly what this iPad app is made [...]
Scribble Press is a free iPad app that lets you unleash your imagination to create drawings and books. Let’s start with the drawings. Users are provided with a blank piece of “paper” and oodles of colored markers. I watched my toddler use the app and she figured out the marker selection process in no time. [...]
Bunny Popper is one of those fun games that requires some quick finger work on the iPad screen. The game’s premise is that inflatable bunnies from outer space are invading a carrot farm. To save the carrots you’ve got to pop the bunnies before they reach the carrots. The bunnies run towards you, as if [...]
SpeakColorsHD is a speech therapy app that has been developed for toddlers who have speech and language delays, Autism, Down Syndrome and other developmental disorders. The app presents seven colors and two hundred different objects, all are one of those seven colors. The app has two main modes – Phrases and Sentences. In Phrases children [...]
WebMD Baby was released earlier this month and it is awesome! Seriously one of the best “baby” apps I’ve seen to date
iOS 5 Gets Its First Update Thanks to my husband Zack for getting this post out about the new iOS 5.1 release. I’ve yet to install the update…but I’ll be following his instructions below. Shortly after the iPhone 4S hit the market a bug was discovered that severely impacted battery life on those new devices. [...]
I review iPhone apps for moms. I have a decent grasp of techy things but the technical guts (for lack of a better word) of how the apps work are beyond me. So my reviews will be practical and purely subjective. Reviews for moms by a real life, actual mom. My kids will vouch for me.