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 [...]
Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventures – Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventures is an interactive journey; an exciting combination of a maze and a ‘search and find’ puzzle game that the whole family can enjoy. Your journey starts by driving a car. Find your way through the different land and cityscapes and stumble upon challenges where you might [...]
Flori the Giraffe is back in a new app that mixes story with activities. In Flori’s Adventure readers will meet Flori’s friends: Tino the monkey, Zebri the zebra, Mia the flamingo and Nala the elephant. In this story Flori is helping Tino find his lost tools so he can work on a building project. As [...]
Joy Preschool Games – Animated Dictionary: 100 Most Common Verbs Spelling & Learning Game For Kids – Animated Dictionary provides 101 of the most common verbs in English, Germany, Spain and France organized alphabetically. You can spell it, learn it and play with it in each of the 4 languages. Every verb is spelled and [...]
The good folks at Auryn, Inc. have been busy lately! Here are four new apps that they have recently released. Auryn HD – I, Trixie, who is dog – I, Trixie, who is dog is based on Dean Koontz’ book by the same name. Not everyone can be a dog. Some must be people. Some [...]
The Kid’s *Books* Store is a children’s bookstore app for your iPad. What makes this one a little bit different is the fact that in addition to letting you enjoy purchased stories you can also create your own books. You’ll find a variety of books available for download in the bookstore and each comes with [...]
Price: $2.99 ~ See Kids Numbers and Math in the App Store MyHoneyBee – A fun, interactive app for younger children, MyHoneyBee encourages children to create a virtual garden and reap the rewards of their efforts. … Price: FREE ~ See b.bear abc in the App Store ABC Coloring Book – June Blossom – June Blossom ABC Coloring Book is an effective tool for children to learn to read the alphabet while coloring illustrations, applying stickers to their creations, and playing with interactive alphabet blocks.
The Artifacts is a digital story with a unique look. The illustrations are very much like art with a blending of several different styles and then animation added to some of the screens. The story tells of a boy named Asaf who liked to collect a little bit of everything. His collections take over his [...]
Classical tales: 3 little pigs – The Three Little Pigs for iPad has been designed for children 3 to 5 years old. The story can be listened to in Italian, English, French or Spanish, or if you prefer the voice-over feature can be turned on or off.. Twenty-four pages with original graphics help your child [...]
Sight Words Hangman puts a twist on the classic game of Hangman. Instead of guessing hidden words children must correctly identify sight words to prevent the hangman from appearing. There are over 250 sight words to choose from, organized into 27 lists. A list is selected and children are shown four words. The app says [...]
My 9 year old daughter told me about an iOS 5 feature that I was totally unaware of until last week. Miss S. showed me how to set up individual text tones for my contacts.
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.