Flower Power is hangman with flowers. Instead of drawing a hangman (which is really quite icky when you think about it) you have a flower that loses it’s petals each time you choose an incorrect letter. The app will show you the number of letters in each word and then you tap the letters you [...]

Belindra is a quirky storybook app. As you go through the story you can tap on cherries scattered around the scenes. When you do this something will happens on the screen. I enjoyed these animations. The story is about helping others and has a good moral. The illustrations are unique and fun to look at. [...]

Any Word World fans out there? Guess what….they’ve now got an iPhone app called Build a World. It’s a gorgeous app featuring the characters from the PBS show. Letters bounce around your iPhone screen and you’ve got a word to build. Drag the letters to their outlines on the screen then use your finger to [...]

Let’s begin right away by stating that the potbelly of the title refers to an adorable little pig. Just so you know this isn’t a story about an individual who possesses both pigtails and a potbelly. That story would just be wrong. This one is very right. Pigtails & Potbellies tells of the adventures Gretchen [...]

McPea Preschool is designed for toddlers and preschoolers and it features three different activities.  Pop n’ Count puts Junior McPea in a Jack-in-the-box, the music plays and he pops up with some fruit to count. Your child taps the fruit to help Junior count it all. Anyone else get tense when they hear Jack-in-the-box music [...]

I don’t know what’s more adorable about Spelling Soup – the illustrations or the sweet English girls who narrate it. Listening to them made me smile! In this app you see an illustration and hear the girls say the word. Tap “flip over” and there are letters on the screen. The letters have to be [...]

The Reading Bug is another title from the  iStorytime collection. I loved the message behind this story. A chameleon wants to catch the “Reading Bug” so he can learn how to read. He looks to his favorite bug catching friends for help but it’s no use. Eventually he winds up at the library where what [...]

Pocket Phonics is chock full of phonics fun and I love it. There are multiple sections to this app. Your child can listen to letter sounds and tap the letter they belong to. The letters are put in groups of six. (You can read more about why this is under the help section of the [...]

The name of this app, Happy Baby, is deceptive because it’s actually an alphabet flashcard app. So it’s more like Happy Preschooler but that doesn’t have quite the same ring. Happy Baby displays the alphabet, one letter at a time. No frills or graphics, just a big letter on the screen. The idea behind this [...]

Out of the blue tonight my son says to me “Mom, have you seen Monkey Preschool Lunchbox?” Cracked me up that it was “Monkey Preschool Lunchbox” instead of “The Monkey App”. I said yes I had seen it. Then he says to me, “That one’s funny”. And it is. My kids all seem to get [...]