Posts Tagged ‘Reading Fun’

Friday Findings

Price: $1.99 ~ See Little Fox Gets His Wish in the App Store Animal School – card & puzzle pack – Animal School, will delight your kids with 20 animated animal flash cards and 5 puzzles in all in one app! … Price: $2.99 ~ See The Blue Jackal – An Interactive Tale from Panchatantra in the App Store ABC – Clamp Monkey – ABC-Clamp Monkey is a fun way for kids to learn letter shapes and build words.

 

Rindin & Giveaway

The new Rindin app by CrocPond helps to teach young children tolerance and that our differences are what make us special. Based on the book of the same name, Rindin features an animated movie, the storybook, and a game. Rindin is a small puffer fish who is teased by the other fish because he looks [...]

 

Rumplestiltskin HD – A 3D Children’s Interactive Storybook

The classic Grimm Brothers’ fairytale comes to life in this new app by Silicon Beach Software, Inc. Rumplestiltskin HD- A 3D Children’s Interactive Storybook, tells the story of Arabella, a young woman who with the help of Rumplestiltskin becomes a princess. For his help Rumplestiltskin asks a terrible price unless Arabella can guess his name. [...]

 

Off to bed!

Off to bed! is an ideal bedtime book for toddlers and preschoolers. This delightful interactive story follows a young child as they go to bed and drift off to a world of enchanting dreams. Soothing lullaby music plays throughout as your little one tucks the young child into bed and sends them off on their [...]

 
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Friday Findings

BigLittleBrother – This charming interactive storybook app for kids ages 3-7 traces a familiar arc from sibling rivalry to brotherly love. 
Being an older brother has its benefits, of that there’s little doubt. But how would you feel if your little brother grew to be bigger than you? And what if he insisted on touching [...]

 

Curly Hair, Straight Hair

Do you ever have those days where you can tell where you have been and what you’ve done by the look of your hair? Curly Hair, Straight Hair is a darling digital book that tells the story of a little girl by following what happens to her hair throughout the day. In the morning when [...]

 

Llama Llama Red Pajama

Other reviews of this app had complaints about the page turn button not working properly; I did not experience any problem of this sort, but did notice that the app requires iOS 5.0 or higher to work properly. I was very impressed by the Spanish feature of this app; it not only changes the written words to Spanish, but if you have the Read to Me feature turned on, it also changes the narration.

 

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David and Goliath for the iPad (The M.V.P. Edition)

Jumping Pages has created a David and Goliath for the iPad with amazing animated 3D illustrations. They will catch a reader’s interest as they move and seem to pop out from the screen. Many of the pages also have an interactive element to them and things will happen when the screen is tapped or swiped. [...]

 

Cinderella – Nosy Crow

Nosy Crow has followed up their popular Three Little Pigs storybook app with an interactive twist on the Cinderella story. I could write this review with one sentence and it would simply say, “the app is delightful and you won’t regret the purchase”. This is exactly how I feel after diving into the app. The [...]

 

Bob Books #2 with Promo Codes!

A new set of Bob Books was recently released into the App Store. Bob Books #2 – Reading Magic is the follow up app to the first set of Bob Books. The new set includes twelve new scenes and more than fifty words. I thought the first app was great but the developers have made [...]

 
 
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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.