Following up their innovative Tea Party app for iPad and iPhone, Toca Boca have unwrapped a birthday party version that adds a few surprises to the brilliant, already established template. Included in this festive, multi-finger imaginative play app are party favors with confetti to pop, a gift for the birthday […]
PICTUREBOOK The rudimentary design of Picturebook won’t have you drooling – its template is very basic – but this iPad & iPhone app is just perfect for young, hopeful storytellers. The 4.25-year old Mouse, who cannot yet spell much beyond cat/mom/dad & her own name, is using the Picturebook app […]
MY WORD WALL A nifty, multi-faceted application for early readers available for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad. Within the game burgeoning spellers will identify letters, assemble words, complete word-based jigsaw puzzles, and play several seek & finds. They will also hear the letters and words repeated phonetically. My Word Wall […]
Waaaaay back when I was gainfully employed, I worked at a corporation that had an in-house school. They actually call it, without the slightest bit of sarcasm, a University. I took a class there once called Learners, There Is A Difference. There may not have been that comma, but the […]
Hildegard the hippo loves to sing opera and dreams of the spotlight. But really, who doesn’t? When her opportunity finally comes, there’s just one teensy weensy problem: she loses her voice. Murphy’s law apparently applies to immense African mammals too. That’s kinda reassuring, isn’t it? The story of Hildegard reminds […]
Spent any time in the iTunes app store recently? There isn’t a short supply of coloring/painting/doodling apps for adults and kids alike. I reckon it’s terribly hard to stand out. HeyHey Colors does for us because of it’s clean lines, odd cartoon coloring “pages”, and ease of use for even […]
My PlayHome is the clever, uniquely 21st century digital take on those Melissa & Doug magnet figure sets, the classic but flimsy paper dolls, and even your grandmother’s stately dollhouse, with flawlessly executed gameplay including multi-touch capacity for eager siblings and their dueling fingers. This is as close to perfect […]
The Princess Arabella Wants To Play iPad storybook app, based on the books by Mylo Freeman, is a captivating long-form story complimented by bold watercolor paintings that’s as engrossing as any traditional children’s book we’ve read recently. That there is some subtle interaction – shake the device and tree monkeys […]
