Build cars, race them, unlock new auto parts and tracks; the Mouse’s new favorite iPad app provides all of that fun in a crisp interface allowing young children to quickly construct sensible, or completely ridiculous, vehicles, before zooming around one of three racetracks. As a child progresses through Build Cars […]
MAX AND THE MAGIC MARKER for Nintendo DS by Cooper McHatton Max and this Magic Marker is already a brilliant game on the iPhone and on the Wii. How does the new DS version stack up? The Story Begins: Max and the Magic Marker is the story of Max, a […]
While the app-loving world eagerly awaits its arrival on 12/15, we’ve been fortunate enough to be playing Toca Boca’s latest gorgeous, multi-touch iOS iPad/iPhone app Toca Kitchen for a couple of weeks now. Known worldwide already for their dazzling Tea Party, Hair Salon (a 12/9 update of which allows for […]
Millie and the Lost Key and Millie Was Here are the digital equivalents of those always-enjoyable Highlights for Kids Magazines; a diverse entertainment bonanza in a tightly wrapped, colorful package. Equal parts story, You Tube animal-videos-gone-viral, and a mini-arcade, the Millie ebooks are so much more than books. The abundant […]
We’re already huge Tales2Go fans here in OWTK-land, having enjoyed hearing American Girl stories, Clifford, Ivy & Bean, and Clementine books, as well as Henry & Mudge tales during our many road trip adventures. Now, just in time for the grueling Holiday travel season, comes the brand new, stand-alone Tales2Go […]
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 […]
