Are mealtimes in your home sometimes a source of conflict rather than fun? If so, then Bo’s Dinnertime, from Heppi (pronounced ‘happy’) is an app for you. Bo, the colourful, cheerful giraffe, will help your child to learn about all the routines of a meal, from shopping through cooking and enjoying delicious food to washing up.
Bo’s Dinnertime
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Pip and Posy: Fun and Games
The creative team at Nosy Crow has done it again – produced an app which shows an intuitive understanding of how young children learn through exploratory play. The title sums up the app perfectly – enjoy a plethora of games with Axel Scheffler’s adorable characters Pip and Posy.
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Randy Kazandy Where are Your Glasses?
Randy Kazandy, a bright, lively and playful child, is determined to win a battle. But so is his Mum. Randy bumps into things, can’t catch balls and walks around in circles. He needs to wear glasses, but what he needs and what he wants are two very different matters. Join Randy and his Mum to find out who wins the battle in this hilarious rhyming story from Auryn.
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Since Lulu Learned the Cancan
Lulu’s brother, from whose perspective the story is told, is having problems with his sister. It all started, he thinks, when she watched a French movie. Since then, she has been unable to stop dancing the cancan, much to the general embarrassment of her family. This hilarious rhyming story from Auryn will delight young readers.
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Flash the Dash
Flash the Dash, written in 1973 by Don Freeman and produced as a story app by Auryn, tells the story of the work-shy dachshund, Flash. He lives with Sashay in a low-slung bungalow in Rocksun. Flash likes to lie-in, so it falls to Shashay to find food. Until one day, when their roles are suddenly reversed.
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The Perilous Pit
This morality tale, from Auryn, should serve as a warning to any careless little girl who discards litter. Katie is such a child. One hot summer day, while she is sitting under a tree, munching her way through a peach and reading a book, she absent-mindedly throws the peach stone over her shoulder and carries on reading. But her thoughtless act sets in motion an impressive train of events.
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Dr Seuss Beginner Book Collection #2
Here is another exceptional opportunity to secure five further whimsical Dr Seuss books with Beginner Book Collection #2. All the accustomed elements that have now become standard with Oceanhouse Media are here, with professional narration, pan and zoom images, 3 reading modes and a faithful reproduction of original art work.
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Horton Hatches the Egg
Lazy Mayzie, a very selfish bird, decides that she is bored with the kinks in her legs caused by sitting on her nest. Seeing the kindly Horton passing, she persuades him, after much debate, to care for her egg. And off she goes for a sunshine vacation, leaving the faithful elephant to sit on her nest through all winds and weathers. Horton looks ridiculous – will anybody notice? And what will become of the egg?
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The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
Explore and think about different shapes in the Dr Seuss app The Shape of Me and Other Stuff from Oceanhouse Media. Colourful silhouettes will not only prompt you to think about the uniqueness of your own shape, but also to ponder the shape of water, why some things can change their shape and why others cannot.
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Super Harry
The gentle story book Super Harry’s Rotten Luck, written by Nina Lim and illustrated by Rebecca Kellie, is published as a story app by PicPocket Books. Join Harry during a terrible week when anything that can go wrong does go wrong. How can so many things happen to one boy in just one week – not just some days, but every single day?
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Royal Little Pest HD
PicPocket Books introduces Prince Hayden MacCheeky, Royal Little Pest, the youngest member of the royal MacCheeky clan. And like all children, he knows just how to annoy his brother and sister. At first, he is amused by their frustration and enjoys their discomfort. But then he finds himself left out of their games – bugging his siblings is suddenly not quite so attractive as he finds that actions have consequences.
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Wubbzy’s Pirate Treasure
Good Talk Apps bring you a new action packed Wubbzy adventure, as he searches for pirate treasure with his friends Daizy, Widget and Walden. But at the end of the quest, after several lively escapades, the treasure turns out to be quite unexpected. Become part of Wubbzy’s Pirate Treasure story as you read along.
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Happipets
Happipets, from creative Milan-based family developers Happi, surpasses its claim to be ‘a learning tool, a game, a visual puzzle and a white canvas for children’s creativity.’ Flip, rotate, turn, resize and combine more than 140 letter shapes to create beasts, pets and fantastic animals. The educational value of this app is quite exceptional.
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Letter Dino
3D Dinoworld from Tizio Publishing with its own forest, river, castle and meadows, is a bright, colourful world inhabited by cute Dino families. But as you explore you will find that all is not well – some Dinos need help with their alphabet and some little Dinos need help with everyday tasks like getting down from the roof.
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My A – Z
This deceptively simple app, from Night and Day Studios, offers so much more than the traditional A-Z flashcards that abound in the world of education. Although the app provides a starting set of commonly used alphabet words, the comparison with other resources stops there. Because once you have explored the basic cards, you can then start to create your own personal word cards.
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A Jazzy Day
A Jazzy Day, Swinging with the Big Band, from The Melody Book is a very special app. With anthropomorphic illustrations often redolent of Richard Scarry’s endearing images, it introduces young children to jazz music, its instruments and its structures. But in subtlety, quality and content, A Jazzy Day goes far beyond a mere introduction.
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Monster Isle in 3D
This comic-style story app introduces you to the world of cryptozoology – the search for animals whose existence is yet to be proved. Join the Summers family on a holiday boat trip which leads to the adventure of a lifetime. Shipwrecked on Monster Isle, you must find a way to escape. But you are in a race to evade some of the most terrifying creatures known to man.
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Who Stole the Moon?
Bertie has a problem. The Moon has disappeared. How will the nocturnal animals be able to go about their normal lives without light? Can Bertie find out where the Moon has gone? This enchanting app from Windy Press, which has also appeared as a print book, is a lovingly crafted and high quality product from beginning to end. Rich language and vibrant, colourful images flood every captivating page.
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The Lost Gorilla – Mom, It’s Me!
A baby gorilla being cared for in a zoo is desperate to get home to her parents in Africa. Your job, as the reader, is to use the Magic Kite to reunite her with her family. This beautifully crafted 12 page story from My Digital Photo Story not only has a facility to personalise each page with your child’s picture, but it also allows you to record your child’s voice to mix into the story.
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The Tortoise and the Hare REMATCH!
Have you ever wondered what happened after Tortoise and Hare finished their race? How did Hare respond to losing? This inventive story app, written by Wallace E. Keller and produced by See Here Studios, extends the famous Aesop fable by suggesting a rematch. Tortoise has become famous; Hare is in therapy with Owl, finding a way to rebuild his dented ego.
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