Join Stella and Sam in two more adventures from zinc Roe as they explore the great outdoors. In Backyard at Twilight, Stella and Sam watch bugs, chase fireflies and find constellations in the sky, all watched over by the friendly Night Giant. In Go There Square, Stella introduces Sam to the magic of dandelion clocks,
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Audrey has a dilemma – after a busy day, Bear is lost and Audrey can’t sleep until he is found. The problem is, Audrey has enjoyed such a busy day travelling the world, riding wild ponies, climbing a high mountain, playing with wild jungle animals and searching for hidden treasure that Bear, who has joined
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Viviane Dommann’s beautifully detailed illustrations alone would make this app from Just Kids Apps worth purchasing. However, it not only contains nostalgic images of Christmas, but there are poems, stories, games, handicrafts and recipes hidden behind each window of the Advent Calendar.
There are so many strengths to this sophisticated app from Little Bit Studio that it’s hard to know how to start describing them. 18 carefully designed games provide a range of opportunities to nurture developmental skills, from sorting, shape recognition and sequencing to colour recognition, co-ordination and counting.
Join Stella, Sam and their pet dog Fred in their adventures as they paint pictures (and quite a bit of the floor, too), hunt in fallen leaves and float a pine cone across the lake. Or go with them on a toboggan hunt, stopping just long enough to repair the snowman and find lost toys
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It would be difficult to overstate the fun and learning value of Noodle Words, the first set of active words from Noodleworks. Two very cute Noodle Bugs, Stretch and Squish, actively bring each of 18 verbs to life with their antics. Watch them spin, jump, sparkle and run in their mission to animate words. Change
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These two endearing apps from Auryn are based on the original Miko books by Brigitte Weninger and Stephanie Roehe. Through simple monologues and dialogues, Miko the mouse and his little stuffed friend Mimiki have to make some tricky decisions about patience, honesty and taking responsibility for their actions.
If you want to see a traditional story brought to life in a new way, then this app, from Nosy Crow, is the one for you. Interactive surprises burst from every page, with different dialogue combinations each time you read the story.
This interactive fairy tale app from Nosy Crow doesn’t just raise the bar – it sets new heights with a multimedia extravaganza. Get right inside the app and play alongside the characters. Help Cinderella to clear up the kitchen, or the King to tidy his invitations.
Join Cozmo, the friendly Little Green Dude, on his fully interactive journey through the stars to work. Listen to the story in rhyme, using the slide bar to distort the pitch and speed of the voice – it even works on your own recorded narration.
When you were a young child, did you ever wonder what your toys got up to when you weren’t around? Find out in this evocative app from Auryn, based on Bruno Hachler and Birte Muller’s popular picture books What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Day? and What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Night?
This beautiful and evocative app from the creative developer Auryn is based on the classic children’s book by Laurence Anholt. With great sensitivity, it tells the story of Van Gogh’s 1888 visit to Arles, his empathetic friendship with the Roulin family and the period in which he painted the sunflowers which grew ‘like burning yellow
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Vibrant colours and simple, stylised images capture the reader’s attention from the very first page of this book. Produced by Kids And Beyond, it tells the story of Marcel the bookworm, who shelters from winter storms in an apple. As the weather gets colder, his magical apple spills out books for him to read during
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If you enjoyed Monkey and the Crocodile, produced by Niyaa, then this second story is one for you. It is another tale from the Panchatantra, a fable with a hidden moral. There is a lot to investigate in the parent-child activity page and animal fact hunt, before you start sharing the story itself.
Snow Globes, from See Here Studios, does exactly what it says in the title.Each page is an exquisitely crafted snow globe scene with gently falling snow. Just tilt your device to make the snow bounce and flutter.
To create this app, Goldilocks and the Three Bears is reworked by See Here Studios as Mei Mei and the Three Pandas. The story is set in a bamboo forest and the pandas, who move when they are tickled, eat bamboo leaf porridge, sit in a range of different chairs and sleep in beds which
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Ever got out of bed on the wrong side? This highly creative story app from See Here Studios will show you just some of the things that can go wrong if you do. In 2D or 3D format (the latter of which brings the story to life in a new way), this app uses the
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The bad news: the pirates are coming, with powerful cannon to destroy your defences. The good news: you can protect yourself by firing back, although you do have to build and repair defensive walls with words at the same time. The longer your word, the stronger your defences.
This English/Hindi bilingual app from Niyaa tells a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian fables. The bright, colourful images are immediately attractive and there is a wealth of detail in each picture to promote discussion and explore the deeper moral of the story.
This atmospheric story from Zentric, complete with sounds and minimal narrative, is ideal for anyone with a vivid imagination. It tells the story of a child who is so afraid of the dark that every ordinary sound is re-interpreted in a new and potentially terrifying way. From monsters under the bed to alien abduction, each
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