Everyone has to learn sometime – might as well make the process a little easier with Elmo on your side. Potty Time With Elmo is a new app for iOS that is adapted from the eponymous book, teaching toddlers about the virtues of using the toilet.
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Brainy Fables Gets Kids Thinking in New Ways
There’s no shortage of storybooks out there giving facelifts to old stories, so it’s nice to see Brainy Fables, a collection of brand new fables to get the kids of today thinking critically, while still managing to remain timeless in their content.
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Your Kids and Your iPad Have an Invitation to Elmo’s Birthday Bash
Random House Children’s Books and the Sesame Workshop have joined forces to create Elmo’s Birthday Bash, a new storybook app designed to help improve young learners’ reading skills, and the latest in the “Step into Reading” series of ebooks.
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Get Your Kids Ready for the Avengers With These Stan Lee-Narrated Storybook Apps
May 4th is coming fast, and The Avengers is coming with it. Worried that your kids don’t know enough about some of the greatest superheroes of your day? Get them up to speed with these two new storybook apps from Disney/Marvel. Better yet, they’ll hear the origin stories of their new favorite superheroes straight from the source thanks to narration from Stan Lee.
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Bedtime Stories Collection HD Turns Your iPad Into a Storybook Library
Bedtime Stories Collection HD aims to be the go-to app for new parents who own iPads. The app presents a clean and simple solution to amassing multiple storybooks – by putting them all in one app, rather than selling them as separate apps.
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Oceanhouse Media Releases Storybook Apps for Horton Hatches the Egg and the Berenstain Bears
Oceanhouse Media has a couple of new releases, giving a couple of children’s favorites the app treatment. “The Berenstain Bears’ BIG Bedtime Book” and Dr. Seuss’ “Horton Hatches the Egg” should prove to be great bedtime fodder or backseat entertainment for the young ones.
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Nosy Crow Brings Cinderella and the Three Little Pigs to Life for a New Generation
They call those stories timeless for a reason. Independent app publisher Nosy Crow, a group excelling in producing high quality children’s storybooks in app form, has won Parents’ Choice Gold Awards for their versions of Cinderella and The Three Little Pigs. Judges lauded the new directions taken on both stories, and how they fit perfectly with the kids of today.
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Farfaria Brings the World of Steve Hops and the PearPad 3 to Life in Joey’s Big Jump
Farfaria, a subscription-based app for children’s storybooks on the iPad, is introducing its newest story, “Joey’s Big Jump,” a tribute to the new iPad and the late Steve Jobs.
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Disney Brings Lion King and Tangled Storybook Apps to iOS Devices
Disney wants kids to rediscover the Lion King and Tangled in brand new ways with two new storybook apps for iOS devices – The Lion King: Timon’s Tale and Tangled: Storybook Deluxe. Both storybook apps will feature original animation from their respective movies, along with a host of interactive activities to get fans of the movies engaged.
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Ring in the Year of the Dragon in 3D With this iPad Storybook
Happy new year! Today marks the beginning of the lunar calendar, and for the Chinese zodiac, that means the Year of the Dragon is upon us. To ring in the new year, Mobad Games has released an app version of a kids’ storybook by Oliver Chin. The app is called Year of the Dragon in 3D, and follows a young dragon named Dominic who just wants to join a boat race in the village – much to the dismay of many around him, including his powerful parents.
