The holiday tradition of the Hess Toy Truck continues this year, with a tow truck bringing along a race car, both decked out with the Hess brand and the familiar white and green color scheme (note: if you have not spent any time on the East Coast, this will most likely not be familiar, at all).
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PBS Augments Reality With Fetch! Lunch Rush
PBS has released its first augmented reality game, Fetch! Lunch Rush, on the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch. Based on the popular kids’ show, players will help Ruff Ruffman feed the cast and crew on the set of his new movie.
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Beauty and the Beast: Storybook Deluxe Brings a Complete Disney Experience
Beauty and the Beast: Storybook Deluxe, exclusively for the iPad, allows young children to experience the tale as old as time like never before. At the heart of the app is a rich, detailed storybook that kids can read or listen to with narration.
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All Aboard the Chuggington: Terrific Trainee App
The Chuggington: Terrific Trainee App, from Starz, has pulled into the iTunes App Store. It’s ready to depart, taking young kids on a train adventure they’ll be sure to cherish. The app is based on the CGI-animated Disney Junior show and interactive website that follows the adventure of trainees Wilson, Brewster, and Koko, as they overcome obstacles, both literal and figurative. The show is aimed at social and emotional development for younger children, and the app is no different.
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Kids Can Paint and Learn With Smarty
Paint and Learn Lite, from Alpha Web Plus, is an app for the iPad that provides connect-the-dot and coloring pictures for kids of all ages. The whole process is led by Smarty, and perky feline helper that kids should get a kick out of. Connect-the-dots can be done with numbers or letters, to help teach counting and the alphabet.
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Education Is Sweet as Honey With the Pooh’s Birthday Surprise App
Early learners can now hone their math and language skills with a little help from their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Disney’s Pooh’s Birthday Surprise is an educational app available now for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and guides young children through the story of Pooh’s friends throwing him a surprise bash, complete with tasks focused on vocabulary recognition, reading comprehension, and simple patterns and math problems.
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Crayola ColorStudio HD with iMarker Transforms the iPad into a Coloring Book
Griffin has just announced Crayola ColorStudio HD for the iPad. The Crayola ColorStudio HD is essentially a kit that transforms the iPad into a coloring book of sorts. For starters, the Crayola ColorStudio HD app lets kids have fun while being creative and coloring in artwork. But instead of using their fingers to draw and color, they can use Griffin’s iMarker, which is essentially a marker-shaped digital stylus . With the app and iMarker, Kids can draw with the functionality of a marker, pen, crayon, and even a paintbrush. As a matter of fact, the iMarker can unlock special pictures, animations, sound effects and special effects in the ColorStudio HD…
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Computer Engineer Barbie to Come with an iPhone Plus App!
In a little over 30 days, the highly anticipated Computer Engineer Barbie will finally go on sale. And we just discovered some new additions to this doll. For starters, it looks like Computer Engineer will come with a pink smartphone that certainly resembles an iPhone! To top it all off, you can also download Barbie’s free I Can Be iPhone or iPad App. Computer Engineer Barbie is available for preorder for $12.99.
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AP Stylebook App Now Available for the iPhone
The AP Stylebook takes a while to get used too, and even seasoned journalists have an AP Stylebook on hand. However, you no longer need to kill some trees to learn the AP format. There is now an AP Stylebook app available at the iPhone App store for $28.99. This app features searchable listings for the main, sports, business and punctuation sections, along with the ability to add your own custom entries as well as notes on AP listings. Not only does this app make a great learning tool, but it’s never been easier or more convenient to use the AP format as it is with this app.
